Davvy's Classical Guide to Halflings
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
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Here's a tip for the DM to keep a little creativity when a halfling rolls a 1: Narrate the new roll as part of a lucky break. You get to come up with a way in which a "misfortune" turns into a fortunate success, like accidentally deflecting a blow or landing a hit because you fumbled your weapon in just the right way, or avoided a trap because you bent down to tighten your boot-laces etc.
You're trying to escape some guards and when you trip and fall you roll through some sewer pipes and land in the designated evac point
Favorite scene with halfling luck was when the halfling Paladin rolled to hit, rolled a one, rerolled and got a crit.
Mf dropped her sword, bent down to get it back; avoiding the enemy's attack in the process, and then as she was getting up again she accidentally headbutted the dude, leaving his guard completely open.
Then she just shrugged, casually stabbed the dude and smited.
That's a great idea :)
This is exactly how my DM handles this. She actually prefers being forced to improvise on the fly like that, I think.
I've been running it this way for years, and I can say with certainty it's entertaining as all hell. Highly recommend.
Character I’m excited to play is a halfling named Johnny Hobbes. (Friends call him little John). A rune knight medicine man who learned rune making from his Goliath gf back when he nursed her to health.
Oh my god that’s adorable
That’s awesome. Btw I’m stealing that name for my halfling bard
Tall queen short king rights! (I very much approve.)
Sam Riegel rolls natural one as a halfling.
“Well guess I fucked up!” Throws the re-roll out the window because he thinks it’s stupid.
Gotta respect that man’s hustle
Also: Character gets forced to drop a cursed dagger, rolls a one... Hey I have Halfling luck... XD
I swear... XD
Should be noted that being a small creature also comes with the drawback that you have disadvantage on attacks with heavy weapons like a Greatsword, Longbow and Heavy Crossbow. So going with any martial subclass aside from Monk will leave you slightly below the bell-curve or make getting use of the Magic items the DM hands you a bit more challenging, even if you're using Tasha's rules to put your +2 into Strength.
It's still not the worst idea to play something like a Halfling Barbarian, because having tanks is always nice. But it's something that's good to keep in mind.
Totally forgot about this. Technically, you’ll do a little less, damage-wise, but you can compensate with the dual-wielding feat, since it doesn’t like heavy weapons either, or you could just pick up a shield and live with a higher AC instead.
@@DavvyChappy While that is fair, it also doesn't allow you to use everyone's favorite damage feats like the Greeks of old. You know the ones I mean. XD
@@DavvyChappy Have you been talking to JoCrap? It almost sounded like you were saying the sword and shield is best for a halfling.
On my way to build a Path of the Beast halfling barbarian. I don't need a Greatsword if I have dual claws.
@@templarw20 sword and shield are the best for every race hands down the only reason you don’t see that is because wizards of the coast is holding it back just like the cowards at Capcom.
As someone with has dice that never roll above a 10, Halfling Luck is a godsend
Stop rolling d10s for attack rolls and saves
Oh no. My "average" is 1-3, and a 7+ is considered "good" by my rolling
Emma: rolls a 1.
Davvy: bye bye spear
Davvy actually knows a lot about halflings because he is one.
The one way telepathy is good for Moon Druids, so you can remain in animal form while still being able to talk to your party, as beasts without mimicry cannot talk.
I've never had a DM that allows Dragon Mark subraces outside of Ebberon, but a mark of hospitality halfling does sound fun
As a Warlock I actually got a lot of healing mileage out of Mark of Hospitality. Aid is an amazing healing spell because it restores hit points as well as raising the max, and recovering spell slots on a short rest means that you can buff the whole party and not be down a single slot afterwards. And Goodberry is 10 hp per cast, with a duration of 24 hours. Just like Aid, you can cast it and rest for the slots back, meaning free out-of-combat healing. Pretty dang solid.
Im playing a Mark of Hospitality Halfling Cleric of the Bakery Domain. Im basically a super supportive mom with healing cookies, blessed pastries and lucky brownies. :)
That's super cute.
