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"Yes! We'll be done by tea time at this rate! Our small forms are finally advantageous as we slip past the bars of gates and invade the big folk from the inside!" The halfling soldier.
I really like the idea of the fearless halflings. Not in the bravery sense, like the Hobbits of old, but just a halfling who realized everything could kill them pretty easily. So to them, the hulking goliath barbarian is no more threatening than the shop owner across the street. Just completely unfazed by feats of strength, nonplussed by intimidation tactics, unmoved by a dragon's roar, etc. Something here can kill me in an instant? Eh, it's just another Tuesday...
Not everything is equally threatening but everything is so highly threatening that it doesn't even matter anymore. When everything has a 95% chance of killing you are you really going to give that much more of a shit about something with a 98% chance of doing it?
"Living with a toddler, I look at him and think 'you know if I gave this kid a sword, that would be terrifying..." Jim Davis: expert DM and parental advice.
Joshua Richardson I'm in my first campaign ever and that's exactly what I am. My character runs around the battlefield, slapping my team on the ass casting cure wounds and shield of faith. I also pop out from between our fighters legs yelling "surprise mother fucker" while swinging with my mace. I didn't know how much I needed this game in my life lol.
Halflings are by far my favorite race. All of the characters I want to make seem to start as a halfling. Halfling thieves, bards, barbarians, and of course my main man. Thomas Shortwick, draconic sorcerer
I think you guys forgot about the Took Clan from the original Hobbit and LoTR, They live in the Shire with the quiet and pastoral folk, but they're considered "not respectable" because they went off on adventures, Bilbo had a Took mother and whenever he does something adventurous and bold the narrator talks about "his Tookish side". The adventuring halfling has never been their societal norm and I don't know about the stealing from allies, but they've always been there. I also blame Tolkien for the human halfling homogeneity, Bree is apparently full of hobbits.
Awwwww! Not one mention of Dark Sun's Halfling... 2ed Complete book of halflings said it best: Halfling rangers are rarely ever seen. Not that they don't exist, you just never see them"
My headcannon/home brew concept for Hobbits is that they are agricultural based small hippies who sell EXCELLENT and HIGH QUALITY fruits and vegetables to any allied humanoids, Halflings at a young age leave to get their adventure itch scratched, then, upon returning settle down and become proper halflings, it'd be a sort of coming-of-age thing.
For me, when I think halfling I think of my monk. A may be tiny but I have a 20 strength and you're still getting punched to death. He was specifically a dragonhunter. He could run as fast as they flew and launch himself up to face them in air XD
super agree with the first point about them just being there in Faerun for no reason (but then again lots of things in Faerun don’t make sense) Eberron halfling tho. that’s where it’s at
I like how they did it in fifth edition, the way they made them very community focused kind of gives that hobbit feel without making them just a race of people who never wants to leave their damn home.
Think it took me months to realise that 5E halflings' most common alignment was Lawful Good. It just seemed so jarring to the image I had of halflings, as wandering tricksters & rogues, when they are all about community and sticking together. I mean, it kinda makes sense in hindsight, but still caught me off-guard.
I was wondering, when comparing the crit damage of two-handing a longsword 2D10 (2-20) to a greatsword 3D6 (3-18), why wouldn't the greatsword damage be 4D6 (4-24)? I thought a critical hit caused you to double all damage dice that would normally be rolled for that hit, like sneak attack for rogues.
2H Longsword = 1d10 Greatsword = 2d6 Critical hit = roll all damage dice again I think they were thinking crits add one die of weapon damage (so 2d10 vs 3d6) but that's not correct. It'd be 2d10 vs 4d6.
I think a lot of people do it with the Paladin class also, as you can easily summon a "mount" when they invariably die in battle (mastiffs have low hp). Also, pick up a Lance. You'll get a heavy hitting weapon with +5 reach that only needs one hand while mounted (can have shield or second weapon in offhand, theoretically TWO LANCES lol), but when off the mount you need two hands. Either way, a melee halfling is so much fun. I went Dex, two weapon fighting, stout halfling. Criminal background, and I actually pumped Con first, I now have more HP at level 7 than anyone else in our party. I have fun Dex proficiencies for stealth, sleight of hand, thieves tool kit and decent Charisma for some intimidation/deception to boot. I'm a rogeulike fighter in utility, who happens to be a tank and a whirlwind of rapier pokes.
I didn't know that you lived in VT! I live in New Hampshire! I moved back from Dallas last year. I've been playing D&D for about 5 or 6 months now, and I just want to tell you that what you guys are doing is amazing. As soon as I started playing I got into your videos and I watched all of them and this is the highlight of my Wednesday. So thank you for doing this. If you're ever in the Keene NH area, don't be afraid to gimme a shout.
I started laughing at the part about taking people's knees off, I have a player in my group who is playing a halfling warlock who screams KNEECAPS as he charges in to battle.
