Halfling (Stout)
As a stout halfling, you're hardier than average and have some resistance to poison. Stout halflings form nomadic bands that travel constantly, lured by the open road and the wide horizon to discover the wonders of new lands and peoples. But even these wanderers love peace, food, and a roaring campfire to call home.
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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
Stout Halflings travel as a way of life, driving wagons from place to place and maintaining no permanent home.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Stout Halflings form communities of traveling caravans that migrate from place to place. The members of these caravans treat each other as family even if they take on members of another race.
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
Stouts dress for travel, often in heavy weather beaten cloaks, comfortable tunics and trousers, and sturdy leather boots.
Culture and Cultural Heritage
Stouts have a wanderlust that is known to no other race. To them traveling is a way of life.
Common Taboos
It is considered extremely rude to turn down the hospitality of a gracious host.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Halfling 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
Stout Halflings as their name implies are more stout and rotund then their lightfoot cousins. They more resemble humans who's growth has been stunted.
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