no, no, no, those are "and a halflings" they're the offspring of a human and a Halfling.

Quote from: David Johansen;945176no, no, no, those are "and a halflings" they're the offspring of a human and a Halfling.

Oh.  I thought those were threequarterlings.

Quote from: Narmer;945171They are called "halflings" because they are a human and a half in stature.  Thin, well muscled giants who love simple food, the rough life of the wilderness and are known to be pugnacious and bold.  A common phrase heard when halflings are around is, "Better watch your tongue or that halfling is going to kick your ass!"

Boggies!  "any small, slow, and stupid beast that turned its back on a crowd of boggies was looking for a stomping."

Oddly enough, I occasionally break out the tribe of cannibalistic stone age hobbits just to screw with my players.

The halfing/hobbit terms point back towards "hob-goblin" and "hob-thuar" (hob meaning either "well natured" or "shiny, bright, flashing"). On the side of Law this comes out as Bilbo & Frodo's folk, on the side of Chaos this comes out as militaristic/fascist goblins with Roman or Japanese style foot unit tactics.  Weird.

I'm just going to have a bunch of different "goblin fae" tribes in my Earthdawn/Greyhawk mashup. Faeries (in my Barsaive) are spirits from another nether-world that have gotten caught in our astral space and try to manifest into physical forms (because that's actually safer if you can't hide your magical nature in astral space, and fae do _weird_ things to the astral space in their vicinity unless they manifest into a physical form some-how, and that weird astral warping attracts Horrors :evil:). The Seelie Court has not fallen to the Named Horrors, the Unseelie Court has. Bits of other arthurian and celtic/germanic/mediterranian/etc myth are woven in. One of my primary sources for tribes is this awesome little OSR game: http://legendaryquest.netfirms.com/ (click on Downloads) A seriously impressive set of bestiaries based on well researched myths of various cultures.

I once, just once, tried to do something like this.  The nice guy races were dead, they were all killed by a Necromancer of their own creation, leaving the 'Evil' races as the only playable characters.  So the Orcs and Goblins and Drow had to start figure out what to do now.  It didn't fly.