Most of my roleplaying interactions with halflings throughout the years have shown them to be energetic, happy, eccentric, and most importantly, when it's go time, Ultra Fucking Violent. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Williow, awesome movie. Mass polymorph, "Pigs, your all pigs" Our first game I got my brother to play, he rolled up a Kinder and we spent hours getting the characters tools up and ready to go. Within 10 min they were captured, knocked out, taken deep in the Undermountain, and about to be sold as slaves. They organized a frantic escape as the slavers and guards were busy dealing with multiple Beholders that had wandered into the slave auction. Anyway Kinders were awesome and a pain.
My personal favorite halfling beasmaster companion is the pterodactyl. It's ridiculous because you just see this little man flying around the sky on the back of a dinosaur. It's beautiful.
I just started curse of strahd as a halfling oath of ancients paladin and you guys gave me a lot of food for thought! Ser Strong Nogglust is a pious warrior of the light!
Haha that ending. You guys aren't the only d&d talks channel I watch, but you may be my favourite. Aside from having interesting things to say, you have good chemistry with each other, are respectful to each other and just really comfortable. Your whole package deal makes your videos relaxing and entertaining as well as informative and thought-provoking.
I played a Kender cleric in our Dragonlance Campaign. She viewed other peoples pockets as unused storage space so I was always putting random trinkets in peoples pockets, colorful rocks, bright feathers or a particularly shiny button. I had a lot of fun with it, also gave up a lot of excess coin to other party members that way.
In my setting, halflings are heavily based on the Aiel and the Fremen. They live in the desert, are believed to be few in number and survive as nomadic raiders, but in fact have large communities living together in their sietch. They're masters of desert survival, rich as hell, have tons of water. They're ferocious combatants, and have a zeal born of powerful tradition, honour, and religious belief.
I actually got an idea for a Halfling Druid from you guys. Back during your druid class video, I really liked the idea of a druid naturalist who studies animals. I added a monk level for unarmored defense for both utility and her backstory growing up in a monastery. But she is basically Nigel Thornberry but a small Halfling woman.
Dont forget that Bountiful Luck feat for that halfling wizard. I had the same build idea, except my guy enjoyed basically giving the middle finger to fate.
I make Gnomes absolutely small compared to the Halflings. Gnomes are treated the same as Humans, Elves, Orcs and Dwarves. They are a pure race. Gnomes are too small to procreate with anything bigger than them. I denote subspecies as sort of based on where that member of the race is found.
I've always pictured gnomes as smaller than halflings too. A halfling might average 3 to 3-1/2 feet and top out at four for one of the subraces, but a gnome at 3-feet tall would be considered tall (again, depending on subrace).
in a manner i like the origin story for the kender but not the kender themselves. perhaps a proto group like humans got split into the dwarves and gnomes and then a subrace formed over time to become halflings.
My very first D&D character was my halfling Druid in 3.5. There's definitely nostalgia involved but I still love halflings as a race. I'm working on a halfling monk who's a cook. This is a great source for ideas of how to incorporate more halflings in my world as a DM though. Also Pruitt was so proud of his "big feat/feet" pun!
Jim Davis! I created your "luck halfling" character and I love him! His name is Fluke Foresight and his "spellbook" is a deck of cards. He stopped a charging adult dragon by casting Hypnotic Pattern on it and forcing a roll of 1 on the saving throw (Portent). So much fun!
Another fantastic show. You guys inspired me too play Tuffnot my take on the half barbarian. I've got a bunch of other great ideas. Consistently the best D&D changed on TH-cam.
One of the players in my current campaign is playing a Halfling Wizard. Magic Missile focused, she enjoys raining evocations down on our enemies. Winds up being the artillery for the Meatshield-y party. Plays her as a very lore and research-focused, sort of "Student of the Arcane" wizard.
Hah, the talk of an ape mount and "Master to its Blaster" brings me back to a super fun Halfling I played way back. He wasn't a Beastmaster or anything, but he did a similar setup... with my buddy's Half-Orc character for a mount instead of an ape! They were Mikey the Halfling and Mickey the Half-Orc, and were specifically built to work together like that. Mike was entirely built around support, with absolutely zero offensive capability of his own, all of his abilities were based around beefing up Mic and giving him stuff like free attacks and movements. Mickey was a fighter/rogue who hit like a friggin' mac-truck just on his own, but with Mikey's help he blasted his way around the battlefield like a god damn freight train!
Wendell O'Malley- A soldier thrown out of the local Legion, stumbling upon a magical shapeshifting cap/hood/hat/circlet, etc. that instills a drive to become a thief. Basically a mild twist on the "halfling thief" archetype.
