@@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!
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
@@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
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.
@@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.
@@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
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!
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.
@@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**
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.
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.
@@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.”
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.
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. ^.^
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.
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.
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!
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!
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)
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.
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.
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"
@@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.
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.
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!"
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.
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.
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.
“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…
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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*
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.
I thought the luck was a literal divine blessing, and that evil forces often failed to find halfling settlements out of pure hapenstance, keeping them safe often miraculously much longer than other races.
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.
"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!
Started playing DnD with my best friends a few weeks ago. We're playing the old "starter kit" with the Lost Mines module. I'm playing the Halfling Rogue from that starter kit, who is a criminal, used to work for that criminal organisation, got almost killed by that organisation and now wants his revenge. While I have no problem playing him that way, I'm basically "ignoring" the fact, that he's a Halfling, because his criminal background doesn't really work with him being a Halfling for me.
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.
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
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.
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
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)
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.
The way you described the lucky feat makes me feel the optimal way to rp it would be to have the crit fail you originally rolled be played out like if you didn't have it, but then you go on to continue the action appropriately based on the reroll. Things go just as bad for you as they would for any other party member but you just carry on as though it's fine the best you can.
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
A halfling is just a hobbit if you replace the hairy feet with the lucky feat.
_Nice one_
Heh
I love and hate this.
This comment deserves to be awarded Inspiration.
this is true, because it rhymes.
Halfling: "Damn kids these days."
The rest of the party: "Bruh, you’re only 20 years old."
Human: "Kids these days."
Halfling: "Buddy, you're only 50 years old."
Imagine rolplaying a halfling as a grandparent constantly amazed about what his grandchild is doing...
@@migfrarummet1907 Elves …
"Your great grandparents used to say the same thing".
@@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!
#relatable
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
I like to imagine that it means that in bicycle culture
@@simon-patrickjohnson As someone who bikes yeah it do mean that
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.
@@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
Very cool phrase! Nice and optimistic
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.
A. nonymous the lich: once you know the true meaning of life are like that hafling over there
Now I want to make a halfling wizard who researches magic because she just thinks it's neat.
@@lindseyfrancesco4 Isn't that what wizards are? They think it's neat so they spend 50,000 Gp to go to school about it
"You know what you guys call 'vibing'? We just do that all day, everyday."
@@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.
Little known fact, the average halfling is just three missed meals away from cannibalism.
DARK SUN IS CALLING!!
Littler Known fact, Halfing have roughly 12 meals a day, so a day trip through the woods is guaranteed to end in several felonies.
@@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
@@viktord2025 Oh?
@@viktord2025 do tell
That door knocking sound effect was a little TOO real!
i legit put down my head phones and picked up a gun and went to my door lol
My wooden door to my backyard is the perfect distance away to my right. Dude actually wants to cause some heart attacks lol.
I have no door to my right from where I was sitting, and immediately jumped up and looked for a door in confusion.
For real!
Yeah I was wearing headphones and thought somebody is knocking on my wall at 3 AM lol
Runesmith at the end of the video: "Alright, get lost..."
Halflings: "Sounds fun, I'll pack a lunch!"
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!
@@opus5770 I found the stout halfling
@@feywildheart2878 actually a lightfoot, but a well-fed one 😂😂😂
I really like “drinking lemonade” being halfling code for pipeweed
Same
Yesssssssir
Whoa it’s still weird/cool to see another TH-camr I folllow comment on another TH-camrs! 😂
Hey you. Hope you're having a good day.
Wait is that actually what it means? I literally thought he just said lemonade because lemonade tastes kinda nice.
imagine a halfling barbarian where they just say “I’m cross with you” calmly when they enter their rage
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.
@@JT5555 F it, I'm stealing this now. Thanks for the idea.
@@saulesalejos4483 enjoy and be sure to let me know how it goes.XD
@@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**
Halflings are for when you wanna put a smile on everyone's face.
And Gnomes are when you wanna put frowns on them!
Unless it’s Eberron
"Short hairy hippies who wear rings... Basically sonic the hedgehog"
Truer words were never said
Ringo Starr
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.
that is so cursed
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.
I mean in Tolkien, they are a human subrace, they just varied enough that they became their own people.
@@effigytormented no they aren't it stated that the don't really have the epic backstory that the the others races have
@@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.”
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.
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. ^.^
A quarterling one could say
@@s33dwallice80 CongratuIations, I hate and like this joke at the same time
@@s33dwallice80 I came here to say this too! Hehehe... quarterling 😆
@@s33dwallice80 Quarterlings were an actual thing in D&D at one point.
I like playing halfling because, unlike me, they’re immune to failure.
I always found it akward
How am I supposed to roleplay someone immune to myself?
Halflings are so damn chill and I want to be like them and I love them. I need a friggin' vacation.
We all do, pal😆
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.
I love how he refers go the taller races as Twicelings.
@@DHTheAlaskan I admit, I borrowed that one from Rusty & Co.
@@FanOfMostEverything first time i have heard about rusty & co
“Halflings are either rambling tourists or raging alcoholics.”
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.
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.
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!
Best Spotify recommendation ever
Basically the best series on TH-cam
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!
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)
Have you run a game yet?
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.
They're lawful in 5e? They're chaotic good in like every other edition
I dunno. Maybe it's just this video sarcasm or joke
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.
