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Runesmith

Runesmith

3 жыл бұрын

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Did you see that documentary about the travel struggles of pint sized New Zealanders? That ending was crazy. Anyways here's a video about child sized people who like to relax.
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@dafroakie9984
@dafroakie9984 3 жыл бұрын
A halfling is just a hobbit if you replace the hairy feet with the lucky feat.
@balintvasvari7573
@balintvasvari7573 3 жыл бұрын
_Nice one_
@ajaafive1384
@ajaafive1384 3 жыл бұрын
Heh
@Husster72
@Husster72 3 жыл бұрын
I love and hate this.
@DragonaxFilms
@DragonaxFilms 3 жыл бұрын
This comment deserves to be awarded Inspiration.
@nathanallison3172
@nathanallison3172 3 жыл бұрын
this is true, because it rhymes.
@bentri7964
@bentri7964 3 жыл бұрын
I would like to imagine that in halfling culture the phrase "its all downhill from here" is a positive saying meaning that the hard parts are over and the way forward is easier
@simon-patrickjohnson
@simon-patrickjohnson 3 жыл бұрын
I like to imagine that it means that in bicycle culture
@owen6830
@owen6830 3 жыл бұрын
@@simon-patrickjohnson As someone who bikes yeah it do mean that
@TonyRedgrave
@TonyRedgrave 3 жыл бұрын
Wait, "It's all downhill from here" *doesn't* mean that everything is easy from here on out? That's the only way I've ever heard it.
@bentri7964
@bentri7964 3 жыл бұрын
@@TonyRedgrave I've only heard it in a negative light, like the thing that's at the top of the hill is the peak, and it can only become worse as you go downhill
@hungjury7482
@hungjury7482 3 жыл бұрын
Very cool phrase! Nice and optimistic
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 3 жыл бұрын
Halfling: "Damn kids these days." The rest of the party: "Bruh, you’re only 20 years old."
@migfrarummet1907
@migfrarummet1907 3 жыл бұрын
Human: "Kids these days." Halfling: "Buddy, you're only 50 years old."
@estebanrodriguez5409
@estebanrodriguez5409 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine rolplaying a halfling as a grandparent constantly amazed about what his grandchild is doing...
@casbot71
@casbot71 3 жыл бұрын
@@migfrarummet1907 Elves … "Your great grandparents used to say the same thing".
@navilluscire2567
@navilluscire2567 Жыл бұрын
@@casbot71 We keep forgetting elves can live a LOOONNNG ass time and could very well end up going through several generations worth of parties made up of shorter lived races, heck they might end up adventuring with the members of their first party's great grandchildren or great great nephews and nieces or even live long enough to see the exstigushing of some of their old dead friends' entire bloodlines!
@greendragon5603
@greendragon5603 Жыл бұрын
#relatable
@darkmoon2503
@darkmoon2503 3 жыл бұрын
The Wizard: making a complex, philosophical treatise on what they believe is the meaning of life. The Halfling: chilling cuz they already figured it out.
@jacobsheehan9715
@jacobsheehan9715 3 жыл бұрын
A. nonymous the lich: once you know the true meaning of life are like that hafling over there
@lindseyfrancesco4
@lindseyfrancesco4 3 жыл бұрын
Now I want to make a halfling wizard who researches magic because she just thinks it's neat.
@camblycreeper7999
@camblycreeper7999 3 жыл бұрын
@@lindseyfrancesco4 Isn't that what wizards are? They think it's neat so they spend 50,000 Gp to go to school about it
@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong
@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong 3 жыл бұрын
"You know what you guys call 'vibing'? We just do that all day, everyday."
@sagehanson190
@sagehanson190 3 жыл бұрын
@@camblycreeper7999 From what I understand a lot of wizards learn magic in pursuit of knowledge or power, most wizards have some overarching end goal. A halfling wizard would just be learning magic for shits and giggles.
@jtjames79
@jtjames79 3 жыл бұрын
Little known fact, the average halfling is just three missed meals away from cannibalism.
@LucasDeziderio
@LucasDeziderio 3 жыл бұрын
DARK SUN IS CALLING!!
@InquisitorThomas
@InquisitorThomas 3 жыл бұрын
Littler Known fact, Halfing have roughly 12 meals a day, so a day trip through the woods is guaranteed to end in several felonies.
