====== Halfling ======

**Playable subraces**: [[lightfoot halfling]], [[strongheart halfling]], [[ghostwise
halfling]]

| Misc bonuses | fearless |
| Size | small |


==== Description ====

Halflings, the small folk (known to themselves as the Hin), are a group of
quiet, family and home-oriented people. They are a cheerful and outgoing
but hard-working folk, who are generally found living in peaceful villages.
If provoked, however, they will fight with great ferocity and skill in
defense of their homes, and the general cause of good. They are more in
tune with the land than humankind, and are much given to farming as well as
a partial knowledge of the wilds. They tend to shun water and extreme
temperatures and settle in temperate countrysides. Their weapons of choice
range through small blades, hand axes, slings, and bows, and they generally
prefer comfortable clothing to fanciful shows of wealth.

Halflings live about twice as long as humans, and are fond of music, tales,
simple crafts and good food. They have ruddy skin, and while their men
usually wear long sideburns, beards are rare among them, and moustaches are
near unheard-of. Halflings tend to be somewhat resistant to poisons and
magic, but have little to no arcane affinity themselves. They are usually
raised to be good aligned, so it is extremely rare to find one who has an
evil nature.

While generally fond of simple pleasures and a cosy life at home,
occasionally are given to wanderlust and will travel from home for several
years. Between an insatiable curiousity, a lack of understanding of the
strange ways of some of the larger races, and their fondness for tricks
played on those larger than themselves, they often find themselves in more
trouble than they bargained for. For example - in a halfling village, many
items of value are communal - it would not bother one halfling for his
neighbour to simply show up and borrow his plough without asking. In a
human city, however, this would certainly not be taken well.

Most halflings will get along reasonably well with gnomes and tolerate
other races except, of course, the evil drow and the cruder or giant races
such as ogres, gnolls, bugbears, orcs, kobolds, etc. Lightfoot halflings,
in particular, are regularly found amongst the settlements of other
non-evil races, primarily humans.

===== Gallery =====
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