Damn, that's good. I've been thinkung of a Hearth Domain subclass with a similar vibe.
May I ask about what features the Bakery Domain has?
Halflings are also wonderful for playing the screw with the dice type. A chunk of their racial feats let you do things like pass around the Natural 1 resistance or similar...and if you add Divination Wizard...well, it can frustrate a lot of DMs there
Now imagine having Silvery Barbs...
In my setting, halflings (along with gnomes and goblins) don't quite obey the laws of physics like the should. In essence, they operate on toon logic. A safe falls on a halfling and they use their luck to escape it? The door of the safe opens up and the halfling walks out unscathed. A halfling nearly goes off a cliff? They do, but they scramble back to the edge just in time.
I had a player who, in real life, went rock climbing on the weekends. He played a halfling who, every time he had to climb anything that required an athletics check, rolled below a 5, with one him rolling a nat 1, then another one when he went for the reroll. He embodied the character when he crossed his arms, looked grumpy, and sat down saying "I didn't want to climb the stupid mountain anyway."
Po-ta-toes boil em mash em stick em in a stew
Pretty sure the Ghostwise Halfling was made for all the Circle of the Moon Druids so they can talk while wild shaped.
We actually had a homebrew ability to get advantage on groin shots. Worked the same basic way that backstabbing used to work.
Light foot halfling is very nice on rogues with the sentinel feat as you can hide in the same space as the barbarian, so when enemies go to attack the barbarian you can sneak attack them as a reaction potentially getting off two sneak attacks in a round.
I like to think of Halflings as the type too busy having fun to have any worries. The type that approaches an argument with, “Why are we bickering when we could be having a drink at the bar, sing our little hearts out until we get thrown out, then wonder into the woods, end up in the Feywild partying with Satyr until we blackout and wake up in the Material Plane 20 years later?”
I did actual recently make a “mark of hospitality halfling barbarian with the cook feat”. He makes his own weapons using bread and cheese, like his warhammer made of a baguette handle and a cheese wheel head, and is called Camembert “Bertie” Baker.
Mark of Hospitality is for people who like their hole in the ground, but don't mind helping make one for other people.
I feel the need to point out that he said “purify food and drink is useless in exploration”. Like, maybe you don’t consider survival heavy gameplay a part of the exploration pillar. But it is so.
I think the Dragon Mark of Healing Halfling Divination Wizard may be the most diabolical character to ever torment Dms.
As a Finn I Loved the Schauman Assassin -painting near the end.
And hobbit points were welcome too.
I play my halfling as a lawful evil paladin with a bad temper who counteracts his own luck by lacking empathy and usually snarking himself into trouble. My DM loves me. 😂
No fear, just breakfast, first and second.
My favorite build to play so far!
First, make a Stout Halfling.
Second, become a Divination Wizard.
At 4th level, grab the Lucky Feat.
I need to play this again soon!
So you're that guy
@@CooperAATE
Damn Straight!
One of my players did halfling druid with the hospitality build. That little old lady drugged the guards with brownies and facilitated a jail break. I love her dearly
You know, it has always irritated me when a nat 1 caused me to throw/drop a weapon. At least for 5e, nat 1 isn't supposed to be 'super bad' like a trained and experienced fighter having fumble fingers like a rank amateur on his first day of training, it's just supposed to be an automatic miss. Flavoring it to be extra punishing just feels wrong to me and honestly tends to break my immersion when playing a martial character. What's worse is that this seems to be the de facto go to of a lot of DMs I've met or read about (or watched) so it ends up being a lazy trope in my eyes. Of course this is only my opinion.
Edit: Forgot to mention, Ghostwise's telepathy isn't exclusively a social feature. It can be highly effective in a tactical or exploration scenario as well, especially when you don't want to shout out your plans so the enemy can immediately counter them or make any noises that would alert enemies to your being there.