@viktord2025
@viktord2025 3 жыл бұрын
@@LucasDeziderio I would not want to be in the jungle homes of the halflings at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, because it just so happens I make for perfect crumpets to go with their hallusinogenics. There's a story behind that statement
@arcticdino1650
@arcticdino1650 3 жыл бұрын
@@viktord2025 Oh?
@DHTheAlaskan
@DHTheAlaskan 3 жыл бұрын
@@viktord2025 do tell
@MedoryK
@MedoryK 3 жыл бұрын
That door knocking sound effect was a little TOO real!
@noneofyabusiness1098
@noneofyabusiness1098 3 жыл бұрын
i legit put down my head phones and picked up a gun and went to my door lol
@lgp5619
@lgp5619 3 жыл бұрын
My wooden door to my backyard is the perfect distance away to my right. Dude actually wants to cause some heart attacks lol.
@friendlytalbot4050
@friendlytalbot4050 3 жыл бұрын
I have no door to my right from where I was sitting, and immediately jumped up and looked for a door in confusion.
@LeganArabach
@LeganArabach 3 жыл бұрын
For real!
@BAsgeirr
@BAsgeirr 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was wearing headphones and thought somebody is knocking on my wall at 3 AM lol
@MisterBonez
@MisterBonez 3 жыл бұрын
imagine a halfling barbarian where they just say “I’m cross with you” calmly when they enter their rage
@JT5555
@JT5555 2 жыл бұрын
or just start berating you but like a disappointed mother. " now,i've already asked you to stop trying to kill my friends. what would your mother think of you swinging that sword around like that and hurting people? if you were MY son,i'd hope i'd have taught you better then this but sadly some people are just not raised right!". it would be the cutest tirade to ever exist.
@saulesalejos4483
@saulesalejos4483 2 жыл бұрын
@@JT5555 F it, I'm stealing this now. Thanks for the idea.
@JT5555
@JT5555 2 жыл бұрын
@@saulesalejos4483 enjoy and be sure to let me know how it goes.XD
@navilluscire2567
@navilluscire2567 2 жыл бұрын
@@JT5555 Halfling mommy barbarian: **sighs** I am not mad, just...disappointed in you. Human mage adopted son: Wh-Why does that hurt worse than if you were angry with me!? **heart breaks into tiny pieces**
@BobWorldBuilder
@BobWorldBuilder 3 жыл бұрын
I really like “drinking lemonade” being halfling code for pipeweed
@alexanderthelegend7988
@alexanderthelegend7988 3 жыл бұрын
Same
@khalidgagnon8753
@khalidgagnon8753 3 жыл бұрын
Yesssssssir
@TheBasketBaller00
@TheBasketBaller00 3 жыл бұрын
Whoa it’s still weird/cool to see another KZbinr I folllow comment on another KZbinrs! 😂
@junebug4004
@junebug4004 3 жыл бұрын
Hey you. Hope you're having a good day.
@lochlainnhealy548
@lochlainnhealy548 3 жыл бұрын
Wait is that actually what it means? I literally thought he just said lemonade because lemonade tastes kinda nice.
@alias588
@alias588 3 жыл бұрын
Runesmith at the end of the video: "Alright, get lost..." Halflings: "Sounds fun, I'll pack a lunch!"
@opus5770
@opus5770 3 жыл бұрын
Just a lunch?! 😱 What about afternoon tea, dinner, supper? We had better not be getting lost too far from home without also bringing food for breakfast and second breakfast tomorrow, and I want to be back for elevenses!
@feywildheart2878
@feywildheart2878 3 жыл бұрын
@@opus5770 I found the stout halfling
@opus5770
@opus5770 3 жыл бұрын
@@feywildheart2878 actually a lightfoot, but a well-fed one 😂😂😂
@arcticdino1650
@arcticdino1650 3 жыл бұрын
"Short hairy hippies who wear rings... Basically sonic the hedgehog" Truer words were never said
@lunaticoni
@lunaticoni 4 ай бұрын
Ringo Starr
@azathoththe3rd
@azathoththe3rd 3 жыл бұрын
Halflings are for when you wanna put a smile on everyone's face.
@bakomusha
@bakomusha 3 жыл бұрын
And Gnomes are when you wanna put frowns on them!
@izukurinnvarris7797
@izukurinnvarris7797 3 жыл бұрын
Unless it’s Eberron
@jamestown8398
@jamestown8398 3 жыл бұрын
It sounds like Runesmith could have his cake and eat it too by playing a Half-Halfling (where the other half is Gnome), or a Gnome who was raised by Halflings.
