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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8195152" data-attributes="member: 82524">Except in the lore, this... didn't work.Giant lost everything pretending being big and strong and being bullies was enough. They used to be an empire. They used to rule the world. now they are the losers and everyone kills them for fun and profit. One might argue that Hill Giants, with their dumb Invader Zim style reverence to the Fattest (haha fat jokes!) might be okay with this, but other giant should be smarter than this by now.Okay, so this is a group issue. I don't think playing halflings as joke is really prevalent in the large zeitgeist. D&D tends to make them darker and edgier; Dark Sun cannibals, BoVD nebulous evils, Dragonlance kleptomaniacs and then sad boring kleptomaniacs... I guess the movies gave them all a weed habit, but that makes them more relatable based on current legislative trends, not less.5e's illustrations are an abomination unto the Lord however. I agree. Ironically, the argument for that style was, of course, the ruiner of all things good and fantasy--realism. The idea was that those fetus monsters have 'realistic' proportions for their size. Taste the verisimilitude, I guess.A portion community also hates strange races, traditional races, magic items, magic, dungeons, dragons, and combat, so I wouldn't put much thought into that.</blockquote>