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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8819458" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Like what? Because I literally can't think of a thing these races have done that humans haven't done.Humans, in real-life, can build amazing contraptions like gnomes (look at any clockwork or Rube Goldburg device), can carve mountains into amazing sculptures and cities like dwarfs (check out any number of huge monuments, or the City of Petra, or the Pyramids), bend living trees into amazing sculptures like elves (living sculptures, tree shaping, bonzai), and... go to war and act like bandits like goblins and orcs. Assuming you're going for traditional, monstrous goblins and orcs, of course. Literally the only things that elves, dwarfs, gnomes, goblins, and orcs have done that humans haven't are things that involve magic or setting-specific supernatural beings.If you can't find the fantastical among the halflings, it's because you're not looking in the right places. Halfling fantastical-ness lies in their general peacefulness (or at least lack of waging wars), their hominess, their cooking, their cheeriness, even in the face of disaster, their ability to get along with others, things like that.In a D&D world, humans typically don't build amazing contraptions as well as the gnomes do, don't carve stone like the dwarfs do, and don't engage in tree-shaping like elves do. And they often don't even do as much banditry and (pointless) war as goblins and orcs do. Which means that humans aren't quite as good at cooking as halflings are, aren't as good at hospitality as halflings are, have a harder time staying in good cheer during bad times than halflings do, and are generally less congenial and accepting of others than halflings are. This doesn't even mean that game-humans are worse than real-humans are in these areas--there are going to be really good human chefs and humans who can smile in the worst of times, just like there are humans who are amazing stonemasons and humans that are great inventors. It just means that halflings are better. Sorry that's not flashy or combat-effective for you, but nobody said every racial stereotype has to be used with dice.</blockquote>

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