We keep seeing dwarf and elf threads but where are the comfy halfling threads?
Elves are a constant shitposting topic thanks to porn and anti-elf memes. And dwarf-fags are a loud minority kicking their thread back to life over the course of weeks.But have fun with your halfling thread. Good luck.
>>96870868Elves make for the best halflings.
>>96870868>>96870898>The halfling cuck thinks he's better than everyone elselmao
>>96870918>smokes my pipeweed and blows it at you
colin is this thread, you prick
Halflings just don't have a place for me.I usually play the shortest possible race and that usually is kobolds, pixies or faries.
>>96870868Halflings are made for _____ ____
>>96871115elvish onee-san
>>96871129Pedo elf
>>96870868Anal.
>>96870868Halflings are lolishotacon-coded, sorry.
>>96871258Fuck off back to Twitter faggot.
>>96871115Large families.
>>96870868What do halflings even do?>Sit around at home all day and eat.That's what /tg/ does in real life anyway. Why would I want to play someone who's just a shorter, shittier version of me?
>>96870901>half elves make for the best halflingsthere I fixed it for you
>>96871404It might remind you that it's not so bad, at least you're not a manlet.
>>96870868>the comfy halfling threadsI've seen a few of those. Comfy gnome threads, now that's unheard of.
Question: should halflings be skinny or fat?
>>96872441Same as humans.My in universe take on halflings is that they were a race of humans whose lands were destroyed and they were cursed with a reduce person curse so now they are forever traveling small people
>>96872486I kinda like the Warhammer Fantasy halflings, they're basically what you described but for ogres instead of humans.
>>96872551oh cool, i guess i will have to check out warhammer fantasy. this picture looks great.especially compared to the abomination that are the 5e halflings
>>96872551WF haflings are fun, rather gimped in 4e right now, but fun
>>96870868Chilchuck is the single time I've seen Halflings done well since Frodo.
>>96872631Halflings are criminally underutilized, which is weird given how simple the concept is and how famous they are.
>>96872669The vast majority of players want to be something "cool" or "sexy," the humble appeal of a plucky underdog who values hearth and home is sadly lost on them
>>96872669Other than being short their main defining trait is not wanting to go on adventures.
>>96873403Perfect foil for a party!
>>96873981They can be played really well with the right mindset. Still, this can be tough depending on how the DM plays their kind.
>>96871404They are just comfier humans. Hobbits do work, the Shire is a place that didn't grow by itself.
I like halfling females.
>>96870868Let's have some actual serious discussion:My friends and I are starting a WFRP campaign soon, and I plan to play a halfling. I'm hoping to incorporate enough of the halfling "overly laid-back"/silly'/slightly-kleptomaniacal personality to be distinctive without going full kender.Aside from, you know, talking to people, are there any tips for making halflings a little whimsical and childish without being annoying?
>>96874105Describe the way they walk without a care for anything, even skipping sometimes.Give them a habit they do while in dungeons or stressful situations that make them seem more silly, like whistling.Have them not correct others when they are seen as an actual child, until it's time to drink.Get the lucky feat and never let them fail anything.In all, just have fun as a player, cause that will bleed into your character.
>>96873403That's just Bilbo at the start, and let's face it: he was basically shangai'd by Gandalf's zany schemes. You would smell something fishy too on with a bunch of NEET dwarves making you their "burglar", and rightly so.Most hobbits we see like the idea of adventures or at least seeing the world outside: Sam especially, but Pippin and to an extent Merry too. Frodo is the one that one the start understands the weight of the Ring, but oddly enough he's the execption.It would seem to me that Tolkien intended a consistent minority of hobbits to be at least open to the idea of going outside the Shire.
>>96870868>where are the comfy halfling threads?those are always very short threads
>>96873403I don't see this as a problem because "wanting to go on an adventure" is the most boring motivation for a character possible, ideally every character should have a reason that forces them to go on the adventure.
What's the difference between a Halfling and a Gnome aside from Gnomes being innately fruity?
