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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8183228" data-attributes="member: 6801845">If you had monster mania 24X7, the odds of most races as written surviving as written would be slim or none.  If halflings were as helpless to defend themselves as rabbits, there wouldn't be any more rabbits.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure    :unsure:"  data-smilie="24"data-shortname=":unsure:" />  The problem with that is that there are still plenty of rabbits, even though they have many predators.So what am I getting at?  Well, rabbits are still viable because of a high birth rate and adaptations that allow them to survive.  Same with all "prey" species.  If we assume that the monster races are "predator" races then there has to be  balance between predator and prey or there would be no more prey. If there are no more prey and the predator races can't sustain themselves,  there wouldn't be any more predators either.  If orcs live by raiding, if they raid too much they will starve and they will cease to exist.This is kind of like the old philosophical question "How do I know I exist".  Much like "I think, therefore I am" if you want halflings to exist in your world then the answer is "They exist, therefore they have strategies for survival".  If you think they shouldn't survive because all of them are camping in the monster land wilderness (which they are not according to the lore) then don't have halflings in your campaign.  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Most people don't have a problem with halflings as written.  Just because they are elves or dwarves does not mean they are defenseless, they have developed strategies to survive. Those strategies aren't spelled out because they aren't spelled out for any race and will vary from campaign to campaign because most campaigns aren't "monster world".</blockquote>

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