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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8180146" data-attributes="member: 6704184">All I really want to say to this is...okay. To you they feel that way. I strongly doubt the percentage of dnd players who feel the same is even double digits.I barely have words for how much I absolutely despise this notion. What a direct and expedient way to make halflings a complete waste of page space. If you want to add a culture of halflings to Rashemen that ride goats into battle, wear wood masks with carefully cultivated moss and train ravens to scout for them, and train from childhood to hunt and kill necromancers and their undead servants, go for it! I do stuff like that all the time. However, the iconic halfling culture doesn't have standout warrior traditions, or magical traditions, they just have folks. Their warriors are bounders whose training and gear is very practical and who are just John the Bounder. Their wizards are hedge wizard nerds whose magic is probably most practical with some broad utility up their sleeve, and most magic they'd use to defend their town is magic that was invented for something other than battle, or at least can be used outside of combat. Their adventurers are people who come from a small town that most folk outside of it don't even know is there, or who grew up in a settlement of another race, where they were the Small Folk amongst bigger, louder, less lucky, less likeable, folk. That's who halflings are. That is a good niche. If you don't like it, add to your game worlds on your own, or leave them out.That would actively make the game less good. No. Gods no.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8180146, member: 6704184"] All I really want to say to this is...okay. To you they feel that way. I strongly doubt the percentage of dnd players who feel the same is even double digits. I barely have words for how much I absolutely despise this notion. What a direct and expedient way to make halflings a complete waste of page space. If you want to add a culture of halflings to Rashemen that ride goats into battle, wear wood masks with carefully cultivated moss and train ravens to scout for them, and train from childhood to hunt and kill necromancers and their undead servants, go for it! I do stuff like that all the time. However, the iconic halfling culture doesn't have standout warrior traditions, or magical traditions, they just have folks. Their warriors are bounders whose training and gear is very practical and who are just John the Bounder. Their wizards are hedge wizard nerds whose magic is probably most practical with some broad utility up their sleeve, and most magic they'd use to defend their town is magic that was invented for something other than battle, or at least can be used outside of combat. Their adventurers are people who come from a small town that most folk outside of it [I]don't even know is there[/I], or who grew up in a settlement of another race, where they were the Small Folk amongst bigger, louder, less lucky, less likeable, folk. That's who halflings are. That is a good niche. If you don't like it, add to your game worlds on your own, or leave them out. That would actively make the game less good. No. Gods no. [/QUOTE]

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