A player in my Tomb of Annihilation Meat Grinder campaign is playing a similar concept as Jim's halfling wizard. Human Diviner Wizard 2/Divine Soul Sorcerer with Lucky. The chosen emmisary of an ancient, obscure dwarven luck god. The dice manipulation is super powerful. Walking around with the ability to negate crits, increase initiative, pass or fail saving throws at crucial moments, he's single handedly kept the entire party alive on multiple occasions when variance was not on their side, and could counteract it. Really cool to watch play, seems fun to play.
Piratecat's story hour had a great halfling wizard named Agar - he either came from or had spent time in the Far Realm and had levels in a Cthulu-esque presitge class. Like a really friendly tiny mad scientist type, but with tentacles popping out of his and his familiar's bodies at odd moments.
I recently created a halfling sorcerer that's under the divine soul origin. Essentially Yarras is a prophet for Annam, the Giant Deity whose only spells consist of similar giant elements and effects, such as gust, but also has enlarge. I can't wait to play them
I actually rolled a Sorcerer version of the Halfling Jim was talking about, started him about two months ago. aiming for 6 levels of Wild Magic Sorcerer for the Bend Luck Feature, 3 levels Bard for College of Lore, and 2 Levels Wizard for the School of Divination. Our DM let us start with a Feat so I chose Lucky, first ability score increase Bountiful Luck from Xanathar's. I asked my DM if Leprechauns existed in his world, so I based that as the reason for his wild magic "Gram gram had a fling with a Leprechaun. It left it's mark."
In the campaign I'm playing in, all homebrew, devised by both players and dm, we made halflings and gnomes be perpetually embroiled in a bitter, bloody race war to end all race wars, with the Goliath to mediate the conflict just for shits and giggles. Looking at it over a year later, its a hilariously terrifying experience and probably the most interesting way i have ever heard of Halflings being played.
My first official experience with dnd was a book called practical guide to dragons. It was a children's book during 3.5 that was just like a non-gaming version of the draconomicon. It was written mostly as biological information, but with embellishments from a young kender, and I didn't even know it was DND based. Great book, alongside the entire practical guide series.
One of my players is running a halfling lore bard/awakened mystic in my storm kings thunder campaign. He is an absolute terror against giants. He can’t take a hit but he’s so good at disabling Giants because they have terrible wisdom saves. He’s been the character that the rest of the party rallies behind.
I’m currently playing in a 5e game as a Stout Halfling Moon Druid, along with my friend a halfling Barbarian, and we clean house! I agree with all the advice given here...
Playing a Halfling Monk - way of Shadow, and it's a great combo. Stealth master supreme moving around the battlefield with ease. Dex bonus for monk attacks and armor. Monk counteracts the lower speed. Plus it's just cool to try to play up looking completely non-threatening.
I have been playing a halfling wizard exactly as described by Jim for the past five weeks. He is basically a short, young Gandalf the Grey, with some quirks of Sherlock Holmes. He had is a Transmutationist, and loves smoking pipes.
My favorite concepts with halflings have always been pairing them with classes that bolster their martial capabilities... You wouldn't expect a halfling to be particularly strong, after all...then a barbarian halfing cleaves an orc's legs off at the knees...or a paladin halfling propelling a gnoll across the room with a thunderous smite...or a halfling monk zooming around, leaping a high-kick to the bottom of a goliath's jaw.
Funny you mention the halfling Napoleon idea, one of my BBEG is a Halfing in the campaign I’m running right now. It’s called the city of the nine realms and it’s founder has been living of the lives of the inhabitants through a spell called hex of ages where she takes half the years they’re meant to live and gives it to herself.
My favorite character I've ever played was a mountain troll ranger. He's the runt of the litter (literally named Runt) and he fights by being sneaky, smart, and savage. Tunnel Fighter style and Gloomstalker conclave feels really thematic for how a small troll would fight. He's 8'2" and 700 lbs, but he's effectively a wilderness rogue. I've never had as much fun in combat, and roleplaying an intelligent "small" troll was really engaging.
New player here, love the idea of making a Halfling that has known another PC for the most of their lives and they've been friends for so long they sort of "went with the flow" and before they knew it BAM! now they're adventuring and trying to steal the loot from a dragon's lair, why? because they don't get scared easily and "their friend would be lonely without them around and we can't have that now can we?"
I've had a character idea kicking around in my head of a halfling transmuter wizard named Mouse. She used to literally be a mouse picking around through a wizard's tower when, being caught by the wizard, was greater polymorphed into a halfling and made to clean up his mess. The wizard, taking a liking to his new servant, decides to keep her as an apprentice. Her inspiration for adventure would be to go out and find her master after he leaves the tower on an errand, but doesn't return.
One of the best Halflings I have played is a Stout Halfling Barbarian using Bear totem for the half damage. He was Boscoe the Monster Hunter and had a big dog called Roscoe. They ended up being called the Boscoe and Roscoe Show. The whole party was actually afraid that if something went wrong the rest of the party would not be unable to bring him down.