It also serves to punish martial classes in a system that already favours magic users
I'd do that for the lower levels. Past level 5 or so, though, I play that a natural 1 grants an enemy advantage on the next attack. That way it's not about the player character being inexperienced, it's about the enemy capitalizing on a misstep that even experienced fighters can get.
@@chrisp.2852 just depends on the creativity of the DM. Maybe a fire spell misses and lights a stack of something on fire. Or the illusion spell backfires and lights the player character up like a Christmas tree.
@@sjrii8665 I can understand that and would probably accept that as a thing when playing since it's logical enough, though it still feels to me like adding extra punishment since the initial punishment (the unavoidable miss) has already happened.
When someone rolls a nat 1 in combat, they know with 100% certainty that it won't connect, so they can't even use class features (bardic inspiration, battlemaster maneuvers, etc) to attempt to turn a potential miss into a hit like with any other roll, and that can be bad enough under many circumstances. Adding extra mechanical effects rather than just flavorful ones can turn a bad situation into a critically dire one.
As far as throwing fire (fire bolt, scorching ray for example) or any other spell attack-based spells or even missile weapons in general, they're technically fair game for affecting things behind your target on a miss even without nat 1s, though usually they don't. The nature of a ranged attack is that once it leaves you, you effectively lose agency over it, in that you can no longer affect it's outcome to an extent. I mean, those same class abilities that I mentioned still could affect it, but in a sense those are more of a retroactive adjustment to the actual aim/shot and not an effect on the missile (or spell) in flight, at least as far as I see it.
Dunno about the illusion though, I can't recall any illusion needing a d20 roll beyond a save.
The thing is D&D, unlike many other systems, doesn't have an actual "botch" or critical failure mechanic in it by RAW. As I've mentioned, nat 1 is listed as simply a 'guaranteed miss' for combat rolls and nothing more egregious, at least in 5e. Of course if your table is happy with treating it as a full on botch/critical fail and attaching a mechanical effect to that, that's fine too obviously since that is what makes your group have fun, as long as everyone agrees to it beforehand. (I'm guessing that this is a topic that would be good to mention briefly in a session 0 for new groups) :)
@@sjrii8665 there's allot less spells that require the caster to roll
5:05 Speaking of ranger, in DnD Basic (with the demi-human classes) the halfling was quite similar to the ranger, what with their phenomenal sneaking ability while outside and bonus to ranged attacks.
I like the halflings from the original 1974 d&d. They were capped at level 4 and their big racial benefit was that they could throw rocks as far as a bow. It was like "fine you wanna play a Hobbit? Hobbits suck at adventuring. Have fun." Lol
The return of especially the wizard!
My diplomat build is a hospitality halfling eloquence bard. With the Bountiful Luck feat, my party will pass ALL of Strixhaven's exams!
Master Frodo!
Yaaaasss Davvy, thank you for more cheeky but quality content. But also why must you make me cry in Necrohunt! You better make it through Banana / Lemon Man!
My second character was a halfling rogue from the Starter Kit. I named him Timmy Topple. He was so fun to play but I didn't go completely with the path the starter kit set for him. I used the PHB to go the arcane trickster subclass.
When I was just starting out playing D&D, I forgot halflings had the 'reroll nat 1s' ability for the longest time, maybe in part because I was a divination wizard. The one time I remembered it, I got double nat 1s and nearly threw my dice in the trash. I think I must have gotten insta-karma for doubling down with that race and subclass on dice control, though I had no idea what I was doing at the time.
My favorite race
I likes me a halfling rogue that focused on ranged attacks.
I'm currently playing a mark of hospitslity halfling school of creation bard that was a barkeeper and theater guy that wants to have adventure so he can have good stories to make his plays and to write children's adventure books. It's pure roleplay focused, so much fun, my fist hobbit character and I'm loving it.
Fun fact, Halflings are actually Gnomes without funny hats
I'd just make halflings a gnome subrace
*I love halflings .*
*My recent Ghostwise halfling was a Twilight domain cleric that had a AC of 23 and numerous ways of boosting ac & had all solid Saves ( all stats ) , i rolled well & chose several feats to help cover weak spots.*
@4:25 Tulip stepping barbarian quote makes me think of Centaurworld.