@Telsun78
@Telsun78 3 жыл бұрын
If it's a Gnome raised by Halflings, he'll be a tinkerer in the house that explodes every few days and immediately sits on a bench after such a thing sipping his "lemonade". To humans, a house would be a danger-zone of the village. To the halflings it's just their cool exploding house of the village. ^.^
@s33dwallice80
@s33dwallice80 3 жыл бұрын
A quarterling one could say
@smaugsdeothecrusader9734
@smaugsdeothecrusader9734 3 жыл бұрын
@@s33dwallice80 CongratuIations, I hate and like this joke at the same time
@opus5770
@opus5770 3 жыл бұрын
@@s33dwallice80 I came here to say this too! Hehehe... quarterling 😆
@pandoraeeris7860
@pandoraeeris7860 2 жыл бұрын
@@s33dwallice80 Quarterlings were an actual thing in D&D at one point.
@alphanoodle1877
@alphanoodle1877 3 жыл бұрын
You know I met a person that hates halflings with a passion he will rant how much he hates them, not because they are bad, or because he has bad experiences but because he thinks they are boring, that's it. He claims that halflings should be a *human subrace* edit: let me clarify, he hates them so much that he will deny you playing them as well as rant every time he hears the word halfling, to the point nobody even says it near him because of how annoying it is.
@speedlarcool132
@speedlarcool132 3 жыл бұрын
that is so cursed
@fallenjedi3015
@fallenjedi3015 3 жыл бұрын
This man simply fears the happiness that comes with slipping around enemies until they wind up fighting each other instead and then taking a smoke like nothing just happened.
@effigytormented
@effigytormented 3 жыл бұрын
I mean in Tolkien, they are a human subrace, they just varied enough that they became their own people.
@jamesfreeman3617
@jamesfreeman3617 3 жыл бұрын
@@effigytormented no they aren't it stated that the don't really have the epic backstory that the the others races have
@effigytormented
@effigytormented 3 жыл бұрын
@@jamesfreeman3617 not to get into an internet argument but: The prologue to the Fellowship of the Ring states that “it is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves or even than Dwarves.”
@deschaingames1851
@deschaingames1851 3 жыл бұрын
I like playing halfling because, unlike me, they’re immune to failure.
@maxthepaladin2147
@maxthepaladin2147 3 жыл бұрын
I always found it akward How am I supposed to roleplay someone immune to myself?
@lorihacking
@lorihacking 2 жыл бұрын
“Halflings are either rambling tourists or raging alcoholics.”
@navilluscire2567
@navilluscire2567 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine a HUGE family of halflings vacationing in some high fantasy elven kingdom...acting like SUPER annoying tourists that the elven king has asked a party of suckers-I mean brave adventurers to excort and make sure the small *"half pints"* don't end up causing too many problems bothering the elven citizens and touchy things with their grubby little hands.
@GreycatRademenes
@GreycatRademenes 3 жыл бұрын
And now, everytime you play the 'Ballad of Bilbo Baggins' you'll always think of Leronard Nimoy not as Mr Spock, but as an Elf Bard who somehome stublmed into the Shire while drunk!
@butchbabytoaster
@butchbabytoaster 3 жыл бұрын
Best Spotify recommendation ever
@FanOfMostEverything
@FanOfMostEverything 3 жыл бұрын
One of my first Pathfinder characters was a halfling druid. We were running Kingmaker, and he tagged along mostly to make sure the twicelings didn't cause an ecological disaster in the area. Somewhere between the voice of reason, speaking for the trees, and reminding everyone that we don't really _need_ to clean out the fungus caves if we just leave them alone.
@DHTheAlaskan
@DHTheAlaskan 3 жыл бұрын
I love how he refers go the taller races as Twicelings.
@FanOfMostEverything
@FanOfMostEverything 3 жыл бұрын
@@DHTheAlaskan I admit, I borrowed that one from Rusty & Co.
@DHTheAlaskan
@DHTheAlaskan 3 жыл бұрын
@@FanOfMostEverything first time i have heard about rusty & co
@Vezon2121
@Vezon2121 3 жыл бұрын
I love this description. That they are literally retired from the day they are born. And don't suffer from hypertension. Just. Love this so much.
