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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8187261" data-attributes="member: 93670">&quot;my campaign assuming halflings grow their own spices&quot; is a reasonable level of abstraction for one's&nbsp; suspension of disbelief to swallow, but that's not how halflings grow pepper &amp;&nbsp; harvest silk&nbsp; came up.&nbsp; It came up because halflings morphed into some kind of happy go lucky hobbit who liked a generous meal that is also an ascetic monk shunning spices like salt&amp; pepper who does and does not engage in trade while living far from roads and randomly traversing through the forest on foot without a cart or wagon in nonrepeating random routes to avoid forming trails a bandit ranger could find as if those halflings were in serious fear of death squads or adventurers looking to carve them up for luck glands over the idea that the d&amp;d world would be at least as dangerous as our world was at a similar point in development.&nbsp; We past the point of reasonable abstraction long before&nbsp; pepper even came up when there was an attempt to dismiss two posters who raised two different points in good faith discussion by painting a picture that made Anne Frank sound downright reckless living in an attic.&nbsp; It's a bit late to point at where pepper grows suddenly being a line too far in that trail of dismissal while ignoring the unknowable alien world of starfish aliens being drawn.[USER=7015332]@PsyzhranV2[/USER] eberron &amp; darksun style halflings have come up a few times, usually in respect to how the whole problem would have been avoided were the phb not so setting exclusive because they are so different &amp; the shire halflings could be shrugged off by pointing at them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8187261, member: 93670"] "my campaign assuming halflings grow their own spices" is a [I]reasonable[/I] level of abstraction for one's suspension of disbelief to swallow, but that's not how halflings grow pepper & harvest silk came up. It came up because halflings morphed into some kind of happy go lucky hobbit who liked a generous meal that is also an ascetic monk shunning spices like salt& pepper who does and does not engage in trade while living far from roads and randomly traversing through the forest on foot without a cart or wagon in nonrepeating random routes to avoid forming trails a bandit ranger could find as if those halflings were in serious fear of death squads or adventurers looking to carve them up for luck glands over the idea that the d&d world would be at least as dangerous as our world was at a similar point in development. We past the point of [I]reasonable[/I] abstraction long before pepper even came up when there was an attempt to dismiss two posters who raised two different points in good faith discussion by painting a picture that made Anne Frank sound downright reckless living in an attic. It's a bit late to point at where pepper grows suddenly being a line too far in that trail of dismissal while ignoring the unknowable alien world of starfish aliens being drawn. [USER=7015332]@PsyzhranV2[/USER] eberron & darksun style halflings have come up a few times, usually in respect to how the whole problem would have been avoided were the phb not so setting exclusive because they are so different & the shire halflings could be shrugged off by pointing at them. [/QUOTE]

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