How would you imagine a short man coming up to you and Roaring at you.
Can halflings really be all that scary as barbarians?
Lets see what would make them most intimidating.I only ask cause I had thought of about playing one for kicks lol.
Lessee...
- Adaptable Luck Some halflings have greater control over their innate luck. This ability gives them more options for how they can apply their good fortune from day to day, but also narrows its scope. Three times per day, a halfling can gain a +2 luck bonus on an ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check.
- A halfling opportunist can use an enemy’s actions in combat for her own gain, as if the opponent were using aid another to assist the opportunist, giving her a bonus on her next skill check, attack roll, or to AC against the next attack.
I don't know, how much do you value walking? Or reproducing?
I played a halfling fighter in a 3.0 game once. Sometimes enemies can be intimidated by a grinning halfling holding a sword bigger than he is, particularly when the rest of the party is moving aside to let him go first.
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Depends. Does the hobbit in question come from Athas? If so, be afraid. Be very afraid.
How would you imagine a short man coming up to you and Roaring at you.
Can halflings really be all that scary as barbarians?
Lets see what would make them most intimidating.I only ask cause I had thought of about playing one for kicks lol.
Ever played Eberron? A barbarian halfling mounted on a velociraptor is VERY intimidating.
In more general terms, is a human barbarian scary to a hill giant?
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Halfling Barbarian. Mounted Fury archetype. Velociraptor. Take the Boon Companion feat at level 5. Then proceed to laugh at your buddies as you ragelancepounce on your enraged raptor mount.
Combine with a high Charisma modifier and the Reckless Abandon feat to make good use of it... Heck yeah, a halfling barbarian can be intimidating.
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As Pratchett wrote: When the top of their head reaches your waist, their teeth are level with your groin.
Just google Nac Mac Feegle if you ever really need to understand why small blue men with swords as big as they are are something to be feared.
The most PC deaths I have seen in PFS comes from first-steps part 1 and a Halfling Barbarian with a axe.
Really, its just gross.
when thinking of their height--and what that lines them up with--now give them a sharp object. I am intimidated.
With max skill points, training, and preferably a cha of 10+ the halting should do fine. Rage powers will go a long way too.
pretty scary to me
I imagine most people concerned with thier own mortality will worry about anyone halfling or not swinging a sharp object and screaming incoheriently.
I imagine if you were male and a crazed shorty comes charging at you waving a large axe and realizing that the most convenient target he can reach is south of your belt would be pretty scary.
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If you're talking about the intimidate skill, there's lots of things you can do to min/max it. As a halfling barbarian, though, I'd find a 3 foot tall munchkin dealing 20 points of damage in a single hit a lot more intimidating.
Completely max out strength, take power attack, use a falchion, go for every feat that adds damage on a hit. You'll hit often, and crit fairly often.
"I'LL BITE YER KNEECAPS OFF"
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Depends. Does the hobbit in question come from Athas? If so, be afraid. Be very afraid.
No kidding! In Ashes of Athas, I'm part of a halfling group that eats their way across the campaign. I pass out defiler sausage and jerky every time I play that character. Lots of fun!
The Halflings in My Home brew Ride Miniature Rhinos almost as scary as Velociraptors
Note that you get a -4 penalty to your Intimidate check if you are smaller than the creature you are trying to intimidate -- a situation that comes up more often for halflings than for size Medium characters.
Two words, Titan. Mauler.
- +1 to hit creatures larger than it (lose fast movement, but hey, that can be made up with an alternate racial trait)
- Ability to wield a greatsword with a shield with reduced penalties
- Ability to wield weapons one size category larger with reduced penalties
- Ignore Reach weapons
- Ability to get bigger. Better damage, and now he's raging and using a weapon that is at least large in size.
Yep, Halfling barbarians can be effing scary.
Yoda.
Halfling Barbarian, is he intimidating?
Well, think of a cute little dog.
Now, think of that same dog with rabies!
Yep, they are are intimidating.
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To anyone who'd watched Game of Thrones, there's an episode where Tyrion (he's a human dwarf, so he's like, 3 feet tall, max) sneaks up behind a guard with a battleaxe and chops his leg out from underneath him, then proceeds to charge into the fray and do a considerable amount of damage and chaos. In battle, it doesn't matter how short somebody is if they know what they're doing and are swinging a sword at you. If anything, a Halfling barbarian would be even MORE terrifying. Unlike most barbarians, they're pretty hard to hit (thanks to their high Dex and size bonus to AC), they're VERY stealthy, and at the end of the day, a small 1 to 2 damage difference isn't all that much.
I'd be pretty terrified if i was standing guard, and suddenly out of nowhere, a tiny dude with a big sword sneaks past everyone quietly, starts raging, and begins hacking everyone's shins apart. And while we're all screaming with stumps for legs and unable to stand, the rest of us trying in vain to bend over just so that we can actually hit the damn little bugger, I bet no one's going to be thinking "haha, look at that little guy, I'm sure I can beat him up."
And even if the above scenario doesn't occur, everyone would underestimate them. And as soon as they do that...those first few moments when they don't take the fight seriously is all the time a barbarian needs to introduce his blade to their ribcages. Intimately.
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But, I guess, it all boils down to the difference between being intimidated at the first sight of a little person and being frightened after seeing what the little person is capable of doing.
Someone who laughs the first time he sees a halfling barbarian might not live long enough to laugh a second time.
Yes. They can get stuck in the throat and cause choking.
The most intimidating member of our party is a halfling paladin. He has no problem charging all over the battlefield on his riding dog mount and smiting the hell out of any evil foes we face.
AHHHHHHHH!!! GET HIM OFF ME! GET HIM OFF ME!!!
AHHHHHHHH!!! GET HIM OFF ME! GET HIM OFF ME!!!
And for the actual quote (and accompanying action): GET HIM OFF ME!!!