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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 7974888" data-attributes="member: 6993955">Being insular is one thing, and "snitches get stiches" is another. I was suggesting that the term was perhaps more loaded than is useful and doesn't really apply as-is to Hobbits very well at all.And that stems out of a concern for ... the protection of the culture and the maintenance of the order that allows it to prosper. I'm sure we can spin an example up where it's simple xenophobia, unconnected to concerns about the peace and order, but not in the case of Hobbits.That sound broadly correct. Most real world cultures develop law and order to maintain certain cultural expectations of behavior in situations where the population get big enough or spread out enough that not everyone knows each other. Smaller communities don't need the same level of legal overhead. The degree which a particular culture in human history is lawful would very much depend on broader considerations of that culture. Vikings, for example, had very strict laws of hospitality, but also a culture of raiding and piracy. Law on the one hand and chaos on the other. Looking at the broader context in a particular case is where you'll find the knobs and dials to adjust putative alignment. In the case of Hobbits they have a peaceful, well ordered society, and no extraneous reason to count them as anything but lawful. This matched the write for Halflings in the PHB to btw, and that isn't a mistake.</blockquote>

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