Eternity Does Anyone Even Like Halflings?

[S.torch]

Honestly this thread surprises me. I'd have expected people in this neck of the woods having problems with tieflings rather than halflings, seeing how ubiquitous they've become.

OP's question is "who wants to play as one?", and clearly lots of people want to play as a tiefling

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=946925

The surprising thing here is that people still find joy playing elves and humans, when developers have tried everything in their hands to nerf all fantasy races that aren't the OC donut steel ones.

 

[Poseidon00]

Short answer: Yes

Long answer: don't need it, we're playing as halflings

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Halflings, like in real life, are useless Satan spawn

 

[Gerrard]

I'll just leave this here.
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[rojay]

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What and why?

 

[Gerrard]

I'll just leave this here.
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What and why?

I would imagine brothels are the second most common establishment after inns when it comes to fantasy RPG settings, not sure what is so confusing?

 

[rojay]

Manga halfling prostitute is outside my wheelhouse, I guess.

 

[itsme]

I remember reading some character race polls before the launch of BG3. Halflings were the least popular race. Most popular were tieflings, dragonborn and drow iirc.

So why is the books called "Lord of the Rings" anyway? Who was that lord? A halfling.

 

[Odoryuk]

Only people who themselves look like halflings hate to play as them or hate them in general

 

[catfood]

I hate all fantasy races equally. Humans uber alles.

 

[oscar]

Halflings are cool. I instinctively hated gnomes (who feel ridiculous as any class but wizard, halflings are just large enough that they could conceivably be dangerous with enough skill) even before Arcanum. Dwarves are boring but fine.

Tiefling players are subhumans without fail.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Tiefling players are subhumans without fail.

Reminder of what actual tieflings look like:

Though they only make sense in the Planescape setting and should never have been incorporated into another one.

 

[Just Locus]

Tiefling players are subhumans without fail.

They removed the notion that tieflings are ostracized in their race's description in the recent 2024 edition of 5e because almost every player who chooses Tiefling can't resist the urge to project their psychological issues and childhood problems into the fucking game, we can't have them being ostracized.

 

[Reinhardt]

Dwarves are the worst because we're supposed to believe that they're somehow good warriors, when in reality their range disadvantage should make them easily owned by any normal sized humanoids.

yes, yes, some naked tribal spearchukka with pointy wooden stick easily owning superior warrior in finest armor in the world. that's how combat works.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I am a tall guy. I already see halflings everywere in rl, so I don't care.

 

[canakin]

I am working on my own fantasy setting where halflings are a long extinct race. They died out because of the rampant faggotry in their culture.

 

[Reinhardt]

but why? why add them to your setting at all? are you fag or what?

 

[Reinhardt]

that's main problem with modern games. before developers added things they thought are cool to their games. now they add shit they hate to own the chuds/libs. that's why we can't have good things anymore.

 

[Jaedar]

I've played a halfling in warhammer pnp, it was cool.

I've never created a halfling in any crpg, and probably never will.

 

[Yosharian]

I fucking hate halflings.
I fucking hate gnomes.

I fucking hate dwarves.

 

[thesecret1]

The only setting I've ever seen that had cool halflings was Warhammer Fantasy, and that's because they were a race of food-obsessed mobsters that ran delicacy stores and restaurants to launder money. Which kinda highlights the issue with halflings in other settings – they're boring as fuck! They're just pastoral midgets, that's it. And game writers recognize this because they constantly try to warp the "patoral" part into something else so that it'd make sense to go adventuring with said background, usually ending up with "annoying retard midgets" instead (see kenders and other resulting abominations). Even Tolkien made it a point, repeatedly, that Bilbo was a massive exception in that he went on an adventure instead of being a happy pastoral midget forever, and that the rest of the Shire thought him weird for it.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I'm sure that while fighting colossal dragons and storm giants, those 30 cm are really going to make a difference.

Don't they have bonuses against giant creatures?

 

[Karwelas]

In NWN, a friend and I would join hardcore rules RP servers as a duo of halflings with thievery maxed, feats and all. We'd then pickpocket and steal everything we could until we got caught and killed or booted from the server. It was a lot of fun. We'd create ruses of all sorts. One of us would distract while the other robbed someone blind. Some high quality servers even had jails. One of which I genuinely busted my friend out of once. Players never knew if we were a DM, so we used that to our advantage leading people on "quests".

Other than being such a menace, I don't see the appeal of playing a halfling. There were some players who made halflings work, but the concepts would have worked fine as other races too.

Being NWN player myself, it was easily possible how to check if someone is a DM or if someone is a player - NPCs didn't give you option to use DM/tell/private message to someone if you clicked their portrait!

Still, a very nice way to disturb the game unlike some fucks who ran in as purple gnomes around or some other shit. Low tier stuff, basically!

 

[Grunker]

I used to be *the* anti-Halfling campaigner, but ever since dragonkin became ubiquitous it has seemed superfluous to hate on the little guys. Like telling your kid not to spill water on the floor during a tsunami

 

[thesecret1]

I used to be *the* anti-Hal fling campaigner, but ever since dragon kin became ubiquitous it has seemed superfluous to hate on the little guys. Like telling your kid not to spill water on the floor during a tsunami

Furry races serve as a useful warning that the setting is going to be terrible shit, and one's better off avoiding it.