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.

Also: Character gets forced to drop a cursed dagger, rolls a one... Hey I have Halfling luck... XD I swear... XD

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.)

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.

Stop rolling d10s for attack rolls and saves

Oh no. My "average" is 1-3, and a 7+ is considered "good" by my rolling

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?

Now imagine having Silvery Barbs...

So you're that guy

@@CooperAATE Damn Straight!

I'd just make halflings a gnome subrace

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

With the lucky feat!

Do custom heritage still get halfling luck,because that be amazing...

About that…

It used to be a class, basically. lol

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."

Also I love you Davvy

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.

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.

They could both be rule 63'd. Armor is armor