Halfling

Basic Information

Biological Traits

Halflings are outlined on page 26 of the 5th Edition Players Handbook

Growth Rate & Stages

Halflings reach adulthood at 20 years of age and can live a little longer than 150 years.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Halflings are given a first name at birth and inherit their family name from their mothers. No halfling reaches adulthood without earning themselves a nickname that may end up supplanting their official first name.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

Halflings speak Halfling and Common.

Culture and Cultural Heritage

Both Lightfoot and Stout halflings have the slingshot and sling staff (or hoopack) as their racial weapons.

History

All around Magna Testudo lightfoot halflings flock mainly to the cities and metropolises where they can easily find work as exterminators, chimney sweeps, and messengers. They might also find employment in other, less legal, lines of work as they are ideal pickpockets, spies, and burglars. Stout halflings are often at least partially nomadic and entire villages might live in great migratory caravans as traders, peddlers, gypsies, or circuses. The Tephor tribes in the south are rumored to have at least one family of halfling warriors who ride swift dogs into battle on raids against the Niani caravans and you can fit a whole village worth of stoutfolk into a single ship and still carry enough supplies and cargo to live well and make a profit as traders or ferrymen. Halflings also have their own communities around the world that are mainly collections of settled families living in separate villages of close proximity.

Lifespan

120 to 150 years

Average Height

3'0" for males and 2'10" for females

Average Weight

45 pounds for males and females

Related Ethnicities

• Lightfoot Halfling
• Stout Halfling