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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonhelm" data-source="post: 3803335" data-attributes="member: 3867">While mechanically the halfling of 3e is designed for adventure, I never felt that there was a reason to play one.  They always came across to me as short humans.  They don't have their own unique look, save for being smaller.  Truthfully, I have never felt that the 3e halfling had an identity all its own.  I see where they took elements of other halfling-like races (notably kender) and implemented them.  For example, they adopted the kender fearlessness to a degree since that stereotype is more inclined to adventure than a hobbit is.  Yet the adventuring hobbit is not the average hobbit.  Does this mean the hobbit is the way to go?  Well, not necessarily.  The hobbit has a lot more flavor, but I can see there being intellectual property issues with the Tolkien estate, especially after the popularity of the movies.I do think, though, that some efforts should have been made to keep halflings closer to their roots.  Curly hair and hairy feet that don't need shoes being among them.  And truthfully, I love the shire type of atmosphere.  There could have been some development without treading too far away from their hobbity roots.What I sort of envision as what the 3e halfling should have been is this great pic by Claudio Pozas:<img src="http://www.enworld.org/Pozas/Pictures/Races/hling_male.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Now, maybe he could have had the hairy feet (and perhaps he does under those boots!), but this looks like a halfling to me.  While it is obviously influenced by its roots, it is modernized as well, providing a great archetype for the race.Of course, from what I've seen of the 4e halfling art (and those nasty braids - blech!), I'm not quite certain I will like the 4e halfling.To each their own, of course.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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