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"
@@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.
@@Yabuturtle Exactly~!
1:43 damn, Halflings would actually make pretty good Monks.
I'm playing one right now. He's a bullheaded little shit, with a chip on his shoulder but I love him so!
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.
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.
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@@TheDharmaNerd XD
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!"
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
Day 17 asking Runesmith to do a Basically Theros
Ancient Greece, less sex crimes and more hydras and a less chill god of the underworld
@@basicpigeonbee The Zeus Expy, however, is just about as "chill" as the real thing 🙃
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.
I want to be a dwarf running an orphanage of Halflings, with the help of a gnome. That would be perfect.
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.
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.
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"
That knock scared the fuck out of me. I love my headphones but wow!
Right? I got dressed back up and crept up to my front door to look for interlopers.
Halfling + divination wizard + lucky feat = laugh at DM
Even better if you start with a level in Divine Soul sorc
@@Mare_Man and if your party has two half orc death clerics then the laughs never end
@@troperhghar9898 death or grave?
@@xcalixus when I DM the two are one and the same
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.
Enemy: _breaks sword_
Halfling: Fool! Now I have TWO SWORDS!
Drakenheim is just Mordheim. That being said that makes me really want it.
Yeah...I need to play Mordheim again.
“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…
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.
The idea of Halflings basically being born retired kind of reminds me of the Patagonians from Last and First Men.
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.
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.
That knocking sounds literally had me saying "come in!" thinking it was my roommate knocking on my door lmao
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.
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
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.
A whole race of the definition of “vibing”
1:00 That scared the fuck out of me because I have a window to my right that leads to the house patio and I thought someone was knocking on that shit.
This is beautiful. I've watched this for an hour now.
You can sum up Halflings with one simple phrase:
"Aye, but what about SECOND breakfast?"
RuneDude: “99% of halflings are peaceful zen gardeners”
Me: finally... I’m apart of the one percent.
Basically my favorite D&D creator
the knock at the beginning genuinely had me go to my door and i was so confused as to why no one was there
I didn't really like Halflings that much, but this video kinda gave me a new perspective, might play a Halfling once my forever-DM curse is lifted :)
Halflings with the lucky feat are simply beautiful
1:02 That door knock is genuinely evil, it sounds like it is coming from outside of my headphones and you should feel bad.
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*
That knock scared this shit outta me at night LOL
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!
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.
I thought the luck was a literal divine blessing, and that evil forces often failed to find halfling settlements out of pure hapenstance, keeping them safe often miraculously much longer than other races.
5:25 Can confirm, homegrown tomatoes are stellar.
Have had homemade marinara sauce, shit is cash
That door knock at the start scared the crap out of me. Cool video bro.
I love Halflings. One of my favorite races.
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.
"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!
Started playing DnD with my best friends a few weeks ago. We're playing the old "starter kit" with the Lost Mines module. I'm playing the Halfling Rogue from that starter kit, who is a criminal, used to work for that criminal organisation, got almost killed by that organisation and now wants his revenge. While I have no problem playing him that way, I'm basically "ignoring" the fact, that he's a Halfling, because his criminal background doesn't really work with him being a Halfling for me.
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.
You know you’re a good dnd youtuber when you get 9,000 views in 45 minutes, not many can say that
Everyone forgets about the ghostwise halflings.
But that was in Sword Coast Adventure's guide so that makes sense.
That knock at 1:01 gave me a heart attack because it's 1am.
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
LOGAN YOU NEED TO STOP USING THAT DOOR KNOCKING SOUND EFFECT I THINK ITS REAL EVERY TIME
SAME LMAO
I love runesmith's videos, they are very good and funny
Oh I am so making my next dnd character a plant-obsessed (druid) halfling who just wants to grow the best garden
That door knock sounded so legit it scared me...
I am currently* outside
Jeeezes That Nazgul Knock was genuinely scary, 1000/10 Audio work there.
6:19 That one halfling going:
"I'm the mother-loving-mailman!"
Holy fucking shit when the Nazgul knocked on the door that sounded like somebody was knocking on my door and it scared the shit out of me.
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.
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
This is exactly why I love Halflings, and thank you for putting it into words.
Best way to roleplay their luck is by making the Billed Murray build
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
1:01 my headphones are good enough I actually thought that knock was real, good job
That knocking sound was heckin' terrifying.
Whenever I want to roleplay a peasant-to-hero character, I just roll a halfling instead.
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)
So what i learnt from this video is that you have to be absolutely blazed to properly roleplay a halfling
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.
Ok I don't know what it was but that knocking effect was done so well I legitly thought it came from the wall behind me.
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
"Halflings can become zealots"
*Late-campaign Beverly intensifies*
Bro that knock scared the crap out of me
1:00, that shit had me jumping because I heard a knocking door from my left, where there is nothing but a basement wall.
the knocking scared the absolute bejesus out of me
Well, now I want to play a halfling again. Thanks for reminding me how fun they are.
The way you described the lucky feat makes me feel the optimal way to rp it would be to have the crit fail you originally rolled be played out like if you didn't have it, but then you go on to continue the action appropriately based on the reroll. Things go just as bad for you as they would for any other party member but you just carry on as though it's fine the best you can.
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
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