I just discovered your podcast and I am loving the love you are giving to Mckiernan. I love his Warrows, halflings that can take care of themselves. Also, he used them quite a lot but never seemed to overuse them. All the races seemed to get time in the spotlight in his writings.
I recently started my first campaign. I'm a lightfoot hafling, life domain cleric. Been super fun role-playing and battles are hilarious as my character just hides behind the tank and when I do pop out to cast a spell or attack my timid lil gal deals just as much damage and sometimes more.
Love love love halflings. My group almost always has one in the party and we just started Curse of Strahd and I made a halfling paladin. This video helped big time, as did your pally vid.
Ghost wise Halflings are my favorite D&D race! I was hoping you would mention them as they have been an official races since 3rd editions. They get a wisdom bump and make good clerics and druids. Great video and I loved the history from other settings out side of D&D.
I love halflings! I know this is super late to the party but until very recently I was running a halfling character who, once the build matured (came on-line), would basically be a Halfling John Wick. It was a Maneuver Master monk/Gunslinger (Pathfinder, not D&D) that specialized in grappling and some other combat maneuvers, and then basically either choking the life out of his opponent or would just blow their head off. Fun character, fun build. My DM hated me.
A thing people forget when it comes to Kender is that they have no sense of personal possession/belongings. Now, everyone is inclined to read/play this as Kender stealing everything from others (which is also the way it is written in the Dragonlance novels), but you can easily play a Kender/party without stealing everything..... How? Well, the fact that they have no sense of personal possession/belongings doesn't and shouldn't only mean that they would 'steal' from others. It should and would also mean that they don't see any value in their own belongings and possessions. Hence, a Kender/party could easily be played as a character who would just give away everything to everyone, since they don't feel the need to keep something themselves, or they at least should have no trouble with parting from items. It is still one of my funniest characters I have thought up. Just a Kender adventurer who gives everything, except the most necessary away to others, altruistic and naive to the extreme.
My first game of dnd going to start in about a week, I'm playing a Lightfoot druid! I'm unsure of what background I want him to have so I've been storming through these videos! Thanks a ton for the help, all the info on one channel and you guys are very entertaining as well.
This discussion is a good introduction to Halflings for beginners, covering their origins, racial characteristics and abilities, but it doesn’t go further than the information provided in the 5e PHB, so a followup discussing of Halflings in the Forgotten Realms setting (Faerun) would be useful.
It's better to give a flat bonus if you're going to use the optional Flanking rules, otherwise you're stepping on the toes of Barbarians and one of their main abilities (plus it lets the Barbarians enjoy good positioning too).
My sister plays a barbarian halfling and the rest of the party is terrified of her cuz she keeps cutting everything's head off! It makes for an interesting setting that there's a half Orc in the group that nobody's bothered by but everybody's terrified of this little halfling
I actually have a barbaric variant race of Halflings in my world! I plan on making videos about my variant races for people to use! I really enjoyed this episode a lot guys! Halflings are one of my most favored races. My favorite Class being the BARD!!!! I cannot wait for you to do an episode on them!
I want to know more about this Barbaric Halfling homebrew! Look forward to watching the vid. Thanks for listening and the feedback man! This episode might be my personal favorite so far.
I’m currently making a lightfoot rune knight. And I named him Johnny Hobbes with the feat name: “Little Giant”. He’s a chef and was stricken with wanderlust after saving a Goliath warrior and nursing her to health. He loves to cook and experiment and hearing from this Goliath mercenary talk about her travels excited him. I’m considering if I should just go dual wield with finesse for mechanical benefit/ slice and bash chef style or if I should go full STR with a quarterstaff in reference to Little John from Robin Hood.
I had this idea of a halfling barbarian that road around on a wolf companion because his legs didn't work so good. I always wondered how that could be played.
If a player wanted their barbarian to intimidate someone by punching some rocks and breaking them, then per page 175 the DM should consider having them roll a strength (intimidation) instead of a charisma (intimidation) check. This role is often overlooked. Plus it is mechanically fair since it means the barbarian doesn't get an auto pass intimidation check that everyone else had to roll for.
The probability of getting two critical misses in a row = the probability of getting a critical miss (.05) multiplied by the probability of rolling a critical miss (.05) which equals .05 * .05 = .0025 or .25%
I usually use Kinder thievery as a RP situation. Instead of taking something from a party member I let the player choose what was taken and when they notice. They then come to my Kinder and ask them if they took it and she’s like “oh yeah, I found this, is it yours?” That way I’m doing the Kinder thing but not annoying my fellow players.
