Major Tom

Posco read over the notice, sighing as he reads over the pinned note. "Never 'eard o' tis Eldon fellah. Don' tink a burrowless 'Alflin' would make a good Elder." He pins a note below Eldon's. "I vote fer Rich."

Everything in Lenfarthing is free (that includes burrows) which is why Halflings don't care for minas, the Elders are the leaders and basically there word is final, we aren't particularly fond of adventuring, and we get up to lots of light hearted shenanigans. Most of us don't lock our stuff ('cuz community and all that) and shovels tend to be the only weapons wielded.

((OH MY GAWD THIS IS SO PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL)) Posco chuckles as he hands the man the minas and takes the portrait. "Looks jus' bally like me! I'll 'ave 'o 'ave an ale wit ye a' sum poin'!" After another quick nod and a smile he skips back to his home, admiring the beautiful portrait all the while.

A council could work, but that might rely on the entire council being on at the same time, and as there really aren't too many active Halflings it might take a while to get stuff done. The good thing about the Elder system is that (when they're active) stuff gets done pretty quick.

I think the less mountains around the village the better, though that could just be me being stupid. Edit: The Elder system works for the most part, they just need to be more active.

That could work, but we probably don't want the (hopefully small) village completely blocked off by mountains from one side. We probably wanna make this Halfling village a lot easier to find.

"Alrigh' 'en! Fif'y minas i' is."

The Halfling grumbles as he counts up the minas in his coat pocket. "Eh, 'ow's 'bou' four'y fer te ting?"

A chubby little Halfling approaches the vendor, keeping his eye on the violin and bow "'Ow much fer te fiddle?"

Posco shivers and frowns as he feels his jimmies being rustled.

Posco looks over the post uninterested till he notices the painting. "OH DEAR PUMPKIN LORD!" As he runs away from the poster trembling with fear and sobbing like a baby, he shouts to himself. "TERE AIN' NAY SUCH TING AS A MUNCHKIN, TERE AIN' NAY SUCH TING AS A MUNCHKIN!" The drawing fuels Posco's vivid nightmares till the end of his days.

Halfling first names tend to be either typical American/British names or really odd sounding Hobbit names usually chosen from one of the many Hobbit name generators. Some good example would be stuff like Oscar, Bertie, or Walter. Or, if you're using the name generator something like: Bodo, Dimple, or something slightly sillier like Hamson. Last names are a lot funner, as you can just combine two things that sound vaguely like something you would find in the countryside and you got yourself a last name. Of course you could always just use the generator. You could also try to tailor the name into what your character is interested in, like if your character smokes a lot his last name could be "Pigpipe" or "Pipetrotter", of course it's all up to you. So some full Halfling names could be: Bertie Pigpipe Goldie Shroomdigger Rosie Wooster Samson Merryturf

A chubby little Halfling, named Posco, waddles up to the artist with a smile and wave he greets the man. "Wha' ho, big un! I was wonderin' ye could draw me, ye know sos I could 'en buy i' from ye." After a quick nod, Posco goes fishing into his pockets for some minas. ((He's a chubby little Halfling with curly brown hair and a little scruffy goatee. Oh and he'll usually be smiling.))

Deputy Posco Bramble scowls and scratches his beard. "Wot kind o' bloody blasted 'anged fool would kidnap children? And an 'Alflin' no less!" Shaking his head, Posco scrounges up the few minas he has. "Wonder wha' type o' bird can carry 'ha' much money ..."

What if we all made event proposals centered around the Halflings? Of course anyone who wanted to could show up, but we could just make a bunch of event proposals that take place in Lenfarthing. Also VALON, YOU ECCENTRIC GENIUS, GO GET THAT MAN-FROG LORE IMPLEMENTED!

That's actually a pretty simple thing to solve. Either say that your parents were weird improper Halflings from a big un city, don't talk about your past, or say that you lived in a little secluded burrow outside of Lenfarthing. If you're a Halfling and you at least try to follow the lore, we'll welcome you with open arms and we probably wont care about what slightly iffy sounding past you came up with. If you want to meet other Halflings in Lenfarthing, just stick around the Inn. You're bound to meet the active Halflings and get some RP going. But if you really want to make a Halfling that knows some people and makes sense within the lore, just PM one of the active Halflings and ask if you can be a cousin, brother, or some other relative. Most of us would probably love to add a member to our little Halfling family tree.

Halflings don't seem like the type to become big business owners, and keeping an invention race specific is a bit silly. What we could do is host some more festivals (like Knoxmas fest), make a few player run events (like the cake cave), branch out a little more (like a Halfling field trip or sum'in'), and just keep doing our light hearted/odd/enjoyable/kind-of-adorable RP. Or we could just launch the nukes and obliterate the rest of Anthos forcing all the plebs of the land to flock to Lenfarthing.