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<blockquote data-quote="Gammadoodler" data-source="post: 8708819" data-attributes="member: 6914290">Motivations are internal to characters. You don't have to say &quot;these are the good boys&quot;. You just describe what they do, which on average would be things you think are good. Players and other forces within the setting can interpret the motives however they like.And reasonable people often disagree about how to &quot;be good&quot;. Halfling can easily employ the &quot;give a fish&quot; brand of goodness on a grand scale, without ever &quot;teaching how to fish&quot; or vice versa. Such a disagreement can occur between factions in the setting or between PCs at the table without compromising either party's &quot;goodness&quot;.As far as what any race would &quot;likely&quot; be, that is defined between the rulebook and the DM. The rulebooks say what the designers' expectations are for them and the DM interprets how that fits in the setting they are using and adjusts as necessary. At the end of the day, it comes more down to the DMs personal set of values than anything else.Halflings are smaller, not weaker. There is nothing implicit or explicit within the PHB that suggests they'd fight poorly and a fair amount within the PHP to suggest the contrary.Edit: The funny thing is, the way you describe halflings is actually more similar to the PHB description for elves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gammadoodler, post: 8708819, member: 6914290"] Motivations are internal to characters. You don't have to say "these are the good boys". You just describe what they do, which on average would be things you think are good. Players and other forces within the setting can interpret the motives however they like. And reasonable people often disagree about [I][B]how[/B][/I] to "be good". Halfling can easily employ the "give a fish" brand of goodness on a grand scale, without ever "teaching how to fish" or vice versa. Such a disagreement can occur between factions in the setting or between PCs at the table without compromising either party's "goodness". As far as what any race would "likely" be, that is defined between the rulebook and the DM. The rulebooks say what the designers' expectations are for them and the DM interprets how that fits in the setting they are using and adjusts as necessary. At the end of the day, it comes more down to the DMs personal set of values than anything else. Halflings are smaller, not weaker. There is nothing implicit or explicit within the PHB that suggests they'd fight poorly and a fair amount within the PHP to suggest the contrary. Edit: The funny thing is, the way you describe halflings is actually more similar to the PHB description for elves. [/QUOTE]

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