I know the answer to this question will be based largely on personal preference but do you prefer halflings with hairy feet in your worlds or do you find hairy feet kind of grody?
Also do halflings wear shoes or do they usually forgo the use of shoes like the hobbits do?
The original D&D halfling was called a hobbit, and Gygax had to change the name to halfling to stop the Tolkien Estate from suing him.
If a halfling doesn't have large, hairy feet with natural calluses at the bottom so they don't have to wear shoes, then, what you really have on your hands is a gnome. https://vlc****/
The original D&D halfling was called a hobbit, and Gygax had to change the name to halfling to stop the Tolkien Estate from suing him.
If a halfling doesn't have large, hairy feet with natural calluses at the bottom so they don't have to wear shoes, then, what you really have on your hands is a gnome.
Interestingly, a gnome is kind of a reverse halfling: Halflings wear no shoes, while gnomes are particularly shoe-centric, polished leather, shiny buckles, top quality footwear. No one would buy shoes from a halfling, who have no first hand experience of wearing them, while on the other hand gnomes are famous cobblers and cordwainers.
I mean, not exactly canon here, but that makes sense to me as a bit of racial lore.
I feel like halflings should have some kind of bonus against floor-based traps - pits and snares and so on - because of their bare feet =)
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I figure halflings raised in halfling communities would wear shoes about as often as a human would wear gloves, not day-to-day but might own a pair for temperature or safety. They probably favor sandals or footwraps over full shoes where possible as well. Halflings from predominantly human areas might wear them more often. Hairy feet are where I draw the "If you don't like it, play a gnome" line, though; those are mandatory.
Halflings are just like hobbits in my book, which means they usually do not wear shoes and both males and females have hairy feet! My current halfling character has reluctantly worn boots to better facilitate her adventuring, but at home she is quick to cast them off.
Probably depends on whos writing them. They probably added more shoes to their lore when they stopped calling them Hobbits due to the Tolkien estate not being happy with the previous game owners.
And do they have hairy feet?
I know the answer to this question will be based largely on personal preference but do you prefer halflings with hairy feet in your worlds or do you find hairy feet kind of grody?
Also do halflings wear shoes or do they usually forgo the use of shoes like the hobbits do?
The original D&D halfling was called a hobbit, and Gygax had to change the name to halfling to stop the Tolkien Estate from suing him.
If a halfling doesn't have large, hairy feet with natural calluses at the bottom so they don't have to wear shoes, then, what you really have on your hands is a gnome. https://vlc****/
Interestingly, a gnome is kind of a reverse halfling: Halflings wear no shoes, while gnomes are particularly shoe-centric, polished leather, shiny buckles, top quality footwear. No one would buy shoes from a halfling, who have no first hand experience of wearing them, while on the other hand gnomes are famous cobblers and cordwainers.
I mean, not exactly canon here, but that makes sense to me as a bit of racial lore.
I feel like halflings should have some kind of bonus against floor-based traps - pits and snares and so on - because of their bare feet =)
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
I figure halflings raised in halfling communities would wear shoes about as often as a human would wear gloves, not day-to-day but might own a pair for temperature or safety. They probably favor sandals or footwraps over full shoes where possible as well. Halflings from predominantly human areas might wear them more often. Hairy feet are where I draw the "If you don't like it, play a gnome" line, though; those are mandatory.
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Halflings are just like hobbits in my book, which means they usually do not wear shoes and both males and females have hairy feet! My current halfling character has reluctantly worn boots to better facilitate her adventuring, but at home she is quick to cast them off.
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I would say that the shoes serve more as protection in terrain that they aren't use to. Also, hairy feet is just a trait at this point for me
Hairy feet, sandals perhaps in some terrains and magic boots/shoes if they luck into them.
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Probably depends on whos writing them. They probably added more shoes to their lore when they stopped calling them Hobbits due to the Tolkien estate not being happy with the previous game owners.
Halflings in my campaigns are usually Hobbits, Tolkien estate be damned.
Sometimes, I let them be Warrows instead, because I like Mithgar.