Hobb- I mean, Halfling Feet

[Diodric]

Yeah, odd question.

I was reading part 2 of RotRL last night for a new campaign I was going to run, and it mentions broken glass on the floor in a certain part and to treat them as caltrops. I know there are going to be at least 2 halflings in the party and I know neither of them wear boots or shoes. How would that affect those characters?

So I was curious, how would that affect them since they still have the Tolkienesque leathery feet, but apparently no written rules for them. Has anyone done something like this? Even like a minor racial trait?

[RtrnofdMax]

The players wouldn't argue that a razor couldn't cut their feet, so they shouldn't say a piece of glass can't. If they have natural armor, I would apply that to your +0 roll against AC 10. If you are feeling particularly generous, you can give them a circumstance bonus to natural armor of +2 to mimic shoes.

[Blake Duffey]

As there are no specific rules re: halfings and caltrops (or barefoot characters and caltrops), I'd treat them as any other character in this situation.

[Lord Twig]

I have always had a problem with Halflings not wearing shoes. What do they do when they come across a pair of nice, shiny Boots of Striding and Springing, or Boots of Speed?

It is easier to just forget about the Tolkien roots of Halflings and just say they wear shoes or boots like everyone else.

[KaeYoss]

Lord Twig wrote:

I have always had a problem with Halflings not wearing shoes. What do they do when they come across a pair of nice, shiny Boots of Striding and Springing, or Boots of Speed?

They'll probably wear them. But they wouldn't wear just any boots.

And since we're in all likelihood talking about adventurers here, I guess they won't have a problem with not being typical specimens of their race (or they were different to begin with and became adventurers because of that).

[Count Buggula]

I made a halfling character whose feet were bound as a slave in her youth to make her be able to pass as a gnome when needed, and she shaves her feet and wears shoes to this day out of habit.

She's kinda messed up in the head, though.

[Roagh]

Mmmmm, tasty halfling feets. They're the absolute best.

lipsmack

[Diodric]

I found in the Caltrop description that a character wearing shoes or boots gain a +2 armor bonus vs the Caltrops. I suppose you could rule the same for the halflings, since they're supposed to do the same thing.

However to Lord Twig who mentioned:

Lord Twig wrote:

I have always had a problem with Halflings not wearing shoes. What do they do when they come across a pair of nice, shiny Boots of Striding and Springing, or Boots of Speed? .../snip

What simply needs done is instead of Boots of Striding and Springing, I'm sure some clever Halfling crafter has created Spats of Striding and Springing! lol