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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8182766" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Not nearly extreme enough for Grimdark, and I can't fathom why you think it would be boring. Again, I brought up that trope because it is such a massively human trope. I live in the Midwest and I studied American Lit., it is everywhere in my life. And halflings don't move beyond that trope in a meaningful way. And, if there are militaries protecting that land, then it isn't as the halflings are presented in the book. Again, unless everyone's assumption is that halflings live deep in the center of human kingdoms where none of the normal dangers of DnD can reach, then Halflings need to have more defenses than we are told they have. And also, it is starting to bother me how... easily people are willing to turn the halflings into a protectorate race. More and more people seem to want them to be a race that needs to be protected by their larger and stronger neighbors. I'd be much happier with a write-up that allows the halflings to protect themselves, to live and travel on their own terms and not rely on the strength of their bigger, stronger neighbors to survive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8182766, member: 6801228"] Not nearly extreme enough for Grimdark, and I can't fathom why you think it would be boring. Again, I brought up that trope because it is such a massively human trope. I live in the Midwest and I studied American Lit., it is everywhere in my life. And halflings don't move beyond that trope in a meaningful way. And, if there are militaries protecting that land, then it isn't as the halflings are presented in the book. Again, unless everyone's assumption is that halflings live deep in the center of human kingdoms where none of the normal dangers of DnD can reach, then Halflings need to have more defenses than we are told they have. And also, it is starting to bother me how... easily people are willing to turn the halflings into a protectorate race. More and more people seem to want them to be a race that needs to be protected by their larger and stronger neighbors. I'd be much happier with a write-up that allows the halflings to protect themselves, to live and travel on their own terms and not rely on the strength of their bigger, stronger neighbors to survive. [/QUOTE]

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