I joined back with my mates and am playing a halfling barbarian in a exploration of multiple islands using fancy boats and such and am ready to charge in and just be the little crazy halfling when we start doing combat
The country that halflings come from in my homebrew is a mix of the Italian Renaissance flair/indulgence, Swiss militant neutrality, and "A Brave New World" style of government control through "enforced happiness".
You guys should do an episode or a series of episodes based on adventure environments, like coastal, forest, arctic, etc. Did you guys do that? I don’t remember. Anyway I love your work Web Dm!
Hobbits living in cities would be interesting, big cities filled with humans, dwarves, elves and so on. And then we have a quarter where the "tiny folk" life with housing more suited to smaller sizes. Gnomes, of course, will have their influence there too. But yeah I think the best way for them to survive is to be smart. But then again I think every race should influence the area they life in. Elves probably would create a more artistic and green area in the city. If they can get their hands on an area like such.
I'm playing a halfling divination wizard. Taking the Bountiful Luck, Lucky, and Second Chance Feat has made the character such a unique challenge for my DM; because none of his rolls are set in stone. Super fun and my friends have really reconsidered halflings.
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'' the best way to live a comfortable life is to conquer your enemies''- Halfling general
Tanya Degurechaff, is that you?
NO :)
Halfling Paladin of Conquest
"Well, that escalated quickly."
"Did you just make a joke about my height?!"
"OH GODS, NO...!!!"
"Yes! We'll be done by tea time at this rate! Our small forms are finally advantageous as we slip past the bars of gates and invade the big folk from the inside!" The halfling soldier.
That intro wasn't half bad.
it was a little short...
I saw the title and knew they had it in the baggins
God, this comment section keeps lowering my expectations
Wyatt Mathers I'm sorry to fall so short.
I like a few fantasy puns every so often, but let's not make a hobbit of it.
I really like the idea of the fearless halflings. Not in the bravery sense, like the Hobbits of old, but just a halfling who realized everything could kill them pretty easily. So to them, the hulking goliath barbarian is no more threatening than the shop owner across the street. Just completely unfazed by feats of strength, nonplussed by intimidation tactics, unmoved by a dragon's roar, etc. Something here can kill me in an instant? Eh, it's just another Tuesday...
Everything is equally threatening?
no everything could kill him easily
Tuesday? lol
That makes so much sense
Not everything is equally threatening but everything is so highly threatening that it doesn't even matter anymore. When everything has a 95% chance of killing you are you really going to give that much more of a shit about something with a 98% chance of doing it?
human: "OMG! that wolf is as big as a grown man!!!"
halfling (unfased): "for us, every wolf is *at least* as tall as a grown man"
Gnome: Man this is a really furry tunnel
Hahahha
This brings me joy.
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Ah, the gnome chewtoy.
"Living with a toddler, I look at him and think 'you know if I gave this kid a sword, that would be terrifying..."
Jim Davis: expert DM and parental advice.
"Living with a toddler now .. What if i gave that kid a sword, that would be terrifying" Jim Davis, 2017
I live with a pair of toddlers. 2 and 5. The 5 year old (halfling size) is brutal with a light saber or nerf bat.
This is hands down the best D&D channel on TH-cam.
It's up there.
They are Pun Masters what do you expect? Haha
Jgosse oh yes. Based in e5 but explained so you can take it to other RPGs.
These guys and Matt Colville are my favorite 2
*Bullshit*
Halfling Barbarian ftw!!! No shin is safe!!!
Halfling Cleric as a battlefield medic, tumbling around and healing the party without the enemy even noticing. They didn't even mention this once.
No ankle unshanked.
Antlions are your worst enemies
make it a Stout, then call it Honeybadger
Joshua Richardson I'm in my first campaign ever and that's exactly what I am. My character runs around the battlefield, slapping my team on the ass casting cure wounds and shield of faith. I also pop out from between our fighters legs yelling "surprise mother fucker" while swinging with my mace. I didn't know how much I needed this game in my life lol.
Halflings are by far my favorite race. All of the characters I want to make seem to start as a halfling. Halfling thieves, bards, barbarians, and of course my main man. Thomas Shortwick, draconic sorcerer
TVlord5 seems like the good race version of the kobold in first Neverwinter nights
I think you guys forgot about the Took Clan from the original Hobbit and LoTR, They live in the Shire with the quiet and pastoral folk, but they're considered "not respectable" because they went off on adventures, Bilbo had a Took mother and whenever he does something adventurous and bold the narrator talks about "his Tookish side". The adventuring halfling has never been their societal norm and I don't know about the stealing from allies, but they've always been there. I also blame Tolkien for the human halfling homogeneity, Bree is apparently full of hobbits.
In D&D, I think those are the fallowhide subrace?
