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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8188225" data-attributes="member: 6801228">The point is that halfling lore seems to be incomplete, despite how much people want to insist it is perfect with no flaws. Could a farm produce enough food for the family to survive off of? Sure, of course they could. Would that family have glass windows, like we see depicted? Um.. no, to make glass requires a lot of specialized tools and the right materials. It isn't something that can be made anyhere. What about the book we see the grandfather holding in the picture in Mordens? Um... no. Paper production is very difficult, requires a lot of different materials, though they might be able to make their own leather and glue. Those things, like they always did, require trade and contact with the outside world. Heck, let me give you something really really basic. Would you ever tell a halfling player they can't send a letter home to their folks? How does it get there? According to Maxperson and the Book, the few trails that do exist to a halfling village are nearly impossible to find. How does postage reach a village no one can find? The village can be found? Great, then how do they deal with it when dangerous forces find them. Oofta likes to declare that we have no more explanation for how human commoners deal with this than halflings, but we have a lot of circumstantial evidence, even if I can't provide exact setting neutral percetanges of soldiers for every town and village in DnD. But the idea that human towns do have an organized guard force is... well, I guess I should say was fairly uncontroversial. Magistrates and Guards are pretty common in human towns and villages. The King or local lord likely has patrols keeping the roads safe for travelers. The issue is that either halflings are simply protected by the humans, or they are so lucky that they don't need to defend themselves. Both answers lead to problems. Halflings become the only race that can't survive on their own, they require the intervention of others, or they are living in a seperate reality from the other races, so lucky that they simply don't face the same dangers.</blockquote>

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