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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8703469" data-attributes="member: 6915329">You mean like a world filled with vicious, intelligent carnivores that regularly break the laws of physics and that don't have nearly enough prey animals to feed on?So? Are you claiming that, unlike every other race in D&amp;D, they are unique in that they evolved?So there are no good-aligned creatures in your world?Because they hadn't. If you want to have harenegons in your setting instead of halflings, go ahead.But it does mean you can't complain that an entire race isn't as fast as the fastest person, or that the presence of feral children somehow means that halflings are humans, or whatever your point was.Well, that's definitely a you problem then. Why do you even play D&amp;D? There are no galactic civilizations in it, even when you bring Spelljammer into account.Because I didn't want a &quot;race of short humans.&quot; I wanted a race of halflings. I wanted a world where humans existed but weren't dominant, or at least don't have huge cities, and I didn't want elves, orcs, or tieflings to have large cities either. And dwarfs live underground so nobody cares about their cities.You seem to be comparing my halflings to some platonic standard of D&amp;D humanity, as if all game races must be treated identically or somehow &quot;better&quot; than the standard. and that's not how things work. Halflings aren't humans, and one world's humans aren't always going to be like another world's humans.So then what's your problem? You're not even running your own game or building your own worlds, so why are you complaining about the worldbuilding.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8703469, member: 6915329"] You mean like a world filled with vicious, intelligent carnivores that regularly break the laws of physics and that don't have nearly enough prey animals to feed on? So? Are you claiming that, unlike every other race in D&D, they are unique in that they evolved? So there are no good-aligned creatures in your world? Because they hadn't. If you want to have harenegons in your setting instead of halflings, go ahead. But it does mean you can't complain that an entire race isn't as fast as the fastest person, or that the presence of feral children somehow means that halflings are humans, or whatever your point was. Well, that's definitely a you problem then. Why do you even play D&D? There are no galactic civilizations in it, even when you bring Spelljammer into account. Because I didn't want a "race of short humans." I wanted a race of halflings. I wanted a world where humans existed but weren't dominant, or at least don't have huge cities, and I didn't want elves, orcs, or tieflings to have large cities either. And dwarfs live underground so nobody cares about their cities. You seem to be comparing my halflings to some platonic standard of D&D humanity, as if all game races must be treated identically or somehow "better" than the standard. and that's not how things work. Halflings aren't humans, and one world's humans aren't always going to be like another world's humans. So then what's your problem? You're not even running your own game or building your own worlds, so why are you complaining about the worldbuilding. [/QUOTE]

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