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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bedir than" data-source="post: 8176682" data-attributes="member: 6789971">With all the discussion about accessibility and representation these days I want to bring up how I came to understand why representation matters.During my 1e/2e playing days I was at most a 4'6 under 100 pound kid who was always the smallest kid in school, to include places where I was three+ years older than other students (middle school specifically, and even tinier than above).I always played halflings and gnomes. It took me until recently to understand that part of the appeal was specifically because they were heroes that were small. As someone who could never, ever be an athlete, I could play someone athletic and heroic. I could mimic Bilbo and become greater than my peoples say I could be.Without this representation would I have gone on to join the US Army and eventually serving in 5th Special Forces Group? Probably not. Because the representation of the tiny heroes is part of what helped me believe in myself.Don't remove halflings and gnomes because you don't understand them. You're closing off stories that other people at your tables will understand, and need.</blockquote>