Sagiro's Story Hour Returns (new thread started on 5/18/08)

[Aravis]

But I was talking about the dwarven tunnels. We are trying to find a way through to get to a jungle on the other side. In the jungle we hope to find a magical item called the Crosser's Maze. We don't know where it is, or even what it is. But our bosses need it, so here we are.

Sigh...we were so naive...

-- Aravis

 

[Dinkeldog]

I liked the info on the food. Definitely what's nearest to a halfling's heart.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Whenever I read Ernie, he comes over absolutely as "old school hobbit", rather than the gypsy toddlers with amazing strength that 3e portrays as halflings

I think that a lot is missed by not having the home-and-hearth loving little folk who are nonetheless doughty when roused!

 

[KidCthulhu]

I agree with you completely, Plane. 3e halflings are one of my only gripes with the system. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Ernie is definitely a halfling in the Tolkein-y sense. He was created to be 75% Sam and 25% Frodo (all the mysticism, none of the whining). I'm glad you like him. He's a role playing challenge for me. It's hard not to get the dirty jokes, to never swear, and to be nice to people all the time. If it weren't for that "doughy when roused", I'd probably go mad.

 

[Fade]

If it weren't for that "doughy when roused", I'd probably go mad.

Ernie always seemed relatively brave to me. Oh well, halflings.

 

[Ciaran]

If it weren't for that "doughy when roused", I'd probably go mad.

Given that he's a cook, I suppose this makes sense. Perhaps this is the Yondallan form of transubstantiation?

- Eric

 

[Aravis]

I agree with you completely, Plane. 3e halflings are one of my only gripes with the system. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Ernie is definitely a halfling in the Tolkein-y sense. He was created to be 75% Sam and 25% Frodo (all the mysticism, none of the whining). I'm glad you like him. He's a role playing challenge for me. It's hard not to get the dirty jokes, to never swear, and to be nice to people all the time. If it weren't for that "doughy when roused", I'd probably go mad.

Gee, and I thought he was 50% Sam, 25% Frodo, and 25% Frito...

I agree completely about 3E halflings though. I much prefer the somewhat unwilling adventurer, yet perfectly suited for it when they actually make it out into the big wide world model of hobbit.


(oh yeah, and Pudgy not svelt!)

-- Aravis

 

[Plane Sailing]

(oh yeah, and Pudgy not svelt!)

Exactly! The skinny new halflings look like humans with some strange photographic effect to shrink them (OK, that's forgetting the bizarre egg-shaped head too )

It seems to me that Kender were much more of the role-models for this new breed of halfling - and I think they would have been better to have bitten the bullet and created a new race like the kender and allowed the good old hobbit/halfling to continue as he was. Ten square meals a day, that's what REAL hobbits are about!

Plane (born to be a hobbit) Sailing

 

[KidCthulhu]

Kender, blaugh. Kleptos with ponytails.

 

[KidCthulhu]

Ernie's Diary Continues...

The tunnels are full of ogres, and creatures we call Low Slung Lightning Lizards. There was also a creature that turned some of us to stone, but we got better.

The ogres aren't very happy to see us and they chased us for a long time. We finally had to stop and confront them. It was a very hard fight. Aravis got picked up by an ogre & made into a mage sandwich. (You haven't met Aravis. He's very nice. His parents all got killed by bugbears, and sometimes he's very sad. He has a nice grey cat named Peweter. I'll introduce him when we come back.)

Luckily for Aravis, Dranko (you remember Dranko. He's the rude one, but his heart's in the right place. He and Morningstar are going to get married, although they don't know it yet. Dranko almost married Kay, but they didn't really love eachother, so they didn't) was sharing his wounds, so Aravis didn't die.