Divination halfling,esp.going full theif mentality and mastr-blastr motiff...
With the lucky feat!
Do custom heritage still get halfling luck,because that be amazing...
I love my halfling rogue
Davvy please make a guide to simic hybrids I’m playing my first game soon and I’m making a simic hybrid coffelock and I’m so lost on the backstory
I'm currently playing a Mark of Hospitality halfling and it's a ton of fun. I play an elderly knowledge cleric who is also a great granny and I always have snacks in my pocket and who wouldn't want a delicious snack from a sweet little old lady?
theres a caveat to the lightfoot halfling that almost nobody ever pays attention to, and that is that hiding is still an action or a bonus action if you are a rogue. being behnd a nother creature doesn't make you automatically hidden or behind cover. i had a player look at me like i murdered his mother when i didnt just give them free hide and cover for free.
My favorite character that I've made is a circle of spore druid mark of healing halfling. I don't play halfling for the racial bonuses (though those are nice), but I've always loved and related to hobbits. While halflings aren't hobbits that's gonna be the closest I get to my hobbit life lol
Merry Christmmas.
Note on mark of hospitality: artificers, released in the very same book, mesh particularly well with the mark of hospitality halfling both thematically and mechanically, since they:
1) can cast spells via cook's utensils & brewers supplies
2) get tool expertise and extra tool profs which meshes well with ever hospitable and those extra d4's so you can be a true master chef
3) the added spells are mostly ones that aren't already on the artificer spell list but that fits neatly into the type of things that the artificer spell list is good at, just more of it
4) flash of genius as kindly advice?
Ah, Nat 1 fumbles! Because DMs hate fighters and don’t want them to be cool.
A good laugh.
I'm pretty the halfling in my party who took the lucky feat rolled three natural ones in a row once. It was pretty wild.
It's been quite a while since we've heard "Especially the Wizard!"
Take lucky feat with a halfling to break your DM at a spiritual level.
We don't all do it (house rule nat. 1's as super fails).
Lower rolls don't mean more failure, and higher rolls don't mean more success. The DC is the measure between success and failure, and that's all that it guarantees. I don't enjoy punishing my players because the number on their d20 is a 1 instead of a 6.
So... play a Lucky halfling chronurgist with silvery barbs is what I'm hearing
Thanks.
Halfling Diviner with Lucky... Mr. "NEVER GONNA ROLL A 1!"
I jokingly made a stout halfling Barb. He was funny and pretty functional.
1:58 "It is the safest class there is"
Class?
It used to be a class, basically. lol
So would halfling luck effectively take the fun out of being a Wild Magic Sorcerer?
I have rerolled a nat 1 turning it into a nat 1 on multiple occasions.
Feels good to be number one somewhere lol
About that…
Do a vídeo about the mascots of the feat from strixhaven
I just finished the hobbit for the first time and I’m pretty sure I’m gonna be playing dnd one day (just gotta find a dm) and I just ..I gotta play a halfling
I play a ghostwise druid, I beat the odds and got twice a 1 even better because we play Ravenloft so while I can reroll 1 a like curse effect still triggers.
Thank you for the video.
I like the concept of having the Barbarian be the "face" of the party. Completely subvert both the "dumb muscle" and "player that just wants to do combat" archetypes in one blow. Like, IN combat they still roids out for the rip-and-tear, but otherwise they're friendly, diplomatic, persuasive; the one that can get the disparate personalities of the party to work together and convince the local NPC to hand over the latest quest.
My spouse plays that type of barbarian a lot. He was an absolute blast to play with as his bugbear barbarian in Curse of Strahd. It was a bit difficult for him to be diplomatic after he got cursed to look undead, but my bubbly warlock-disguised-as-wizard was helpful to get strangers to trust him. It was running on the logic of "Hey, this frail little human trusts him and shows no fear, maybe he only looks scary."
