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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8196196" data-attributes="member: 6801228">You know, I keep looking inside the PHB, the part where they list all the people who helped design the game. Tolkien isn't mentioned once.So, I get it, to you halflings and hobbits are the exact same people with the exact same lore and Sauron is a DnD character. But to the rest of us, Tolkien =/= DnD. And, if I had to make a guess, saying that halflings use bows isn't going to have the Tolkien estate suing for damages. I have no idea where you even got the idea of hobbits being archers, so I doubt the connection is so strong. And if it is? Then Halflings, due to their small size, could use Crossbows. Or slings. But instead, as I have repeated and posted and repeated and posted and repeated and posted, we are told halflings use Sticks and Rocks. If WoTC is so terrified of being sued that they cannot even mentioning that halflings use "weapons" in the generic, then they need to drop them from the game. Clearly they are just courting disaster otherwise. Also, Cormyr is a funny example. You know what Cormyr is famous for? Its knights, its army, its licensed adventurers. All of whom patrol the borders and KEEP it safe. Do all halflings in the world live in Cormyr? I doubt it. And if they do... well then halflings are simply a protectorate of the big folk. For all the talk of them being brave and so much better than the big folk because they aren't nearly as greedy and ambitious, they would be showing that they couldn't even survive without the greed and ambition of the humans who forged a kingdom and fight to keep it safe. Kind of like a kid who declares themselves completely independent, as their parents pay for their apartment, groceries and utilities.</blockquote>

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