Island Hopping - The Tagata Halflings of Minata

[Apupunchau]

One of the things I always found lacking in most kitchen sink game worlds is the missing cultures based on Polynesians of any sort. In the past I’ve expanded on subcultures that already exist on Golarion as a line or a paragraph in one splat book or another. Since there were no existing snippet about any races coming close to a Polynesian culture I had to create one whole cloth. Although what I have created is couched in the lore of Golarion – being situated in Minata and worshiping Hei Feng – change a few location, people, and deity names and these Island Halflings can fit in any fantasy world.

What cultures do you think are woefully missing from kitchen sink style worlds? Of the standard fantasy races do you think halflings fit the bill for a Polynesian like culture? If not what races would you have used? Maori dwarves? Tongan Elves? Fijian Half-Orcs?

[Nathan Nasif]

I like these little guys. It may just be because my daughter walks around singing Moana songs, but regardless, I like it.

[Apupunchau]

Nathan Nasif wrote:

I like these little guys. It may just be because my daughter walks around singing Moana songs, but regardless, I like it.

I had come up with the idea of Polynesian halflings ages ago but never did anything with it I made one character for a short lived Ebberon campaign. I let it set for years and I had gotten the idea again a few years ago while watching videos of the Haka but still did nothing. My girlfriends youngest daughter watched Moana three times in a row this weekend and I got up off my butt and put key to keyboard.

[CrystalSeas]

Have you taken a look at this PF sourcebook?

Heroes of the Waves

They make the menehunes gnomes, but you might find something useful there by substituting halflings

[Apupunchau]

CrystalSeas wrote:

Have you taken a look at this PF sourcebook?

Heroes of the Waves

They make the menehunes gnomes, but you might find something useful there by substituting halflings

Interesting gnomes is a good call too. Not in my budget at the moment but I'll add it to the list of 3rd party stuff I want to pick up.

[Daw]

I always thought the Polynesians in Golarian are the closest thing left of pure-blood Azlanti. Now, the Polynesian Halflings may well be much more pure-blooded descendants of pre-Azlanti era halflings, and may even still speak their original language. Even better, these halfling are directly responsible for the survival and reeducation of the Azlanti human descendants.