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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gammadoodler" data-source="post: 8821819" data-attributes="member: 6914290">Their initial point was..this is how humans are described in the PHB, with an accurate summary of the PHB Human write-upYour response was.. "yeah..but humans are also a lot of other things that are not described in the PHB" (you gave examples of wanting to live lives of good food and comfort..)They also made the point that halflings are described a certain way in the PHB, and included an accurate summary of the PHB write-up for Halflings.The extra-PHB characteristics you pulled in and ascribed to D&D Humans coincide with some of those from the PHB Hafling description.Your conclusion was that by failing to bring in the non-PHB Human stuff that you brought in, they were failing to fully capture D&D Humans, making them "inhuman".And this was all in service of an upstream conclusion that D&D Halflings are "too human" because they feature some extra-PHB human characteristics.The fullness of my disagreement with you is that you claimed they were overstating human characteristics from the PHB, when, in fact, they were describing those characteristics accurately. We've since gone on to discuss the value of the PHB description and whether it makes sense for it to exclude the extra characteristics you brought in, and/or the many others that can come from an understanding of real world humanity.If your ultimate contention is that D&D Humans aren't "human" if they fail to bring in all that extra stuff. And that Halflings are "too human" by having too many of those extra-PHB "human" characteristics, then your position is exactly as I have described.The other part of this is..Simultaneously, in other strands of conversation, when someone describes their experience or interpretations of halflings, your response has frequently been "well that's just your thing" accompanied by a dismissive "good for you" followed by a "but halflings need to be fixed in the game, not just your setting".Thus the hypocrisy.</blockquote>

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