>>96874201>It would seem to me that Tolkien intended a consistent minority of hobbits to be at least open to the idea of going outside the Shire.I think it's also notable that they're all pretty young.Tolkien based the Shire heavily on little English country villages, and it's a trope there (I mean, in lots of places) that some number of young people will get stars in their eyes and go to the big city instead of just hanging on to work as a hired hand on their dad's farm which their brother will later inherit. Enough of those people later return and settle down to be boring to reassure everyone that the outside is terrible (this is a confirmation bias, because the ones who prosper outside just don't come back).Aside from being short, hobbits are basically generic rural people, except that they're unusually prosperous and their love of food and leisure is exaggerated.
>>96875564Hobbits are DPS while Gnomes are magic users of some kind. As a tendency. Unless you're warcraft where they're both
>>96875564You can read all about it here.
>>96875564Originally halflings couldn't into magic. At all. So halfling with magic was Gnome.Nowadays, common interpretation is that Halfling is "small Human" while Gnome is "small Elf", but there's also other ways to handle it...
>>96875775>while Gnome is "small Elf"Historically gnomes were related to Dwarves in early D&D, and are in most retroclones
>>96875564Halflings are normal humanoids who happen to be small. Gnomes are related to fey creatures.
What is the ideal mount for a halfling? Pony, riding dog, giant chicken, other livestock?
>>96876110cock
>>96876110I love riding dogs.I also love how the 3e book clarifies that this refers to all large dog breeds, not just breeds meant specifically for being ridden by halflings.
This is a beautiful halfling woman from 5.5e and you're going to find it attractive, bigot.
>>96870868Halflings are Dwarves who adapted to living around Humans.
>>96874063Me too. But then again, I am a pedophile.
>>96875775>PicNow that elf halfling is some real good shitBut anyways that's a very interesting interpretation of halflings as being hyper-adaptable. Reminds me a lot of how some settings interpret goblins as being hyper-adaptable, and with that now I'm just imagining the idea of goblins being to halflings what drow are to elves.
>>96876355part 2 (of 2)
>>96870868Some guy tries to make one every other week and DEMANDS that it be D&D halflings.
>>96870868Halflings are all talk and no action>My great uncle once rode a horse and killed a goblin>My uncle visited elves and saw a dragon>My auntie is famousOkay, do you want to come on an adventure?>No, my pantry will start to smell if I leave it for too long>Can't, I have a garden to tend>Nah, my door won't paint itself you know
>>96872441They should tend towards rounder than us. They shouldn't just be scaled down humans. I'm a respecter of the square cube law
>>96876501Spoken like a man without land.
>>96872551That halfling has a massive cock
>>96876532so big he can effortlessly sit on it
>>96875564Depends on the setting. Gnomes are either illusionists, inventors, or woodland creatures. Halflings are either laid back, rural homebodies, or thieving gypos
Am I insane or wasn't the prior BBEG of Dark Sun an insane Halfling supremacist? Cant remember if I hallucinated that tidbit. If true that was a kino idea. "Hah-hah we human sorcerer GODS are going to wipe out all the demihuman freaks.""Wait what do you mean 'humans' are the last to face the wall?"
bros imagine if halflings were real manlets would be ROLLING in italthough the halflings would probably still require men 6'. At 3.5' they couldn't even tell the difference between a 5'6" turbomanlet and a 6', but the female groupthink consensus instinct crosses racial lines.
>>96876650>1'3" Halfling manlet would have more luck with a cat than a real woman.
>>96876676>>1'3" Halfling manlet would have more luck with a cat than a real woman.Obviously I was referring to human manlets. Halfling manlets are so pathetic you'd think they'd be bred out of existence but they're hardcore patriarchy and rape and breed captured halfling women from neighboring tribes, that's why they're always at war.
>>96872669Is this illustration from that famous 70s adventure where the halflings were capturing and raping human men? Wild shit, WoTC might want to do that since they'd like to show white human males getting the justice they deserve, but even they wouldn't actually try it.
>>96872631I dunno, doesn't what'shername from Fell's Five count?
>>96872441Skinny like in 3.5
>>96872631All of the lore and stuff in Dungeon Meshi is done really well. Aside from the fact that making mechanics for eating monsters would be super hard, it's definitely an RPG waiting to happen.
>>96870868Throw the kender in the blender
>>96876930Skerples already did that with the Monster-Menu-All for AD&D.
