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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8194337" data-attributes="member: 6906155">That's because WotC are dodging round another Tolkien Estate lawsuit. What you need to know about Halflings is in Concerning Hobbits, but that is what WotC simply cannot include.You clearly haven't read LotR, They are not a &quot;narrative ploy&quot; - Tolkien was not a professional writer, he was a PTSD academic. Tolkien identified himself and the ordinary British Soldiers in the trenches with hobbits. They didn't want to be there &quot;adventuring&quot;, they wanted to be at home with their families tending their gardens, and it was the memory of home that kept them going. They where &quot;small&quot; because the events they where caught up in made the feel small, but they had to believe that what they where doing mattered, despite their littleness.Different?- no, Halflings are the ordinary folk, it is &quot;the big people&quot; who are different.As for the base tone, you seem to be fixated on the idea that D&amp;D must be Grimdark. You can play it Grimdark if you want, but that is certainly not the &quot;base tone&quot;. In my experience the &quot;base tone&quot; of D&amp;D is much more Guardians of the Galaxy than Tolkien, never mind Game of Thrones.Err, no. you can find the idea that dwarves are a joke going way back before fandom. We have Rumpelstiltskin, Disney's seven dwarves, it's even in The Hobbit, although Tolkien writes Gimli straight in LotR, even if Jackson doesn't in the movie.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 8194337, member: 6906155"] That's because WotC are dodging round another Tolkien Estate lawsuit. What you need to know about Halflings is in [I]Concerning Hobbits[/I], but that is what WotC simply [B]cannot[/B] include. You clearly haven't read LotR, They are not a "narrative ploy" - Tolkien was not a professional writer, he was a PTSD academic. Tolkien identified himself and the ordinary British Soldiers in the trenches with hobbits. They didn't want to be there "adventuring", they wanted to be at home with their families tending their gardens, and it was the memory of home that kept them going. They where "small" because the events they where caught up in made the feel small, but they had to believe that what they where doing mattered, despite their littleness. Different?- no, Halflings are the ordinary folk, it is "the big people" who are different. As for the base tone, you seem to be fixated on the idea that D&D must be Grimdark. You can play it Grimdark if you want, but that is certainly not the "base tone". In my experience the "base tone" of D&D is much more [I]Guardians of the Galaxy[/I] than Tolkien, never mind Game of Thrones. Err, no. you can find the idea that dwarves are a joke going way back before fandom. We have Rumpelstiltskin, Disney's seven dwarves, it's even in [I]The Hobbit[/I], although Tolkien writes Gimli straight in LotR, even if Jackson doesn't in the movie. [/QUOTE]

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