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<blockquote data-quote="Mind of tempest" data-source="post: 8702726" data-attributes="member: 7029233"><p>but they lack almost any no humanness they are literally just a short person.</p><p></p><p>I do not expect halflings at all.</p><p></p><p>no, they are just one of those people who love star-crossed lovers and detailed family histories yet have not figured out that any race can do it.</p><p></p><p>I do not see your point, really good in one area means you can explore it but does not necessitate it, also you could play a young elf of very old parents thus they have to deal with people very out of sync with everything besides can is not should.</p><p>my point is halfling offer nothing at all different from humans in any way that can make things interesting so why have them?</p><p></p><p>an uninteresting short shopkeeper whose life can at best be a list of happy moments does not add anything as those have no relevance to a story who can be safely robbed as they are fundamentally a nobody.</p><p></p><p>everyone is overlooked regardless of height it does not work as a defence mechanism against sapient foes, it only works on large predators if you are fast or too small to eat thus it is pointless for the small and overlooked get crushed under the boots of others to pretend otherwise is to believe in five side triangle or married bachelors the ontologically illegal the impossible to conceive off.</p><p></p><p>the richness of the world does not depend on our awareness only on if the life form is necessary to the wider world, given how halflings are described their absence would take years to even notice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mind of tempest, post: 8702726, member: 7029233"] but they lack almost any no humanness they are literally just a short person. I do not expect halflings at all. no, they are just one of those people who love star-crossed lovers and detailed family histories yet have not figured out that any race can do it. I do not see your point, really good in one area means you can explore it but does not necessitate it, also you could play a young elf of very old parents thus they have to deal with people very out of sync with everything besides can is not should. my point is halfling offer nothing at all different from humans in any way that can make things interesting so why have them? an uninteresting short shopkeeper whose life can at best be a list of happy moments does not add anything as those have no relevance to a story who can be safely robbed as they are fundamentally a nobody. everyone is overlooked regardless of height it does not work as a defence mechanism against sapient foes, it only works on large predators if you are fast or too small to eat thus it is pointless for the small and overlooked get crushed under the boots of others to pretend otherwise is to believe in five side triangle or married bachelors the ontologically illegal the impossible to conceive off. the richness of the world does not depend on our awareness only on if the life form is necessary to the wider world, given how halflings are described their absence would take years to even notice. [/QUOTE]
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