@SergeantSniper
@SergeantSniper 3 жыл бұрын
Halflings are so damn chill and I want to be like them and I love them. I need a friggin' vacation.
@greendragon5603
@greendragon5603 Жыл бұрын
We all do, pal😆
@FreelancerStudios100
@FreelancerStudios100 3 жыл бұрын
funny story i once had an orc who was admired knightly ideals but settled down after meeting his halfling wife and just lived his days peacfully.
@TheDharmaNerd
@TheDharmaNerd 3 жыл бұрын
Hamster_with_banana.jpeg
@FreelancerStudios100
@FreelancerStudios100 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheDharmaNerd XD
@decameter
@decameter 2 жыл бұрын
Haflings get up at 6am not because they have to but because the sunrise is a treat to enjoy with tea and biscuits. And it sure would be wonderful to sit sipping tea and doing a few puzzles while the sun rises, and afterwards they can visit the plants, and talk to the bees, and then perhaps they'll pop over to their neighbors to pick up some fresh bread, and while there they'll grab the letters they'd like to post so they can drop them off with the postman as way of thanks for the bread. While they're at the postman's they drop off a bushel of fresh vegetables as way of thanks for delivering the post. Once they've done that they'll go to the pub, and swap some stories with the lads, before finally retiring for the night at home, in a nice comfortable bed, since they've got a busy day tomorrow wouldn't due to be up too late! They must catch the sunrise again since it is so delightful! And breakfast is better at sunup!
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 3 жыл бұрын
1:43 damn, Halflings would actually make pretty good Monks.
@bakomusha
@bakomusha 3 жыл бұрын
I'm playing one right now. He's a bullheaded little shit, with a chip on his shoulder but I love him so!
@DHTheAlaskan
@DHTheAlaskan 3 жыл бұрын
Especially the Ghostwise Halfling since they get that bonus to wisdom too. The Telepathy is a nice secondary touch so you can talk to people while you are stuffing your cakehole.
@Ozhar1
@Ozhar1 3 жыл бұрын
They're lawful in 5e? They're chaotic good in like every other edition
@archer3813
@archer3813 3 жыл бұрын
I dunno. Maybe it's just this video sarcasm or joke
@DrPluton
@DrPluton 3 жыл бұрын
Their primary deity Yondolla is Lawful Good. They tend towards lawful good as a general rule going back to 1st edition. Adventuring halflings might be more chaotic because they are outliers.
@weebjeez
@weebjeez 3 жыл бұрын
I'd argue that it's really a matter of what you consider lawful/chaotic. Because that ain't "do I follow the law or don't I" , because the Law you ascribe to could also be a personal code of ethics you put on yourself. But yes, most people use "chaotic" to mean "criminally inclined"
@Yabuturtle
@Yabuturtle 3 жыл бұрын
@@weebjeez It really should be "orderly" rather than "lawful" since order is the actual opposite of chaos. You can have a nice orderly life without necessarily following the laws of the land.
@weebjeez
@weebjeez 3 жыл бұрын
@@Yabuturtle Exactly~!
@MrChoco409
@MrChoco409 3 жыл бұрын
Im starting my family on dnd and my dad has read everything Tolkien, so just being able to tell him that literally everything he knows about hobbits translates to halflings makes me happy (and I think itll make him happy too)
@Alizudo
@Alizudo 3 жыл бұрын
Have you run a game yet?
@hamgeekgaming5286
@hamgeekgaming5286 3 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine is playing a Necromancer halfling, 1'1" by the way, with a book that houses a mad God and all the souls of the previous users, and eventually decided to use his cursed Google to figure out how to make soap.
@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606
@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 3 жыл бұрын
Halflings seem REALLY fun to roleplay. When cornered by a dragon: "Why hello there, magnificent being of such unstoppable power! Might I interest you in a cup of well-brewed tea before my likely inescapable demise?" There's a 50-80% chance that that dragon will answer yes. When the party is being run out of town: "Have a nice dayyy!!!" When captured by bandits "Good evening, fellows! Might I interest you all in some refined cooking? I can make some delectably savory rabbit stew!"