>>96876110I like the idea of halflings riding giant rabbits.
>>96876650Sorry anon, but Hobbits are very traditional folk and can't get into relationships with the big folk. It's forbidden.
>>96877393The hopping gait seems like it would be uncomfortable. At the very least, all of their cavalry would have to be female (pro-tip: men don't canter their horses).
>>96877455>The hopping gait seems like it would be uncomfortable.False, halflings actually prefer hopping steeds as per their famous slingers who ride in kangaroo pouches. (Attack 1 per round, 1d4+1 sling damage, Kangaroo 2 punches 1d2 or 1 double leg kick 1d6+10' knock back)
>>96871415He got a point now. She is a half-elf not a full-elf.
>>96870868Problem is what do you call them? Hobbits, Brownies, Halflings, Kithkin, etc? Their biggest problem is there are often stuck between Ghomes, and Dwarves as the short human like race. You don't get a locked named for them so people skip for other something unique or familiar. Though they do have a fanbase. Just like Dwarfs just a little smaller and off to their own rather than fighting with another group.
>>96875775>>96876430Those halfling elves, orcs, and drakkin need correction.
I seem to recall halflings also being referred to as "hin" in BECMI.
Building a Hafling Illusionist Thief, trying to decide upon the type of halfling, in one flavor of D&D there were different types like Hill, Forest...something.Maybe i'll decide based upon the hairyness of its feet.
>>96872631>>96876930>Half-Foots have to call themselves that (a name cooked-up by Elves) because Elves SPECIFICALLY made one of the most terrible swears/slurs in Common sound exactly like the Half-Foots' name for their race in their own language.Equal parts hilarious and spiteful. Honestly, has any other setting done this with halflings? Most times (save for Dark Sun where their insane cannibals), halflings are the capybaras of the sentient races; everyone's cool with them.
>>96874011Had a DM make an entirely short-folk campaign (halflings, goblins, kobolds, and gnomes). The four big-folk races (humans, elves, dwarves, and orcs) finally had The War to End All Wars and successfully genocided themselves. With all of civilization dead and none of the big-folk to keep the other monsters and magics in check, the short-folk have to fend for themselves and retake the major cities for their own survival. Suddenly ordinary buildings are massive and labyrinthine. Regular predators are fearsome beasts again. You're playing as races that really DON'T know anything about major places, so everything is new and mysterious.
>>96876430I wish he'd make a part 3.
>>96870868It would be funny if halflings lived their entire existence thinking they were among the tallest beings in the world, and then encountered other species and realized they were actually the smallest.Something like:>halfling: "Wait, we're small?">human: "yeah, like a kid, sorry">halfling: "Damn, I guess we'll have to change our species' name.">human: "What are they called now?">halfling: *sniff* "The tallest ones.">human: "Pfft... hahahaha!"
>>96876517>the square cube lawHalflings sized people wouldn't make good adventurers. A human scaled down to half height would have a quarter of his full strength, but a naturally evolved race of halflings would be even weaker
>>96875564Gnomes are "quirky" for whatever retarded definition you use, Halflings are normal.
>>96876355Forbidden Lands runs with that-- 50% of babies born to halflings are morphologically goblins and 50% of babies born to goblins are morphologically halflings and they secretly gather a couple times a year to swap so the other races won't find out.
>>96878776Who says? Chimps are about half human height but much stronger pound for pound.
>>96876517The square cube law suggests they should be thinner though. Just compare spiders to elephants.
>>96879080Chimps are strong in certain ways but weaker in others. They climb and swing, and are much bigger than they appear. Human arms are for carrying and fine manipulation. Halfling arms would have the same purpose as human ones, not as tree legs.>>96879353Spiders are cold blooded. Elephants have large ears for shedding excess heat, and have certain behaviours, such as covering themselves in water, rolling in mud, etc. specifically to lose heat. The smaller a mammal or bird, the more they tend towards roundness for heat retention. This is not some wild theory of my own. This is established fact. >The square cube law suggests they should be thinner thoughThis is a retarded statement
>>96879080>Chimps are about half human heightThey're 4'11" ft on average, and about 125 lb. Halflings are about 3 ft and probably 30 lbs
>>96870868The thing I don't get is why don't we get any threads about games? This is /traditional games/. One would think people here would want to talk about GAMES
>>96879597Most of the threads are about games. Just look at the catalogue
>>96878380Who was your tank? Melee DPR main?