It's been a while, but I think I remember there were harfoots, stoors (stouts), and fallowhides.
also, they engaged in guerilla warfare with Saruman's men during the occupation of the Shire, which is AMAZING
Awwwww! Not one mention of Dark Sun's Halfling...
2ed Complete book of halflings said it best: Halfling rangers are rarely ever seen. Not that they don't exist, you just never see them"
Om nom nom
Wouldn't that female halfling be called Princess Mininoke?
You, Sir, just won the Internet :D
Halfling ranger with a wolf companion
I’m using fan art of her for my ghostwise halfling!
Wow Daniel... That ain't half bad!😁
(Seriously, I'm going to steal this character idea!)
Big fan of the Halfling Paladin because of the whole "no-fear" thing.
"You don't wanna shit your meal?"
Jim Davis, 2017
LOL
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I read this comment at the exctly same time he said it :D
I literally screamed.
That might be the best last line of any video. What a way to close the scene
Goddamn halflings.
Going on random adventures.
Not packing any handkerchiefs.
Dinosaur riding halflings that have gone native (Thank you Ebberon)
Jubes I'm really disappointed that the eberron halflings didn't get mentioned in the video :D same for the dark sun halflings.
Do it in Chult
I always felt bad for a little person in a D&D world. "Oh your a halfling!" "No I am just a really short human"
My headcannon/home brew concept for Hobbits is that they are agricultural based small hippies who sell EXCELLENT and HIGH QUALITY fruits and vegetables to any allied humanoids, Halflings at a young age leave to get their adventure itch scratched, then, upon returning settle down and become proper halflings, it'd be a sort of coming-of-age thing.
I have an idea of an overcompensating Halfling character who rides a battle-pig into battle. Super excited to play that one.
Eberron makes halflings super awesome and VERY important in the lore
I love that these two just embrace the crazy, right when it's needed.
For me, when I think halfling I think of my monk. A may be tiny but I have a 20 strength and you're still getting punched to death. He was specifically a dragonhunter. He could run as fast as they flew and launch himself up to face them in air XD
super agree with the first point about them just being there in Faerun for no reason (but then again lots of things in Faerun don’t make sense)
Eberron halfling tho. that’s where it’s at
Halflings in Faerûn are from the land of Lurien in the Shining South
Eberron in general was where it's at
I like how they did it in fifth edition, the way they made them very community focused kind of gives that hobbit feel without making them just a race of people who never wants to leave their damn home.
The sad part is that Pruitt's face photoshopped onto the halfling from the 5e Player's Handbook is an improvement.
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God, I'm slow
Ben Walters literally the reason I started watching this channel. I knew there would be puns.
Oh man, I'm even slower XD
It might be interesting to hear Jim just talk about how Willow has inspired him.
I can’t wait for the Gnome’s episode
Yeah, their episode is gonna be awesome! I can't wait either.
Think it took me months to realise that 5E halflings' most common alignment was Lawful Good. It just seemed so jarring to the image I had of halflings, as wandering tricksters & rogues, when they are all about community and sticking together. I mean, it kinda makes sense in hindsight, but still caught me off-guard.
I heard the word Kender and got visibly upset.
Yeah, kender are not halflings...
technically they are halflings, if halflings were mentally deficient and high functioning autistic.
Immortal Wolf you do realise that's a contradictory statement right
I was wondering, when comparing the crit damage of two-handing a longsword 2D10 (2-20) to a greatsword 3D6 (3-18), why wouldn't the greatsword damage be 4D6 (4-24)? I thought a critical hit caused you to double all damage dice that would normally be rolled for that hit, like sneak attack for rogues.
2H Longsword = 1d10
Greatsword = 2d6
Critical hit = roll all damage dice again
I think they were thinking crits add one die of weapon damage (so 2d10 vs 3d6) but that's not correct. It'd be 2d10 vs 4d6.
I'm seriously thinking about making a Halfling Fighter Cavalier who rides a Mastiff
David B Do it!
Third edition had a prestige class for exactly this haha
I want to, but I'm currently playing a Bard in my campaign but the Cavalier is my backup if he dies
I think a lot of people do it with the Paladin class also, as you can easily summon a "mount" when they invariably die in battle (mastiffs have low hp). Also, pick up a Lance. You'll get a heavy hitting weapon with +5 reach that only needs one hand while mounted (can have shield or second weapon in offhand, theoretically TWO LANCES lol), but when off the mount you need two hands. Either way, a melee halfling is so much fun. I went Dex, two weapon fighting, stout halfling. Criminal background, and I actually pumped Con first, I now have more HP at level 7 than anyone else in our party. I have fun Dex proficiencies for stealth, sleight of hand, thieves tool kit and decent Charisma for some intimidation/deception to boot. I'm a rogeulike fighter in utility, who happens to be a tank and a whirlwind of rapier pokes.
