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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aloïsius" data-source="post: 3804977" data-attributes="member: 1191">Looking for danger is not adventuring. Adventurers are not looking for dangers. They are looking for gold. They are looking for the unknown. They are looking to fight for a cause. None of those behavior sound hobity, while it's indeed a constant of human behavior. Sure, not all humans show this behavior. But a lot of them. Same thing about war, science or arts. Think about the people who created the USA. Think about the crusades, think about Gengis Khan and Magellan, think about Isaac Newton, Darwin or Livingstone. Could you see them as hobbits ? Thousands of them at each generation ? Frodo and his compagnons were the exception, the unbelievable, exception. Adventurers in human society are not unbelievable : they just are the minority. You forget that human history is only 5 or 6 thousand year old. And that humans exist since... 90 000 years ? Among them, the vast majority were a nomadic existance. Our  ancestors crossed the bering straight, colonised Australia, followed mammoths in Siberia, settled the jungle of Amazonia, the Island of the Pacific and the heigths of Himalaya. The hobbits live in the shire and in Bree. If the majority of human beeing are now sedentary, that's because being nomad is not possible anymore (just look at the gipsy...). The Earth is full, while the middle earth is empty. Anyway, hobbits are not human, they are not an adventuring race, and their flavor is so closely tied to Tolkien work that I don't want them in my game (and I don't want noldor or immortal perfect celestial elves neither... I hope the eladrins are not that)Hobbits are not D&D. They are MERP.</blockquote>

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