@JT5555
@JT5555 2 жыл бұрын
i feel like it takes a certain kind of mindset to be able to pull off a halfling that most people just don't have: too much optimism.XD
@thorin5591
@thorin5591 2 жыл бұрын
Halflings: Are Zen mastsrs 99% of the time and only 1% of them like to start fights. Dwarves: " I am the opposite of you halflings"
@jaimeanguixdiaz1577
@jaimeanguixdiaz1577 3 жыл бұрын
Day 17 asking Runesmith to do a Basically Theros
@basicpigeonbee
@basicpigeonbee 3 жыл бұрын
Ancient Greece, less sex crimes and more hydras and a less chill god of the underworld
@Sauronisbest
@Sauronisbest 3 жыл бұрын
@@basicpigeonbee The Zeus Expy, however, is just about as "chill" as the real thing 🙃
@Styxer1008
@Styxer1008 3 жыл бұрын
Basically the best series on KZbin
@arbiterskiss6692
@arbiterskiss6692 3 жыл бұрын
I want to be a dwarf running an orphanage of Halflings, with the help of a gnome. That would be perfect.
@lsedge7280
@lsedge7280 3 жыл бұрын
If a halfling swings at you with a sword, misses, and breaks it, they now have two halflingswords. That is what we call a critical success.
@hardrockmusickid
@hardrockmusickid 3 жыл бұрын
I've been thinking about making a Halfling Warlock or Sorcerer. I had this idea for a painter who learned of a cool magic paintbrush that allows the user to make stunning artwork that would please almost any king. He simply thought, "Cool, I can bring it back to my village and show the kids cool artwork" and without even knowing if it truly exists, he would leave his village.
@viktord2025
@viktord2025 3 жыл бұрын
My favorite iteration of halflings are the Hin of Mystara (depicted as their own distinct subrace in the Mystara Player's Guide for 5th edition D&D, coming soon), who spent the first part of their life as basically Bilbo Baggins when he leaves the Shire for his adventure, and the rest of it they spend home farming, writing, telling stories and breeding like rabbits. Also they know how to kill because of their Bilbo phase. Seriously, they will charge greater demons because they know damn well they're gonna win.
@troperhghar9898
@troperhghar9898 3 жыл бұрын
Halfling + divination wizard + lucky feat = laugh at DM
@Mare_Man
@Mare_Man 3 жыл бұрын
Even better if you start with a level in Divine Soul sorc
@troperhghar9898
@troperhghar9898 3 жыл бұрын
@@Mare_Man and if your party has two half orc death clerics then the laughs never end
@xcalixus
@xcalixus 3 жыл бұрын
@@troperhghar9898 death or grave?
@troperhghar9898
@troperhghar9898 3 жыл бұрын
@@xcalixus when I DM the two are one and the same
@kevinstrout630
@kevinstrout630 3 жыл бұрын
Have done this, best part was that then I had wisdom as my dump stat, multiclassed into bard and became basically Gilderoy Lockheart but he inexplicably lives up to his ego.
@lordodysseus
@lordodysseus 3 жыл бұрын
That knock scared the fuck out of me. I love my headphones but wow!
@MajikkaniHand
@MajikkaniHand 3 жыл бұрын
Right? I got dressed back up and crept up to my front door to look for interlopers.
@trexdrew
@trexdrew 3 жыл бұрын
“They’re lawful good” *me looking at my chaotic neutral shit talking spawn of luck leprechaun level Halfling who was basically an Irish mob son wanting to expand the family enterprise to new far away lands* Suuuuuuuure…let’s say that…
@aduckwithayoutubechannel
@aduckwithayoutubechannel 2 жыл бұрын
Enemy: _breaks sword_ Halfling: Fool! Now I have TWO SWORDS!
@Mr-Moron
@Mr-Moron 2 жыл бұрын
Adventurer: How did you become a god??? Terry the Halfling: Tbh man I don’t know and that’s the best part because divine breakfasts are awesome.
@kylevidauri4869
@kylevidauri4869 3 жыл бұрын
Drakenheim is just Mordheim. That being said that makes me really want it.
@navilluscire2567
@navilluscire2567 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah...I need to play Mordheim again.
@peertimm9075
@peertimm9075 3 жыл бұрын
DAMMIT! That knocking at 1:00 sounded so real and close on my headphones, I was loocking in terror at my window. At second floor! Got me with that one good XDD
@tgr3423
@tgr3423 3 жыл бұрын
You can sum up Halflings with one simple phrase: "Aye, but what about SECOND breakfast?"
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 2 жыл бұрын
The idea of Halflings basically being born retired kind of reminds me of the Patagonians from Last and First Men.
