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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8709187" data-attributes="member: 6801228">If you can't see Faolyn's post, the thing that led me to them being the source of small moments of good and triumph was this line: &quot;And halflings are, by definition, small moments of good and triumph.&quot; They don't have to be exclusive for it to be a problem. Unicorns aren't exclusively the only good-aligned, horned, horse-like Celestial. But they are by definition good-aligned, horned, horse-like celestials, and so they have all of those traits. If Halflings are, by definition, good then we have run face-first into the same exact problem you get when you make goblins, by defintion, evil. And, I think it is starkly telling that people will go forth and say things like &quot;Halflings are by definition small moments of good and truimph&quot; or &quot;Halflings are the race that care about other people more than the other races&quot; and it is only when someone points out what that means if taken at face value that they then back-pedal and say that you are taking their points too literally, and halflings aren't like, perfect. And that's their counter-argument. Not that their initial post was wrong, they believe that, but that you taking what they said and applying to the same degree you apply racial traits to other races, is wrong and extreme and only done because you hate halflings. (Tangent: Pfft, and isn't that hilarious for the Mary Sue angle. Everyone who doesn't like halflings are evil villains who just hate them because they are [insert reasoning here]. Seriously, I can't even make this up to this degree. Sigh Laughing over, let me be clear. No, I don't think that anyone has flat out called me an evil villain. I've just been repeatedly attacked via ad hominems and told that this is all a me problem, because halflings are fine, I'm the one who has the problem)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8709187, member: 6801228"] If you can't see Faolyn's post, the thing that led me to them being the source of small moments of good and triumph was this line: "[B][I]And halflings are, by definition, small moments of good and triumph.[/I][/B]" They don't have to be exclusive for it to be a problem. Unicorns aren't exclusively the only good-aligned, horned, horse-like Celestial. But they are by definition good-aligned, horned, horse-like celestials, and so they have all of those traits. If Halflings are, by definition, good then we have run face-first into the same exact problem you get when you make goblins, by defintion, evil. And, I think it is starkly telling that people will go forth and say things like "Halflings are by definition small moments of good and truimph" or "Halflings are the race that care about other people more than the other races" and it is only when someone points out what that means if taken at face value that they then back-pedal and say that you are taking their points too literally, and halflings aren't like, perfect. And that's their counter-argument. Not that their initial post was wrong, they believe that, but that you taking what they said and applying to the same degree you apply racial traits to other races, is wrong and extreme and only done because you hate halflings. (Tangent: Pfft, and isn't that hilarious for the Mary Sue angle. Everyone who doesn't like halflings are evil villains who just hate them because they are [insert reasoning here]. Seriously, I can't even make this up to this degree. [I]Sigh[/I] Laughing over, let me be clear. No, I don't think that anyone has flat out called me an evil villain. I've just been repeatedly attacked via ad hominems and told that this is all a me problem, because halflings are fine, I'm the one who has the problem) [/QUOTE]

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