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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8807670" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>That....isn't a meaningful difference, though. It's a matter of whether Tooks or Proudfoots are more common in the populace.</p><p></p><p>4e tried too hard to give every race a culture, but mechanically they're still just stealthy lucky little guys. 3e IIRC only had the luck thing in fluff, and 5e tried to put stealth into one type of halfling, but they're all about as different as the subraces of halfling in 5e are from eachother.</p><p></p><p>edit: and the playtest halfling has proficiency in stealth, which is boring, but at least more to the point, and halfling stealthiness is literally as old as The Hobbit. </p><p></p><p>regardless, any changes will be within the scope of the last 20 years of halflings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8807670, member: 6704184"] That....isn't a meaningful difference, though. It's a matter of whether Tooks or Proudfoots are more common in the populace. 4e tried too hard to give every race a culture, but mechanically they're still just stealthy lucky little guys. 3e IIRC only had the luck thing in fluff, and 5e tried to put stealth into one type of halfling, but they're all about as different as the subraces of halfling in 5e are from eachother. edit: and the playtest halfling has proficiency in stealth, which is boring, but at least more to the point, and halfling stealthiness is literally as old as The Hobbit. regardless, any changes will be within the scope of the last 20 years of halflings. [/QUOTE]
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