This is not a brand new factor. I’d say that even in AD&D1, the -1 Strength +1 Dexterity for halflings wasn’t meant to imply that 40% of the time an NPC halfling is stronger than an NPC human.

I believe you are completely proper there.

Look, if a Halfling is principally half of a person, their STR ought to prime out round 9–half of 18. Or if we’re attempting to account for distinctive STR, perhaps I might argue a halfling as probably having as excessive as a 12 STR. Average STR for a halfling ought to perhaps be 6, tops.

It goes to point out simply how far-off from any makes an attempt to mannequin biology the sport is written. I believe the thought is certainly to permit PCs to differ. The recreation wished to retain the least quantity of differentiation attainable to say one thing in regards to the world. That, yeah, halflings are clearly weaker than people to an extent nice sufficient to interrupt by means of the noise of the variation of people.

It’s price holding onto lest the sport grow to be summary mush. It was really prompt within the linked article for the sport numbers to be solely divorced from the lore. I can not consider a greater signal to point we’re coping with individuals who simply do not “get” roleplaying video games in any respect.

What a bunch of pretentious drivel.

According to the MM halflings are 3+ft tall. With tallfellows being 4+ft tall, Stouts being the shortest if the blended bloods are 3’6″ (which doesn’t jibe with the peak vary at the back of the DMG, however such is.)
Halfling STR caps at 17 and 14 for men and women. 17 With their common someplace round 7-9.

Oh noes! D&D did precisely what you snidely proclaim it didn’t. Golly gee. What a shock there.