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Think of the possiblities with hair growth tonic. Barbarians can just wear loin cloths when they splash some on their chest and backs. Chest hair, back hair, even hairy calfs and forarms.

Edited to remove inappropriate information. The same rules for in game reguarding "help sex" etc apply here as they do in game.

Mystra wrote:The third edition halfling is much different from the second edition halfling and therefore the halfling from middle earth. They have gone for a taller, leaner halfling in third edition. My personal opinion, is in doing this they have lost alot of the character that makes up a second edition halfling and just made the a small skinny human.

I, for one, can say I am glad that one of the DMs of this Realm still has nostalgia for the unique character of the various races in AD&D.... and tries to keep that character and other distinguishing facets of pre-3E as house rules.

Thank you for going out of the way to do so.

Our tabletop DM has virtually ignored any changes to the halfling in 3e, it does kind of ruin it for a lot of people that halflings arent short and fat with hairy feet and all that stuff...

Saying that I have never felt the need to play a halfling anyway, but I do understand peoples points...

I read a really good article about halflings somewhere. It was written from the perspective of a halfling painter. It addressed the change in halfling appearance. It basically said that in the "old" days halflings saw girth hairyness and foot size as signs of strength and what not. So most halflings were depicted as short, fat and hairy with big furry feet. The speaker went on to explain that ALL halflings were in fact not like this. He says that it has become popular to portray halflings in a more elven way. He even hints at the pointy ears being a geographical trait, that the halflings of Lurien have pointer ears then the halfling of other regions.

From what I know, Halflings are not fight friendly. They were the last to jump into battle and never cared to go into battle. They were quiet and peaceful people and shunned those who thought differently. So if you REALLY want to RP a halfling, then don't go into battle and worry about your feet. But the harry skin on the feet is nice. but weird if you remove all...<charactor> removes his/her harry feet. o0 not right...anyways. My views are done, and da kid is throwing up...again...

If it is flagged such, would it still be possible to repair?