>>96879514>Halfling arms would have the same purpose as human ones, not as tree legs.Halflings burrow. That requires upper body and core strength.
>>96881323Humans burrow. It's called a shovel
>>96870868I never know what to do with them. Gnomes, I understand and get.Halflings are sore thumbs.
>>96877562I'm french and I just stole Dungeon Meshi's name for them: Demi-Pied, which sounds cute
>>96877562In my world? Officially they're called Kith. If you ask one of them what their people are called, they'll say "we're the kith."But uh... most people will call them halflings. Which is an incredibly rude thing to call them.
>>96877615that was forgotten realms that coined that name - apparently it was so Ed greenwood could save on word count rather than typing out "halfling" all the time.
>>96881896They're fun if you play them like whimsical shits. I've let halflings get away with shit I wouldn't take from a larger species.
>>96878763Their leaders are known as the "ALMIGHTY TALLEST!" Due to being the tallest LOL
>>96878763Their species would be wiped out in a single generation. The Great Replacement of Halflings with Quarterlings as all the women ditch their manlets for humans.
>>96870868I WANT TO PICK UP A HALFLINGAnd then put him down on a higher ground
>>96883671In B/X you could subdue a dragon by saying you're using "the flat of your blade" and you'd do non-lethal dmg (something along those lines), and when he got to 0 hp he'd surrender out of embarrassment. Same thing with halflings, during combat you can hold them at arm's length while they're swinging their weapon toddler-style in a windmill. Maybe rest a potion on their head. They'll give up and the female ones will join you as your concubine.
>>96870901If halfling girls were real I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off them.
imagine you live in a city and a bunch of halflings move into your city and now your entire neighborhood smells like a bakery and there's gardens sprouting up everywhere with bountiful vegetables and fruits and flowers and you keep losing things like buttons and needles and forks but every sunday your neighbors come by and thank you for letting them borrow something by making you the guest of honor at a delightful dinnerfucking halflings
>>96884500>Be me.>I'm in my living room reading a book about hunting dragons.>Suddenly, a halfling enters the room as if nothing's wrong and starts rummaging through my drawers.>"Uh... excuse me, this is my house.">The halfling stops, and we lock eyes for a few seconds. That innocent, childlike face always unsettles me.>He decides to ignore me and continues rummaging through my drawers.>"Oh, perfect," the halfling says and takes a ball of yarn.>This happens two or three times a week.>How do they keep coming in? I locked all the doors!
>>96870868I always thought that halflings supposed to be a human pygmies.
Travelling with a halfling girl must be fun.
>>96884898Those two are going to die... well, he will die, she will be raped and then she will die.
>>96875564Hey hey, anon. You see, Gnomes are the product of polygamy, incestuous breeding, and coprophilia. It is no exaggeration, nor hyperbole, that all evils of the world are endorsed and committed by gnomes. A gnome feels no empathy, nor remorse---no common humanity that separates us from simple beasts. The only 'love' a gnome can feel, if you dare describe it so, is that for money. A gnome would sooner sell his own mother for a pouch of silvers than do a single good deed in his entire gaping hole of an existence.Meanwhile, the halfling is a perversion of one man's romanticization of the rural subsistence farmer turned into what some call a 'legal' loli/shota.
>>96876145Not diverse enough, chud. Go shill your hate somewhere, you disgusting bigoted /pol/ster.
>>96885146nta, but once you toy around with the idea of fucking one, it's better to just not in polite company...
>>96870868Halflings are boring, and a knock-off of something less boring.
>>96872669Games usually don't well-model the advantages of being tiny. It requires an environment made of Swiss cheese where all kinds of things that are normally obstructions are instead your unique and exclusive source of cover and concealment, not to mention routes outright impossible for others. A wagon is a bunker, an AC vent is a crawlspace, every piece of furniture is defilade, every piece of scrub brush makes you invisible. Actually dealing with something the size of a 5 year old but with the mental acuity and will of an adult would range from infuriating to nightmare fuel, but that's hard to turn into numbers.
