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why do we have halflings and gnomes?
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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 8177694" data-attributes="member: 63508"><p>Again I am not saying they are a bad PC race.</p><p>I am saying halfling are written like an NPC nonplayable race..</p><p>And when 3e and 4e tried to make the default image not a passive bucolic farmer who does jack squat, 5e reverted it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's not A to B. It's B to A.</p><p></p><p>D&D, to me, needs to pull out 90% of the hobbit out the halfling. Hobbittowns and shires are silly in a world where 50 miles into the wilderness is hordes of primitive warriors, evil cults, monstrous beasts, crazy fey, amess of undead, portals to other planes, and selflish greedy dragons.</p><p></p><p>If halflings are going to be an iconic and frontfacing race for D&D, it should at least look like one that would exist in a world with Army of Evil Humainods #17 exists in every forest. The default assumptions of D&D isn't Middle Earth. Halfling might have to change a bit to match the new genre. Halflings feel like square peg round hole in D&D in 3/5th editions.</p><p></p><p>Just start at Fallohides and move from there. Curiousity is not going to make you <strong>slay 50 orcs, dodge 10 death traps, risk your sanity, watch your friends die, kill a dragon, and loot a lair for gold.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 8177694, member: 63508"] Again I am not saying they are a bad PC race. I am saying halfling are written like an NPC nonplayable race.. And when 3e and 4e tried to make the default image not a passive bucolic farmer who does jack squat, 5e reverted it. It's not A to B. It's B to A. D&D, to me, needs to pull out 90% of the hobbit out the halfling. Hobbittowns and shires are silly in a world where 50 miles into the wilderness is hordes of primitive warriors, evil cults, monstrous beasts, crazy fey, amess of undead, portals to other planes, and selflish greedy dragons. If halflings are going to be an iconic and frontfacing race for D&D, it should at least look like one that would exist in a world with Army of Evil Humainods #17 exists in every forest. The default assumptions of D&D isn't Middle Earth. Halfling might have to change a bit to match the new genre. Halflings feel like square peg round hole in D&D in 3/5th editions. Just start at Fallohides and move from there. Curiousity is not going to make you [B]slay 50 orcs, dodge 10 death traps, risk your sanity, watch your friends die, kill a dragon, and loot a lair for gold.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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