@aaron2718w
@aaron2718w 3 жыл бұрын
Halflings are the best. Legit nicest character I've ever played was one. She was a little spicy because wild magic sorcerer with a fire ginasi for an ancestor but she only ever hurt people to follow the will of Helm and protect people. Plus she was absolutly best friends with everyone in every party she was in. She made such good friends with the rogue they would later team up in several other campaigns.
@FirstLast-cg2nk
@FirstLast-cg2nk 2 жыл бұрын
Halflings are the one race of beings I could see one of them becoming a grand master of an order of monks completely by accident.
@smilemore7431
@smilemore7431 3 жыл бұрын
RuneDude: “99% of halflings are peaceful zen gardeners” Me: finally... I’m apart of the one percent.
@weavelcow9596
@weavelcow9596 3 жыл бұрын
This is great because I'm currently playing a Halfling Warlock and last week when one of our party members got us into a fight with another adventuring group, my Halfling wasn't involved. The very next round my party was being beat to death and then using just words got them to back off, not attacking them once.
@HilltreesHarmony
@HilltreesHarmony 3 жыл бұрын
That knocking sounds literally had me saying "come in!" thinking it was my roommate knocking on my door lmao
@DragonaxFilms
@DragonaxFilms 3 жыл бұрын
5:25 Can confirm, homegrown tomatoes are stellar.
@DHTheAlaskan
@DHTheAlaskan 3 жыл бұрын
Have had homemade marinara sauce, shit is cash
@lechugaenlabiblioteca3298
@lechugaenlabiblioteca3298 3 жыл бұрын
Yes they had a nice breakfast, but what about second breakfast?
@stupidvarietyhour
@stupidvarietyhour 3 жыл бұрын
Basically my favorite D&D creator
@WalkinStereotype
@WalkinStereotype 3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite characters I’ve made was a stout halfling paladin. (I understand at a certain point it becomes redundant with Brave, but nonetheless) who was raised by dwarves, and she always thought she was just a runt amongst her kin. She eventually finds out she’s halfling and goes in search of her family, and ends up being so confused by halfling society.
@foxoninetails_
@foxoninetails_ 3 жыл бұрын
Worth noting that they aren't _completely_ immune to crit fails. You can only reroll any given check/save/attack with that ability once, hence the "you must use the new roll" part - that said, it does drastically reduce the chance of a crit fail, from a 5% chance all the way down to a 0.25% chance. It's a rare day when a halfling gets a natural 1. Also very fun - stacking the halfling's Lucky trait with the Lucky feat. Got disadvantage? Spend a luck point, roll potentially up to 6d20 depending how many 1s you roll on your initial batch of 3, and take the highest anyway.
@aragorn1780
@aragorn1780 3 жыл бұрын
"Gotta avoid their legal team sending a Nazgul to your door because both of them are an equally scary bunch.." I stand to differ... A cease and desist from the Tolkien Estate's legal team is 10000x scarier than facing a Nazgul!
@emielpeper9248
@emielpeper9248 3 жыл бұрын
Halflings are my favorite race as a DM because I treat them as psychotic murderballs who just can't be bothered to care a hoot about danger because they know they are unnaturally lucky. I tend to present their luck as them operating on cartoon physics in a world that otherwise operates normally, so a nat1 weapon attack that hits after the reroll becomes the "sword swings, slips out of hand, ricochets off a tree and then ends up stabbing the ogre anyway" or an entire building collapsing around them and the Halflings having some soot on their face while the other people inside just got crushed by falling debris
@mattheusfinco7050
@mattheusfinco7050 3 жыл бұрын
Damn this might suck for the other players on the table
@emielpeper9248
@emielpeper9248 3 жыл бұрын
@@mattheusfinco7050 the collapsing building example was a bunch of enemy bandits. Wizard fireballed the building, two Halfling allies were still inside and they ended up making their saves for the debris
@Yabuturtle
@Yabuturtle 3 жыл бұрын
They always make fun of them for not being ambitious. You don't see many halfling heroes or huge halfling empires, but they don't really have to in order to be cool. If the others ate a snickers and calm down, maybe the other races would be lucky and perhaps live a little longer.
@mudawott
@mudawott 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly? Like ambition is literally just a strong desire to do something and their ambition is to be chill little dudes, living a while and caring for their family and others
@Deathven1482
@Deathven1482 3 жыл бұрын
That knock scared this shit outta me at night LOL
@fallenjedi3015
@fallenjedi3015 3 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for this video for so long and you did not disappoint! Thx for reminding me why I love halflings! Also, I love your channel!