Man my wife and I would be good fits for your games then because we love playing the little guys. She's a gnome gal and I'm split between Kobalds and Halflings.
23:56 INTIMIDATION doesn't need to rely on CHA. If a character is _physically_ intimidating you can use STR instead. Similarly, if they're intimidating because of their relatively larger size, or appearance, then these can represented as bonuses to either STR (size) or CHA (appearance) when making the test. I also think you've confused *intimidating behavior* with *being intimidated.* The former doesn't imply the latter, hence the need for a skill check. 24:32 Taking your own example, an Orc smashing apart a rock with their bare hands is indeed _potentially_ intimidating behavior, but not everyone will be intimidated by it. Indeed, other Orcs might not even be impressed!
Wait a minute!! If halflings almost never get ones and it takes rolling a one when you are a wild mage to make something wild happen then that makes you a not-very-wild-mage! Kinda broken, isn't it?
I imagine you still roll the one and get that bonus generally i think that's referring to saves and to hit and you can always say you'll take that 1 with most dms
I love halflings, I started playing them because all I do is smoke weed, pull pranks, I am also the host of the DnD campaign I am in and I prepare meals for everyone.
Dude, I got FOUR CRITICAL MISSES in row it was funny, but it sucked. I had to use my racial trait my feat my other feat MY OTHER FEAT and I missed everyone of them.
I just discovered your podcast and I am loving the love you are giving to Mckiernan. I love his Warrows, halflings that can take care of themselves. Also, he used them quite a lot but never seemed to overuse them. All the races seemed to get time in the spotlight in his writings.
Mckiernan is such a fantastic writer and I wish his work got more recognition!
I recently started my first campaign. I'm a lightfoot hafling, life domain cleric. Been super fun role-playing and battles are hilarious as my character just hides behind the tank and when I do pop out to cast a spell or attack my timid lil gal deals just as much damage and sometimes more.
Hope your game is still going well, sounds fun.
Willow!!!!! Great movie.... Another great episode guys.
Thank you man! Glad you enjoyed it! Looking forward to getting you on the podcast one of these days!
Love love love halflings. My group almost always has one in the party and we just started Curse of Strahd and I made a halfling paladin. This video helped big time, as did your pally vid.
As a Dragonborn Paladin I salute your paladin.
Ghost wise Halflings are my favorite D&D race! I was hoping you would mention them as they have been an official races since 3rd editions. They get a wisdom bump and make good clerics and druids.
Great video and I loved the history from other settings out side of D&D.
Very informative, thanks for all the details
I love halflings! I know this is super late to the party but until very recently I was running a halfling character who, once the build matured (came on-line), would basically be a Halfling John Wick.
It was a Maneuver Master monk/Gunslinger (Pathfinder, not D&D) that specialized in grappling and some other combat maneuvers, and then basically either choking the life out of his opponent or would just blow their head off.
Fun character, fun build. My DM hated me.
A thing people forget when it comes to Kender is that they have no sense of personal possession/belongings. Now, everyone is inclined to read/play this as Kender stealing everything from others (which is also the way it is written in the Dragonlance novels), but you can easily play a Kender/party without stealing everything.....
How? Well, the fact that they have no sense of personal possession/belongings doesn't and shouldn't only mean that they would 'steal' from others. It should and would also mean that they don't see any value in their own belongings and possessions. Hence, a Kender/party could easily be played as a character who would just give away everything to everyone, since they don't feel the need to keep something themselves, or they at least should have no trouble with parting from items. It is still one of my funniest characters I have thought up. Just a Kender adventurer who gives everything, except the most necessary away to others, altruistic and naive to the extreme.
Halflings are my favorite class guys keep up the good work
Glad you brought up willow, love the movie alot & for anyone who has not seen it it is 100% a must see it is really Really epic
I give this episode 4 out of 4 hairy feet. Also rolling a nat 20 after rolling a one is so much fun.
My first game of dnd going to start in about a week, I'm playing a Lightfoot druid! I'm unsure of what background I want him to have so I've been storming through these videos! Thanks a ton for the help, all the info on one channel and you guys are very entertaining as well.
Fun videos. Thanks guys.
love the series
This discussion is a good introduction to Halflings for beginners, covering their origins, racial characteristics and abilities, but it doesn’t go further than the information provided in the 5e PHB, so a followup discussing of Halflings in the Forgotten Realms setting (Faerun) would be useful.
I have a Lightfoot handling character called Reed Tosscobble. He was the first character that I made and I was really happy with it.
It's better to give a flat bonus if you're going to use the optional Flanking rules, otherwise you're stepping on the toes of Barbarians and one of their main abilities (plus it lets the Barbarians enjoy good positioning too).
