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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3803372" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think the question and any answer to it you offer debunks itself.The Tolkien 'Hobbit' is in fact a sub-race of humans which is confined to small regional location with what is more or less a monoculture which is roughly congruent to the breadth of culture in an idealized rural England.  And this is perfectly fine and realistic for the setting.But in virtually every D&D setting that includes Tolkien inspired 'Halflings', the Halfling is a full fledged setting spanning race.  Therefore, it is in opinion wholly and completely unrealistic to assume that the cultural, ethnic, and individual variaty in the race should be limited to just that of Tolkien tropes, or just the kender-rogueling, or just the elf-ling of 3rd edition.  Any reasonable interpretation of a full fledged race would give them at least the breadth of cultural ethnic diversity found in New Guinea cannibals, Beduoin nomads, Scottish highlanders, Chinese empires, Greek city states, Polynesian sea-farers, Inuit ice fishers, North American mound building subsistance farmers, and so forth.  Otherwise, what you are dealing with is no more than the fantasy equivalent of a 'planet of hats'.  In my opinion, the presence of sleek elflings, and kender-esk rogues, and wild haired halfling cannibals should not preclude the notion that their is a large population of tweed wearing corpulant halfling rural farmers politely minding tea kettles and concerning themselves principally with geneology, gossip, pipes, and groceries.  I refuse to put a free-willed race in one hat and leave it at that. For the record, I've read LotR 18 times cover to cover, and you'd scarsely find a bigger Tolkien fan than me.  I love Tolkien's portrayal of Hobbits.  But I dropped Halflings from my homebrew simply because I wasn't trying to recreate the LotR and they didn't really fit into what ended up becoming my cosmology.</blockquote>

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