Are there any good halflings besides Hobbits?

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Are there any good halflings besides Hobbits?

#1 worry

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Posted 10 June 2022 - 05:44 AM

In all of tantasy-dom, are there any good halflings besides the Hobbits?

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Posted 10 June 2022 - 07:49 AM

Do Gnomes count?

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Posted 10 June 2022 - 08:03 AM

Yah gnomes count, if they're like this. Terry Brooks has halfling-style gnomes in Shannara, but they're all buttholes.

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Posted 10 June 2022 - 08:05 AM

theres one or two in the forgotten realms, but as a general rule, halflings be weak AF

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Posted 10 June 2022 - 08:07 AM

Willow?
Tasslehoff Burrfoot?

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Posted 10 June 2022 - 11:34 AM

Tsundoku, on 10 June 2022 - 08:07 AM, said:

Willow?
Tasslehoff Burrfoot?

Both good.

Nelwyns and Kenders respectively.

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Posted 10 June 2022 - 12:30 PM

worry, on 10 June 2022 - 05:44 AM, said:

In all of tantasy-dom, are there any good halflings besides the Hobbits?

Miles Vorkosigan is a great halfling.

I've always thought Regis from Forgotten Realms was a terrible character.

I don't really know anything about Mazzy from D&D, but she seems to be known.

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Posted 10 June 2022 - 07:13 PM

QuickTidal, on 10 June 2022 - 11:34 AM, said:

Tsundoku, on 10 June 2022 - 08:07 AM, said:

Willow?
Tasslehoff Burrfoot?

Both good.

Nelwyns and Kenders respectively.

Seconding Kender.

Old ADnD had a campaign world, Black Sun, that included tribes of feral halflings riding around the desert on velociraptors.

Dark Crystal Gelflings... the name suggests elves but i always thought they were closer to skinny Hobbits/Halflings than anything else.

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Posted 10 June 2022 - 10:40 PM

Then what are the podlings? Quarterlings?

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Posted 11 June 2022 - 09:00 PM

Tasslehoff Burrfoot the kender in Dragonlance, already offered.

Mazzy Fentan (who Amph mentioned) is a really lovely playable NPC in Baldur's Gate 2 - she wants to be a paladin, but none of the knightly orders will take her because she's a halfling. She's a sweetheart with absolutelty iron principles. I don't know if she ever made it out of the game into any other media though.

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Posted 13 June 2022 - 01:18 AM

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 13 June 2022 - 09:21 AM

D, on 13 June 2022 - 01:18 AM, said:

Surely you jest? Those irritating little plot-armoured hairballs should have all ended up as bloody smears under an AT-STs feet.

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Posted 13 June 2022 - 01:28 PM

Tsundoku, on 13 June 2022 - 09:21 AM, said:

Surely you jest? Those irritating little plot-armoured hairballs should have all ended up as bloody smears under an AT-STs feet.

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worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 13 June 2022 - 02:29 PM

Tsundoku, on 13 June 2022 - 09:21 AM, said:

Surely you jest? Those irritating little plot-armoured hairballs should have all ended up as bloody smears under an AT-STs feet.

Ever wondered what happened to the heads?

Or why they were planning on bbq'ing Han?

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Posted 13 June 2022 - 09:32 PM

Second breakfast.

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Posted 21 June 2022 - 02:16 PM

Belkar Bitterleaf, the sexy shoeless god of war himself.

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Posted 21 June 2022 - 04:00 PM

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 11 June 2022 - 09:00 PM, said:

Mazzy now has her own MtG card in which she's achieved the dream of being a paladin.

https://twitter.com/...9L9Yoclpjw&s=19

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Posted 29 June 2022 - 09:25 AM

Low-hanging fruit, certainly, but if Mazzy gets a place, Alora should too. Didn't take her along too many times but am pretty sure she wasn't all evil

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Posted 29 June 2022 - 11:03 AM

Regis is (deliberately) an arsehole but there are better halflings in the Forgotten Realms, particularly in the Finder's Bane Trilogy. Given there's an entire massive kingdom of halflings in the Realms (Luiren) it's weird they never done anything much with it in the books.

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