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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8743913" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>After years of hearing complaints about halflings, WotC seems to have addressed them head-on in the first One D&D playtest document:</p><p></p><p>Now, I think a lot of the complaints about halflings are overblown, or even outright clickbait -- "I don't understand why they'd be adventurers!" complain human beings who live within 15 miles of the high school they graduated from 20 years ago -- but WotC wants to put those complaints to rest.</p><p></p><p>We get sedentary, homebody hobbits as the societal default, but we also have Tooks or 3E and 4E halflings, who feel the urge to wander and explore (dreadlocks and river-rafts optional).</p><p></p><p>Why is your halfling an adventurer? Because <em>many</em> halflings get that urge.</p><p></p><p>Basically, whatever your (mainstream) view of halflings, the next PHB will explicitly say "yep, those halflings are represented here."</p><p></p><p></p><p>These are all pretty good. As an old fart, I wouldn't mind if halflings had proficiency with slings by default, but I'm not sure if there's any classes that <em>don't</em> get proficiency with slings anyway.</p><p></p><p></p><p>WotC went ahead and killed off lineages for halflings, like <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/one-d-d-gets-gnomes-close-to-perfect.690868/" target="_blank">I wish they would have for gnomes</a>. But with the death of racial ASIs, there's not much left to differentiate halfling lineages.</p><p></p><p>Hot take: I wish they'd have explicitly said that kender were just what halflings were called on Krynn, where they have a unique culture, but that would likely clash with the new Dragonlance book coming out and upset a lot of fans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8743913, member: 11760"] After years of hearing complaints about halflings, WotC seems to have addressed them head-on in the first One D&D playtest document: Now, I think a lot of the complaints about halflings are overblown, or even outright clickbait -- "I don't understand why they'd be adventurers!" complain human beings who live within 15 miles of the high school they graduated from 20 years ago -- but WotC wants to put those complaints to rest. We get sedentary, homebody hobbits as the societal default, but we also have Tooks or 3E and 4E halflings, who feel the urge to wander and explore (dreadlocks and river-rafts optional). Why is your halfling an adventurer? Because [I]many[/I] halflings get that urge. Basically, whatever your (mainstream) view of halflings, the next PHB will explicitly say "yep, those halflings are represented here." These are all pretty good. As an old fart, I wouldn't mind if halflings had proficiency with slings by default, but I'm not sure if there's any classes that [I]don't[/I] get proficiency with slings anyway. WotC went ahead and killed off lineages for halflings, like [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/one-d-d-gets-gnomes-close-to-perfect.690868/']I wish they would have for gnomes[/URL]. But with the death of racial ASIs, there's not much left to differentiate halfling lineages. Hot take: I wish they'd have explicitly said that kender were just what halflings were called on Krynn, where they have a unique culture, but that would likely clash with the new Dragonlance book coming out and upset a lot of fans. [/QUOTE]
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