Halfling (Lightfoot)

As a lightfoot halfling, you can easily hide from notice, even using other people as cover. You're inclined to be affable and get along well with others. The comforts of home are the goals of most halflings' lives: a place to settle in peace and quiet, far from marauding monsters and clashing armies; a blazing fire and a generous meal; fine drink and fine conversation.
Ability Scores: Choose one of: 

• (a) Choose any +2; choose any other +1 
• (b) Choose any +1; choose any other +1; choose any other +1

Size: Small
Speed: 25 ft.
Lucky. When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.
Brave. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.
Halfling Nimbleness. You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.
Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.

Basic Information

Dietary Needs and Habits

Despite their small stature halflings are known to consume quite a lot of food. A healthy halfling will consume an average of 7 square meals a day.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Lightfoot Halflings can be found living in human cities. They form close communities with other halflings and treat each other like an extended family.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Lightfoot halflings tend to live among humans in their towns and cities.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

A halfling has a given name, a family name, and possibly a nickname. Family names are often nicknames that stuck so tenaciously they have been passed down through the generations.
Male Names: Alton, Ander, Cade, Corrin, Eldon, Errich, Finnan, Garret, Lindal, Lyle, Merric, Milo, Osborn, Perrin, Reed, Roscoe, Wellby
Female Names: Andry, Bree, Callie, Cora, Euphemia, Jillian, Kithri, Lavinia, Lidda, Merla, Nedda, Paela, Portia, Seraphina, Shaena, Trym, Vani, Verna
Family Names: Brushgather, Goodbarrel, Greenbottle, High-hill, Hilltopple, Leagallow, Tealeaf, Thorngage, Tosscobble, Underbough

Major Language Groups and Dialects

You can speak, read, and write Common and Halfling. The Halfling language isn't secret, but halflings are loath to share it with others. They write very little, so they don't have a rich body of literature. Their oral tradition, however, is very strong. Almost all halflings speak Common to converse with the people in whose lands they dwell or through which they are traveling.

Common Etiquette Rules

If a halfling is approached while engaged in a meal, it is only polite that the halfling offer a seat at his or her table or fireside to the stranger so that they may share it. Even if the stranger seems hostile at first, many halflings believe that a good meal can solve any problem.

Common Dress Code

Lightfoots tend to dress in the local fashion. Men wear comfortable tunics and jerkins while women adorn themselves with practical skirts and blouses.

Common Taboos

It is considered extremely rude to turn down the hospitality of a gracious host.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Halflings try to get along with everyone else and are loath to make sweeping generalizations-especially negative ones.

Lifespan

A halfling reaches adulthood at the age of 20 and generally lives into the middle of his or her second century.

Average Height

Halflings average about 3 feet tall

Average Weight

They weigh about 40 pounds.

Average Physique

Lightfoots are smaller their stout cousins and can often be mistaken for human children.

Related Ethnicities

• Northern Aetrus