Racial Example / Underwear Art

[Wellard]

James Jacobs wrote:

Kirth Gersen wrote:

Why are the gnomes and halflings both so daggone petite? Look at their depictions in 1e, and now fast-forward to 2008. They've all been Kate Moss-ized. With two Small races, you'd think at least one of them wouldn't need to be anorexic.

Because they're delicate flowers?

Ok James can accept that for Gnomes..as a fey race a lighter build is perfectly feasible..but hobbits..err halflings should be chunky peasant types..

Mind you I did have a soft spot for the old Mystra Hin..where the men were the chunky peasants and the women were svelte and model like(and didn't have hairy feet if I remember the artwork correctly)

[Fatjose]

Wellard wrote:

Ok James can accept that for Gnomes..as a fey race a lighter build is perfectly feasible..but hobbits..err halflings should be chunky peasant types..

Hobbit is right. Should chunky peasants have a dex bonus in the first place? The whole chunky and hairy pad feet thing is something that was nixed to be less like Tolkien and LotR halflings weren't exactly dexterous in any way. They weren't too charismatic either...they were mostly cowardly and afraid of outsiders, except Gandalf of course. Halflings were redesigned as looking as nimble as their stats suggest and with the virtuous traits of the hobbits who were in the fellowship who were mentioned many times as being highly unusual for hobbits, Merry and Peregrin especially.

With Gnomes being fey like now, though, it would make sense for them to get the Dex bonus to give them that elusive flavor that gnomes are famed for. In turn, Hobbits can bulk up a little in the waist area and get the con bonus. They can be the like hardy dwarves in that they can eat and drink just about anything with suspicious ingredients without much trouble.