I didn't know that you lived in VT! I live in New Hampshire! I moved back from Dallas last year. I've been playing D&D for about 5 or 6 months now, and I just want to tell you that what you guys are doing is amazing. As soon as I started playing I got into your videos and I watched all of them and this is the highlight of my Wednesday. So thank you for doing this. If you're ever in the Keene NH area, don't be afraid to gimme a shout.
Yeah, I agree with the Halflings being shorted on lore.
I started laughing at the part about taking people's knees off, I have a player in my group who is playing a halfling warlock who screams KNEECAPS as he charges in to battle.
well KNEECAPS is a pretty standard battlecry... or is it just my neighborhood?
The magic card that perfectly describes any halfling barbarian, ankle shanker.
I laughed so hard when Jim Davis mentioned giving his toddler a sword.
Halflings in Tales of Maj'Eyal, a true roguelike, are known as conquerors.
I'd be interested in hearing about Jim's homebrew setting in detail, I find it useful to see how other DMs arranged everything
Dark Sun had the best halfling's. Small feral cannibals.
Redshirtbiker I was surprised Dark Sun wasn't mentioned
Didn't Eberon have them riding dinosaurs? I rather like that concept.
Yessss. I'm running darksun soon, and imma bust out the murderous pygmys.
I played a Halfling Bard in a Dark Sun game. I was a cannibal assassin that threatened to eat people to get information. That was fun.
Most of my roleplaying interactions with halflings throughout the years have shown them to be energetic, happy, eccentric, and most importantly, when it's go time, Ultra Fucking Violent.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
Williow, awesome movie. Mass polymorph, "Pigs, your all pigs"
Our first game I got my brother to play, he rolled up a Kinder and we spent hours getting the characters tools up and ready to go. Within 10 min they were captured, knocked out, taken deep in the Undermountain, and about to be sold as slaves. They organized a frantic escape as the slavers and guards were busy dealing with multiple Beholders that had wandered into the slave auction. Anyway Kinders were awesome and a pain.
Halflings. Everyone's favorite emergency food supply.
My personal favorite halfling beasmaster companion is the pterodactyl. It's ridiculous because you just see this little man flying around the sky on the back of a dinosaur. It's beautiful.
I just started curse of strahd as a halfling oath of ancients paladin and you guys gave me a lot of food for thought! Ser Strong Nogglust is a pious warrior of the light!
I LOVE when they do the behind the scenes outros, they are hilarious!!!!!
"You dont want to shit your meal?"
Haha that ending. You guys aren't the only d&d talks channel I watch, but you may be my favourite. Aside from having interesting things to say, you have good chemistry with each other, are respectful to each other and just really comfortable. Your whole package deal makes your videos relaxing and entertaining as well as informative and thought-provoking.
Thank you!!
Jim, that halfling ranger idea is AMAZING.
I played a Kender cleric in our Dragonlance Campaign. She viewed other peoples pockets as unused storage space so I was always putting random trinkets in peoples pockets, colorful rocks, bright feathers or a particularly shiny button. I had a lot of fun with it, also gave up a lot of excess coin to other party members that way.
Theres something truly and deeply satisfying about being a 3 foot tall MONSTER in combat.
Makes you feel nice and fuzzy inside
I love my Half Orc Forest circle druid... a custodian of nature torn between his natural rage and the search for inner peace.
In my setting, halflings are heavily based on the Aiel and the Fremen. They live in the desert, are believed to be few in number and survive as nomadic raiders, but in fact have large communities living together in their sietch. They're masters of desert survival, rich as hell, have tons of water. They're ferocious combatants, and have a zeal born of powerful tradition, honour, and religious belief.
I haven’t played a halfling but I have played a Jawa with the lucky feature and I had it 4 times a day. He later became a Jedi Master.
I actually got an idea for a Halfling Druid from you guys. Back during your druid class video, I really liked the idea of a druid naturalist who studies animals.
I added a monk level for unarmored defense for both utility and her backstory growing up in a monastery. But she is basically Nigel Thornberry but a small Halfling woman.
I miss that show lol, and his voice.
I have been sloooowly picking up small bits of videos from you and I just... Every one I see is entertaining and informative, thank you guys!
I like the idea of gnomes and halflings being pushed around for too long as the tiny punching bag. So they team up to conquer the world.
Dont forget that Bountiful Luck feat for that halfling wizard. I had the same build idea, except my guy enjoyed basically giving the middle finger to fate.
In my homebrew campaign i treat halflings as an actual half-race. They are the offspring of a Dwarf and a Human.
Lumpyrox how does that work if they are smaller than even gnomes. And there are subspecies.
I make Gnomes absolutely small compared to the Halflings. Gnomes are treated the same as Humans, Elves, Orcs and Dwarves. They are a pure race. Gnomes are too small to procreate with anything bigger than them. I denote subspecies as sort of based on where that member of the race is found.
