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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8703422" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Racial wanderlust. And since most gaming worlds don't have natural selection (which doesn't select against individuals, anyway), at least not as a driving cause of evolution, there's no reason to assume that going forth and wandering is any more dangerous to a halfling--who can learn to fight or cast spells as well as anyone--than it would be to a human.Remember: the gods created halflings to have wanderlust. They didn't evolve with it.If they have a Good alignment, then they do Good things for non-selfish reasons.Halflings don't build huge cities. They build hidden, mostly-underground warrens. Halflings are excellantly suited for suited for such an environment.Most cases of feral children are myths (particularly in the cases of children raised by animals) or the result of extreme abuse, and usually a combination of both. Those are outliers. And humans are, quite frankly, born to be human.So because the humans don't have big cities and have a lower level of technology, they must suck? Wow.Anyway, you wanted to know what made them different than humans. That's how. Is it somehow better if the humans have the big cities and all the other races are low-tech? It certainly seems less imaginative to me.If you run a game, you have a world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8703422, member: 6915329"] Racial wanderlust. And since most gaming worlds don't have natural selection (which doesn't select against individuals, anyway), at least not as a driving cause of evolution, there's no reason to assume that going forth and wandering is any more dangerous to a halfling--who can learn to fight or cast spells as well as anyone--than it would be to a human. Remember: the gods created halflings to have wanderlust. They didn't evolve with it. If they have a Good alignment, then they do Good things for non-selfish reasons. Halflings don't build huge cities. They build hidden, mostly-underground warrens. Halflings are excellantly suited for suited for such an environment. Most cases of feral children are myths (particularly in the cases of children raised by animals) or the result of extreme abuse, and usually a combination of both. Those are outliers. And humans are, quite frankly, born to be human. So because the humans don't have big cities and have a lower level of technology, they must suck? Wow. Anyway, you wanted to know what made them different than humans. That's how. Is it somehow better if the humans have the big cities and all the other races are low-tech? It certainly seems less imaginative to me. If you run a game, you have a world. [/QUOTE]

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