My sister plays a barbarian halfling and the rest of the party is terrified of her cuz she keeps cutting everything's head off! It makes for an interesting setting that there's a half Orc in the group that nobody's bothered by but everybody's terrified of this little halfling
I actually have a barbaric variant race of Halflings in my world! I plan on making videos about my variant races for people to use!
I really enjoyed this episode a lot guys! Halflings are one of my most favored races. My favorite Class being the BARD!!!! I cannot wait for you to do an episode on them!
I want to know more about this Barbaric Halfling homebrew! Look forward to watching the vid. Thanks for listening and the feedback man! This episode might be my personal favorite so far.
The barbarian halfling tribes sound dope man, that's a hella good idea
Peek moment for one of my players. Halfling with a pet manticore. He got thrown from a tower and his manticore had to catch him.
I’m currently making a lightfoot rune knight. And I named him Johnny Hobbes with the feat name: “Little Giant”. He’s a chef and was stricken with wanderlust after saving a Goliath warrior and nursing her to health. He loves to cook and experiment and hearing from this Goliath mercenary talk about her travels excited him.
I’m considering if I should just go dual wield with finesse for mechanical benefit/ slice and bash chef style or if I should go full STR with a quarterstaff in reference to Little John from Robin Hood.
I run a lightfoot way of the long death monk and i gotta say its a phenomenal character in and out of combat and its so fun to play
I'd say Charlie Day plays an excellent halfling barbarian in 'It's always sunny in Philadelphia'.
Still good but best part is "he's moving through my tiles"
Nice fellas.
I had this idea of a halfling barbarian that road around on a wolf companion because his legs didn't work so good. I always wondered how that could be played.
Halflings rule!!! For the shire!!!
Back in the day of advanced dungeons & dragons 2nd edition I always played a halfling thief
4:43 what's the name of the book series from Dennis L. McKiernan that has halflings?
Most of his series do, but the best ones in my opinion are The Iron Tower Trilogy and The Hel's Crucible Duology.
If a player wanted their barbarian to intimidate someone by punching some rocks and breaking them, then per page 175 the DM should consider having them roll a strength (intimidation) instead of a charisma (intimidation) check. This role is often overlooked. Plus it is mechanically fair since it means the barbarian doesn't get an auto pass intimidation check that everyone else had to roll for.
I can't wait to play a succulent slime!
Imo this is the list of the most useful stats
1.char
2.dex
3.con
4.wis
5.int
6.str
The probability of getting two critical misses in a row = the probability of getting a critical miss (.05) multiplied by the probability of rolling a critical miss (.05) which equals .05 * .05 = .0025 or .25%
Or (1/20)*(1/20) = 1/400
Ric Stubbs indeed a much easier way to say it, than you
I LARP and a buddy of mine plays a Kinder Character. It’s a lot of fun.
I usually use Kinder thievery as a RP situation. Instead of taking something from a party member I let the player choose what was taken and when they notice. They then come to my Kinder and ask them if they took it and she’s like “oh yeah, I found this, is it yours?” That way I’m doing the Kinder thing but not annoying my fellow players.
Man my wife and I would be good fits for your games then because we love playing the little guys. She's a gnome gal and I'm split between Kobalds and Halflings.
23:56 INTIMIDATION doesn't need to rely on CHA. If a character is _physically_ intimidating you can use STR instead. Similarly, if they're intimidating because of their relatively larger size, or appearance, then these can represented as bonuses to either STR (size) or CHA (appearance) when making the test.
I also think you've confused *intimidating behavior* with *being intimidated.* The former doesn't imply the latter, hence the need for a skill check.
24:32 Taking your own example, an Orc smashing apart a rock with their bare hands is indeed _potentially_ intimidating behavior, but not everyone will be intimidated by it. Indeed, other Orcs might not even be impressed!
Wait a minute!! If halflings almost never get ones and it takes rolling a one when you are a wild mage to make something wild happen then that makes you a not-very-wild-mage! Kinda broken, isn't it?
I imagine you still roll the one and get that bonus generally i think that's referring to saves and to hit and you can always say you'll take that 1 with most dms
I've Nat 20ed 2 times in a row before without luck😊
I love halflings, I started playing them because all I do is smoke weed, pull pranks, I am also the host of the DnD campaign I am in and I prepare meals for everyone.
Dude, I got FOUR CRITICAL MISSES in row it was funny, but it sucked. I had to use my racial trait my feat my other feat MY OTHER FEAT and I missed everyone of them.
Haflish language 🤣