D&D lore and roleplay tips for halflings

[@arloracc]

I'm gonna be playing a halfling in a campaign soon, so it's good to know this information.

[@glamourweaver]

The reason Halflings as written of in most DnD books just sound like smaller humans is that at the end of the day that’s what Hobbits are in Tolkien’s lore. That’s why they have no special mythic origin in the Silmarillion like Elves and Dwarves do. They’re an offshoot lineage of Men and fall under that umbrella with regard to their nature and the fate of their souls.

[@sanctuary6689]

I’m playing my first D&D campaign and I’m playing a halfling! So I’m here for this! I’ve been calling myself a hobbit for over two decades, so let’s see if I’ve been accurate.

[@kountzer0]

Spot on! I've been playing off and on since it was TSR and simply AD&D. It seems 5e is a great attempt to make this wonderful game more accessible with more story focus and character development built in....while still being a flexible and capable framework of any complexity in nearly any imaginative capacity. It's like a group of folks writing a story together around a campfire...with those lovely math gems. Even in this age of Renaissance for the game, folks don't get the happy folk. It's like we didn't hear Tolkien because the rest of the story was too loud and tragic and triumphant and all that it is. Of course, the happy little folk just...went home...and nobody noticed. 🤣

[@TheFirstArcadianDnD]

"It's like we didn't hear Tolkien because the rest of the story was too loud"... Man, this sentence is pure gold. It's actually quite intriguing how hobbits/halflings were born out of Tolkien's desire to represent us, the "normal" folk, and yet it's one of the ancestries I feel players more estranged from.

[@moniXluv]

No. 99.99% of people are role-playing hobbits, not halflings.

[@rodolfor2957]

No gnomes?

[@TheFirstArcadianDnD]

Funny you should mention it, I'm doing research for the gnomes video as we speak XD I antecipate it should be out in December