@vaughngordon1095
@vaughngordon1095 3 жыл бұрын
I wanted to say you don't know anything about halflings but then I got to the end of the video and realized you were saying everything I have said since 1978 plus never lost track of it over the last 43 years. *sips some ale and puffs on some pipeweed*
@ismaashawsome4685
@ismaashawsome4685 3 жыл бұрын
That knock at 1:03 scared the shit out of me. Due to where I sit in my room it sounded like someone knocked on my window. Other than that jumpscare, great vid
@ShankMugen
@ShankMugen 3 жыл бұрын
Ye same
@bombvoyage5686
@bombvoyage5686 3 жыл бұрын
A whole race of the definition of “vibing”
@bigboyart1
@bigboyart1 3 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful. I've watched this for an hour now.
@simonzimmerly5548
@simonzimmerly5548 3 жыл бұрын
1:07 “the most relaxed group of humanoids on the earth” nah man that’s Canadians
@ThatBeePerson
@ThatBeePerson 3 жыл бұрын
as a canadian i can confirm
@JonathanMandrake
@JonathanMandrake 3 жыл бұрын
Headcannon: Canadians ARE Halflings
@kyleway8513
@kyleway8513 3 жыл бұрын
Buddy Halflings are Canadians Frodo is basically just Ricky from Trailer Park Boys
@SolaPersona
@SolaPersona 3 жыл бұрын
I doubt anyone is going to be digging up any mass child graves from Halfling towns soon.
@SodaPopBarbecue
@SodaPopBarbecue 3 жыл бұрын
@@SolaPersona *Dark Sun Intensifies over Canada*
@radicallabyrinth5416
@radicallabyrinth5416 3 жыл бұрын
Halflings with the lucky feat are simply beautiful
@thedominator5620
@thedominator5620 3 жыл бұрын
6:19 That one halfling going: "I'm the mother-loving-mailman!"
@Daktangle
@Daktangle 3 жыл бұрын
And if you're Sam Riegel, you will only use your Lucky trait when it screws over the party, because he's a big arse sometimes. XD
@MI24CL3
@MI24CL3 3 жыл бұрын
Damn that door knock at 1:00, sounded so real and beyond my headphones. Except when I turned to my right, there was just a wardrobe, it got me confused for half a minute haha
@derrinerrow4369
@derrinerrow4369 3 жыл бұрын
I really want to sometime run a Halfing Druid named Anton Dankweed, who's unique spellcasting focus is an enchanted smoking pipe he loads with a special blend of herbs and spices. Definitely gonna roleplay him as a stoner.
@collinw9934
@collinw9934 Жыл бұрын
I love this vid, especially how you approach the Lucky feature. Imagining halflings as real people gives me a weird type of feeling, like I'm imagining happiness and then I start to actually feel happy.
@DJDarkDarsi
@DJDarkDarsi 3 жыл бұрын
Jeeezes That Nazgul Knock was genuinely scary, 1000/10 Audio work there.
@Armor15gaming
@Armor15gaming 3 жыл бұрын
You know you’re a good dnd youtuber when you get 9,000 views in 45 minutes, not many can say that
@NiyumiGoldpetal
@NiyumiGoldpetal 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the new character idea: A halfling bard who is a really amazing chef and has two motivations in life Telling grand takes of his adventures to his younger sister. And eating good food.
@Jane_8319
@Jane_8319 3 жыл бұрын
4:00 I do it by being a religious divination cleric - I’m in touch with the magic of reality. Of course my wizard also has crippling anxiety and paranoia - being removed from my small town home and learning of a necromancy conspiracy annihilated all my calm zen-ness
@RedekerKane
@RedekerKane 3 жыл бұрын
That knock at 1:01 gave me a heart attack because it's 1am.
@DarkonFullPower
@DarkonFullPower Жыл бұрын
Note: If the dice rolled by Lucky is also a 1, then they are stuck with it. Rolling two 1's in a row is 1 out of 400 odds, but they are not "immune" to critical failure.