I've always pictured gnomes as smaller than halflings too. A halfling might average 3 to 3-1/2 feet and top out at four for one of the subraces, but a gnome at 3-feet tall would be considered tall (again, depending on subrace).
in a manner i like the origin story for the kender but not the kender themselves. perhaps a proto group like humans got split into the dwarves and gnomes and then a subrace formed over time to become halflings.
The timing for this video is perfect, right as I am making 6 halfling characters for my players for a Grinch themed Xmas one shot.
"Pregnant with the last meal," sounds really weird when they say it.
Noximus Jamaicanus "Food baby" always disturbs me when said casually.
Amazing video as always guys!
"You don't wanna shit your meal?" HAH man I almost spit my drink XD
My very first D&D character was my halfling Druid in 3.5. There's definitely nostalgia involved but I still love halflings as a race. I'm working on a halfling monk who's a cook. This is a great source for ideas of how to incorporate more halflings in my world as a DM though.
Also Pruitt was so proud of his "big feat/feet" pun!
Jim Davis! I created your "luck halfling" character and I love him! His name is Fluke Foresight and his "spellbook" is a deck of cards. He stopped a charging adult dragon by casting Hypnotic Pattern on it and forcing a roll of 1 on the saving throw (Portent). So much fun!
Another fantastic show. You guys inspired me too play Tuffnot my take on the half barbarian.
I've got a bunch of other great ideas. Consistently the best D&D changed on TH-cam.
One of the players in my current campaign is playing a Halfling Wizard. Magic Missile focused, she enjoys raining evocations down on our enemies. Winds up being the artillery for the Meatshield-y party. Plays her as a very lore and research-focused, sort of "Student of the Arcane" wizard.
Hah, the talk of an ape mount and "Master to its Blaster" brings me back to a super fun Halfling I played way back. He wasn't a Beastmaster or anything, but he did a similar setup... with my buddy's Half-Orc character for a mount instead of an ape! They were Mikey the Halfling and Mickey the Half-Orc, and were specifically built to work together like that. Mike was entirely built around support, with absolutely zero offensive capability of his own, all of his abilities were based around beefing up Mic and giving him stuff like free attacks and movements. Mickey was a fighter/rogue who hit like a friggin' mac-truck just on his own, but with Mikey's help he blasted his way around the battlefield like a god damn freight train!
Pruitt, I nearly fainted holding my breath while waiting for a Rosco reference.
Wendell O'Malley- A soldier thrown out of the local Legion, stumbling upon a magical shapeshifting cap/hood/hat/circlet, etc. that instills a drive to become a thief. Basically a mild twist on the "halfling thief" archetype.
tolkin is the only one who honestly really put in the effort of where the small races live
pretty much also, goblins don't forget goblins
A player in my Tomb of Annihilation Meat Grinder campaign is playing a similar concept as Jim's halfling wizard.
Human Diviner Wizard 2/Divine Soul Sorcerer with Lucky. The chosen emmisary of an ancient, obscure dwarven luck god.
The dice manipulation is super powerful.
Walking around with the ability to negate crits, increase initiative, pass or fail saving throws at crucial moments, he's single handedly kept the entire party alive on multiple occasions when variance was not on their side, and could counteract it.
Really cool to watch play, seems fun to play.
Piratecat's story hour had a great halfling wizard named Agar - he either came from or had spent time in the Far Realm and had levels in a Cthulu-esque presitge class. Like a really friendly tiny mad scientist type, but with tentacles popping out of his and his familiar's bodies at odd moments.
I recently created a halfling sorcerer that's under the divine soul origin. Essentially Yarras is a prophet for Annam, the Giant Deity whose only spells consist of similar giant elements and effects, such as gust, but also has enlarge. I can't wait to play them
I actually rolled a Sorcerer version of the Halfling Jim was talking about, started him about two months ago. aiming for 6 levels of Wild Magic Sorcerer for the Bend Luck Feature, 3 levels Bard for College of Lore, and 2 Levels Wizard for the School of Divination. Our DM let us start with a Feat so I chose Lucky, first ability score increase Bountiful Luck from Xanathar's. I asked my DM if Leprechauns existed in his world, so I based that as the reason for his wild magic "Gram gram had a fling with a Leprechaun. It left it's mark."
Jim's last comment in the after talk reel of lunch ordering made me laugh so hard I spit lunch mid chew. Bravo, Sir! Bravo.
I finally broke because of you guys (alright because of Jim), but I finally watched Willow. Yes a great movie, Yes I also recommend it.
In the campaign I'm playing in, all homebrew, devised by both players and dm, we made halflings and gnomes be perpetually embroiled in a bitter, bloody race war to end all race wars, with the Goliath to mediate the conflict just for shits and giggles. Looking at it over a year later, its a hilariously terrifying experience and probably the most interesting way i have ever heard of Halflings being played.
