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<blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 5994419" data-attributes="member: 16760">If I may be permitted a facetious response to the thread title:&nbsp; Has anyone considered that the average halfling is at eye level with the average human's groin?&nbsp; I'm just sayin'. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />TrippyHippy, we get you don't like the rule.&nbsp; But there's no need to be dismissive of other people's points.&nbsp; My own knowledge of history (and of Tolkien) backs up Ferratus here.&nbsp; Even the peaceful hobbits gave Sharkey's gang quite a go of things.And I don't quite think that 'ad hominem' means what you think it means.&nbsp; Ad hominem is a fallacy when it is used in place of substantive argument.&nbsp; For example, if someone says, &quot;Your argument is invalid because you are a white male,&quot; or &quot;a jerk,&quot; or &quot;because you eat your boogers,&quot; or even &quot;because you're just trying to win the argument,&quot; as you did to Ferratus, that's a fallacy.But when someone says, &quot;Based on your expressed preferences, D&amp;D may not be the game you'd enjoy the most,&quot; that is not an ad hominem fallacy at all.&nbsp; They might still be wrong, mind you!&nbsp; But it's not fallacious reasoning.&nbsp; Reasoning can be completely sound, and yet still reach a wrong conclusion - because it depends on the truth of one's premises.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Shadow, post: 5994419, member: 16760"] If I may be permitted a facetious response to the thread title: Has anyone considered that the average halfling is at eye level with the average human's groin? I'm just sayin'. :) TrippyHippy, we get you don't like the rule. But there's no need to be dismissive of other people's points. My own knowledge of history (and of Tolkien) backs up Ferratus here. Even the peaceful hobbits gave Sharkey's gang quite a go of things. And I don't quite think that 'ad hominem' means what you think it means. Ad hominem is a fallacy when it is used in place of substantive argument. For example, if someone says, "Your argument is invalid because you are a white male," or "a jerk," or "because you eat your boogers," or even "because you're just trying to win the argument," as you did to Ferratus, that's a fallacy. But when someone says, "Based on your expressed preferences, D&D may not be the game you'd enjoy the most," that is not an ad hominem fallacy at all. They might still be wrong, mind you! But it's not fallacious reasoning. Reasoning can be completely sound, and yet still reach a wrong conclusion - because it depends on the truth of one's premises. [/QUOTE]

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