Your Favorite Halfling?
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The Green Adam
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What happened to Stouts and Tallfellows?
My first character ever in a RPG was a Halfling (Basic Set 1977) and was neither Hobbit nor Fat Thief? If I recall I thought of them as proportional, fit...er...hobbits.
I would say I thought of them more like Merry and Pippin then Bilbo or Sam.
AD
Barking Alien
My first character ever in a RPG was a Halfling (Basic Set 1977) and was neither Hobbit nor Fat Thief? If I recall I thought of them as proportional, fit...er...hobbits.
I would say I thought of them more like Merry and Pippin then Bilbo or Sam.AD
Barking Alien
DracoSuave
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Gotta love the dinosaur riding halflings that are backed by the Jorasco and Ghallanda House Halflings!
A Passing Maniac
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Dark Sun's ravenous primitives narrowly beat out Eberron's dinosaur-wranglers for me.
Belkar's also a fine choice, though!
Belkar's also a fine choice, though!
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
Strange that 3e hobbits were missed out of the mix - whyzat?
Pbartender
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I my campaigns, I generally have two subcultures of halflings...
There's the fat, barefoot, bumpkin country halflings. "Hobbit" is a vaguely derogatory term for these guys along the lines of calling someone a "Redneck"... Though the Hobbits will take perverse pride in the term, often enough.
Then there's the slimmer, suave, shoe-wearing 3E/4E city halflings.
There's the fat, barefoot, bumpkin country halflings. "Hobbit" is a vaguely derogatory term for these guys along the lines of calling someone a "Redneck"... Though the Hobbits will take perverse pride in the term, often enough.
Then there's the slimmer, suave, shoe-wearing 3E/4E city halflings.
Mercurius
Legend
My preferred take of halflings is as river-dwelling gypsies who ply their "trades" (thievery, conmanship and jewelry-making) from their barges, which they also live on. I can't remember where but I think some published world has a similar take (probably getting the idea from me 
). But I had the thought that they are descended from a small race of humans who took to the water millenia ago and are so small because of thousands of years on the river selected out larger folk because it was preferrable to be small on the barges.
Gnomes in my 4E setting are kind of like magical hobbits--they live in dwellings like hobbit holes (Bag End) but aren't mundane tea-drinking English folk but rather weavers of illusion and crafters of arcane trinkets. I suppose you could say that they are domesticate Fae.
). But I had the thought that they are descended from a small race of humans who took to the water millenia ago and are so small because of thousands of years on the river selected out larger folk because it was preferrable to be small on the barges.Gnomes in my 4E setting are kind of like magical hobbits--they live in dwellings like hobbit holes (Bag End) but aren't mundane tea-drinking English folk but rather weavers of illusion and crafters of arcane trinkets. I suppose you could say that they are domesticate Fae.
Derulbaskul
Adventurer
7. Belkar (as noted above)
8. FR3E's ghostwise halflings
8. FR3E's ghostwise halflings
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