My first official experience with dnd was a book called practical guide to dragons. It was a children's book during 3.5 that was just like a non-gaming version of the draconomicon. It was written mostly as biological information, but with embellishments from a young kender, and I didn't even know it was DND based. Great book, alongside the entire practical guide series.
One of my players is running a halfling lore bard/awakened mystic in my storm kings thunder campaign. He is an absolute terror against giants. He can’t take a hit but he’s so good at disabling Giants because they have terrible wisdom saves. He’s been the character that the rest of the party rallies behind.
I’m currently playing in a 5e game as a Stout Halfling Moon Druid, along with my friend a halfling Barbarian, and we clean house! I agree with all the advice given here...
Playing a Halfling Monk - way of Shadow, and it's a great combo. Stealth master supreme moving around the battlefield with ease. Dex bonus for monk attacks and armor. Monk counteracts the lower speed.
Plus it's just cool to try to play up looking completely non-threatening.
I have been playing a halfling wizard exactly as described by Jim for the past five weeks. He is basically a short, young Gandalf the Grey, with some quirks of Sherlock Holmes. He had is a Transmutationist, and loves smoking pipes.
My favorite concepts with halflings have always been pairing them with classes that bolster their martial capabilities...
You wouldn't expect a halfling to be particularly strong, after all...then a barbarian halfing cleaves an orc's legs off at the knees...or a paladin halfling propelling a gnoll across the room with a thunderous smite...or a halfling monk zooming around, leaping a high-kick to the bottom of a goliath's jaw.
Funny you mention the halfling Napoleon idea, one of my BBEG is a Halfing in the campaign I’m running right now. It’s called the city of the nine realms and it’s founder has been living of the lives of the inhabitants through a spell called hex of ages where she takes half the years they’re meant to live and gives it to herself.
My favorite character I've ever played was a mountain troll ranger. He's the runt of the litter (literally named Runt) and he fights by being sneaky, smart, and savage. Tunnel Fighter style and Gloomstalker conclave feels really thematic for how a small troll would fight. He's 8'2" and 700 lbs, but he's effectively a wilderness rogue.
I've never had as much fun in combat, and roleplaying an intelligent "small" troll was really engaging.
I'm playing a Halfling Inquisitive Rogue in a small side campaign as a break from DM for me and it's been a wonderful time
New player here, love the idea of making a Halfling that has known another PC for the most of their lives and they've been friends for so long they sort of "went with the flow" and before they knew it BAM! now they're adventuring and trying to steal the loot from a dragon's lair, why? because they don't get scared easily and "their friend would be lonely without them around and we can't have that now can we?"
I've had a character idea kicking around in my head of a halfling transmuter wizard named Mouse. She used to literally be a mouse picking around through a wizard's tower when, being caught by the wizard, was greater polymorphed into a halfling and made to clean up his mess. The wizard, taking a liking to his new servant, decides to keep her as an apprentice. Her inspiration for adventure would be to go out and find her master after he leaves the tower on an errand, but doesn't return.
One of the best Halflings I have played is a Stout Halfling Barbarian using Bear totem for the half damage. He was Boscoe the Monster Hunter and had a big dog called Roscoe. They ended up being called the Boscoe and Roscoe Show. The whole party was actually afraid that if something went wrong the rest of the party would not be unable to bring him down.
I joined back with my mates and am playing a halfling barbarian in a exploration of multiple islands using fancy boats and such and am ready to charge in and just be the little crazy halfling when we start doing combat
The country that halflings come from in my homebrew is a mix of the Italian Renaissance flair/indulgence, Swiss militant neutrality, and "A Brave New World" style of government control through "enforced happiness".
The Princess Mononoke reference was on point.
"I might be small, but this axe is not."
17:03 definitely coming back to steal this someday
You guys should do an episode or a series of episodes based on adventure environments, like coastal, forest, arctic, etc. Did you guys do that? I don’t remember. Anyway I love your work Web Dm!
Hobbits living in cities would be interesting, big cities filled with humans, dwarves, elves and so on. And then we have a quarter where the "tiny folk" life with housing more suited to smaller sizes. Gnomes, of course, will have their influence there too. But yeah I think the best way for them to survive is to be smart.
But then again I think every race should influence the area they life in. Elves probably would create a more artistic and green area in the city. If they can get their hands on an area like such.
Halfling Beastmasters are the fantasy culture counterpart to steppe nomads in my homebrew setting. They're no joke.
I'm playing a halfling divination wizard. Taking the Bountiful Luck, Lucky, and Second Chance Feat has made the character such a unique challenge for my DM; because none of his rolls are set in stone. Super fun and my friends have really reconsidered halflings.
Please do an episode on Hydras! Classic and underutilized D&D monster! Thanks for the amazing content as always!!