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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8178443" data-attributes="member: 1125">Err, no, its looking to the source material which is Tolkien, since Halflings didnt exist before Tolkein created them. In that story Tolkien specifically describes the Hobbits as liking to eat and drink “often and heartily”. In LotR they are horrified and openly weep when they learn that the other members of the Fellowship dont know about second breakfast and wont be stopping for a meal break.While you’re right that Halfling grazing might involve many small meals, they at least need to be hearty small meals. Theres also nothing to say they need less calories than humans. If you want to look at real world bipeds then despite being leaner overall Male chimps tend to need more calories than average humans. However humans also appear to burn about 30% more calories per day than chimps (and even more compared to other apes). The extrapolation there is that we cant do a 1:1 comparison between humans and other humanoids and say ‘because they are 50% smaller they need 50% less food” - D&D is silent on how much land is needed to feed a halfing, but what we do know if that in Medieval England peasants often survived on about 15 acres per family (and were often hungry) and ate only one meal per day, why would we assume a Halfling needs less than that amount to feed themselves?</blockquote>