I doubt hobbits worry about being half as important as big people.
Halflings are Full People

I doubt hobbits worry about being half as important as big people.
You roll up a character, he strolls out of the shadows and gives a weak excuse for why he’s taking all the dead guy’s equipment. To save time, just erase the stats and leave the rest of the character sheet alone.
Let how you got to second level be your “backstory”. This game is about telling a story of what happened at the table, not what happened in the novel you’ll never finish.
A tip for game masters: change the appearance or behavior of a standard monster to make the experience more dramatic for your players. The echoes of the encounter will reverberate long after the session is over.
More fearsome than floating eyeballs that short disintegration rays are the wizards who claim to own them… and their attorneys.
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