Is the tulip stepping barbarian a centaurworld reference?
Wait which wizard class dose healing?
I force my halfling characters to pray to tymora to keep there power and make there first fumble still happen but it works out for them somehow.
Can you make a classical guide to handling my feelings
Also I love you Davvy
I like the telepathic halflings. Those are the wild halflings, right?
0:40 per the rules you also can't use heavy weapons as effectivly
*EsPEcIALLy tHE WizARd!!!*
What a cliff hanger!
"Davey......." [video ends]
I need to know what got cut! Was it "Davey will give away a free book to the 76th comment" ?
Or is it just more Google censorship backed by big RPG conspiracy?
I like the halfling
I’m playing a female halfling bard
Having fun with it
Ah, yes. I love having races as my class.
I have a hafling fighter named honey badger and a pet dog that he ride
I love halfling diviners just sayin
Or your Caldwell Tanner and you too exclusively 2’s
Or just be like 95% of DMs and ban the Lucky feat.
I actually find nat 1s to be divisive in the dnd community. Either you run them and you hate your players, or you don't and everyone thinks you also hand out +3 weapons for free in the name of some power fantasy.
Me, I dont like the idea of 'guck you for daring to roll this one arbitrary number on this thing you have to roll'. Nat 1s mean guaranteed miss and no damage, nat 20s mean more damage and guaranteed hit. Nothing extra is needed.
The trick to it is that (in general) if you're running the game properly, a nat 1 should fail on skill checks and saves since most skill checks/saves are a binary success/fail and if only one outcome is possible then the DM shouldn't really be calling for a roll in the first place. (Obviously DMs shouldn't be expected to remember everyone's character sheets so technically pointless rolls will be made on occasion but the dice are there to resolve uncertainty).
Critical fumbles on the other hand can fuck right off.
@@mollymauktealeaf thank you. Letting people roll when you're not going to let them succeed no matter what always annoys me.
I get why some people like critical fail fumbles but I've never been a fan. If a player rolls a natural 1 then they've already failed at what they're trying to accomplish, to punish them even further for no real reason just feels pointlessly mean.
Halflings are overrated. Gnomes are underrates.
To be honest I don’t understand why we need both, I say take the best of both races and make a short stack master race.
@@jacobmeeler1256 LMAO
@@jacobmeeler1256 gnomes are to halflings what elves are to humans. A gnome is more whimsical and disconnected from reality than a halfling whereas halflings are farmers and foodies for the most part, too small for kingdoms to bother making war with them.
POE TAE TOES
5:18 Are... Are those the elrics?!!?(One of which is Rule 63'd)
They could both be rule 63'd. Armor is armor
Hi
0:30 i mean dwarves also have less movement and get played quite often
Personally I don’t play store brand hobbits cause their art is butt ugly
"we all do it" i wish we fucking didn't
Nat 1's serve to punish you for playing martials, especially monks with there reliance on many attacks instead of high damage attacks, in a system that already favours magic users. It's littarly the shitties mechanic I've ever seen, 80% of the time it just serves to make my character feel like bumbling fucking idiots and completely kills the vibe of whatever we're doing and the remaining 20% it is a minor chuckle at best.
Also how dafuc is losing your weapon inconsequential? That like littarly removes you from a fight and falling onto your face removes any attacks that came after even if dnd allows you to just get up using movement and luckily no actions.
Nat 1's have never served me for anything but ruine enjoyment in campaigns so that the DM can have a sadistic bit of fun at the expense of others.
Put captions on your videos, dude. Stop discriminating against the deaf.
Sorry, but I couldn’t stand idly by and not correct the percentage Nat 1 calculation. Davvy said “0.002%”, but that’s not the percentage. It’s 1/400 chance which is a 0.0025 chance (not percentage), which is 0.25% (chance x100). And this should be rounded up, not down using most rules of maths, which would then be 0.3% (and not 0.2%).
Sorry. I do hate to be the “um actually” guy, but my physics centric brain just had to stop right there and explain some quick correction maths.