@terminatormonkey6233
@terminatormonkey6233 3 жыл бұрын
This video is obviously orc mischief
@madelyntielking6483
@madelyntielking6483 3 жыл бұрын
Oh I am so making my next dnd character a plant-obsessed (druid) halfling who just wants to grow the best garden
@zoll2000
@zoll2000 3 жыл бұрын
1:01 that knock fucked me up. I completely 100% thought someone was knocking on the door trying to get my attention cause of my headphones
@erickknight1239
@erickknight1239 3 жыл бұрын
You're the reason my sleep schedule sucks, I'm about to sleep and I see another one of your videos and I get dragged back down the rabbit hole... no regrets
@rhysphillips3743
@rhysphillips3743 3 жыл бұрын
did anyone else not like how realistic the knockings sound was. shit sounded like something banging on my walls! liked video just for making me think take headphones off and think again then rewind and think once more
@aneitalt
@aneitalt Жыл бұрын
It makes a cool idea to make a changeling raised by halflings, just vibing with everyone. (though shapeshifting by pointless since everyone is so chill that there won't be much of a reason to do so)
@elliotmcdeville1117
@elliotmcdeville1117 2 ай бұрын
My halfling barbarian doesn't rage, she just has "big feelings" and it makes her large.
@joaquimpereira4995
@joaquimpereira4995 3 жыл бұрын
1:01 my headphones are good enough I actually thought that knock was real, good job
@TransientWitch
@TransientWitch 3 жыл бұрын
I like to think of Halfling bravery as being much like Kender's general fear immunity. They don't seek out and stand up to terrifying things, they're just...Not bothered by death or pain, even if they will do their best to avoid those things. For Kender, it's less pleasant breakfasts and more fun adventures and many "found" objects in their pouches, and not-dying is celebrated by more "finding" and more adventuring!
@AzureIV
@AzureIV 3 жыл бұрын
Technically the Lucky trait only works once for each die roll. So if you roll a nat 1 again after the reroll, you just have to take that L.
@ImHoomen
@ImHoomen 3 жыл бұрын
I love runesmith's videos, they are very good and funny
@GabrielSpanamberg
@GabrielSpanamberg 2 жыл бұрын
Thats just a great video! Thanks man, that was really cool, your storytelling is great!!
@insanity9329
@insanity9329 3 жыл бұрын
This video is very wholesome and I love it. Thank you, Runesmith.
@matjepson2192
@matjepson2192 3 жыл бұрын
My canon is that Stout Halflings are the result of having a Dwarf and a Halfling parent. There ya go, you can be both now
@acheron89
@acheron89 3 жыл бұрын
That door knock at the start scared the crap out of me. Cool video bro.
@Kardel_VA
@Kardel_VA 3 жыл бұрын
I love Halflings. One of my favorite races.
@Taikomo
@Taikomo 3 жыл бұрын
Listening to this on headphones and the Nazgul at the door knocking almost gave me a heart attack! I didn't expect to hear it only from the right, I actually took my headphones off and looked around trying to figure out where the knocking came from.
@navilluscire2567
@navilluscire2567 2 жыл бұрын
**horrible unstoppable monster appears** *Human about to die:* OH GODS NO!! *Halfling about to die:* Eeehhh...welp, I had a good run and a pretty tasty lunch before this!
@negljbreakergaming
@negljbreakergaming 3 жыл бұрын
1:00, that shit had me jumping because I heard a knocking door from my left, where there is nothing but a basement wall.
@icantthinkofagoodname.3983
@icantthinkofagoodname.3983 3 жыл бұрын
Everyone forgets about the ghostwise halflings. But that was in Sword Coast Adventure's guide so that makes sense.
@ianhammock4564
@ianhammock4564 3 жыл бұрын
"Halflings can become zealots" *Late-campaign Beverly intensifies*
@bible.animations
@bible.animations 3 ай бұрын
That knock 1:06 freaked me out! Thought someone was at my window
@bear3547
@bear3547 3 жыл бұрын
So what i learnt from this video is that you have to be absolutely blazed to properly roleplay a halfling
@jordanarnold6783
@jordanarnold6783 3 жыл бұрын
This is exactly why I love Halflings, and thank you for putting it into words.
@TheKeyblader133
@TheKeyblader133 3 жыл бұрын
1:02 That door knock is genuinely evil, it sounds like it is coming from outside of my headphones and you should feel bad.
@yungo1rst
@yungo1rst 3 жыл бұрын
Halfling villages are chill places to relax away from the worry of dimensional threats. They garner allies to protect their borders with farming treaties and vacation homes custom built for their heights.
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