Spring Clean: Halfling Hullabaloo

It was at this time that the Wizard awoke. He wasn’t alone either. It seems the spell that froze the Giants in Stone was only useful as long as the Wizard was in a Coma and as the ancient beings awoke panic spread through the whole Valley as every Halfling rushed to grab whatever they could to defend themselves while Humans and Dwarves stood ready to die for their friends.

The Halflings Aura however didn’t just work on Men and Dwarves but also on Giants, for a Thousand Years the Giants had been at the centre of every festival, party, marriage and birthday in all The Valley and even locked in their stone prisons the Halfling Aura had found it’s way into their hearts and had given them a fondness for the little fellows. It also helped that the bounty had long been over and there was no real point in killing the Halflings, also the food was very good.

With their home secured a group of Halflings, the Three Giants and the Wizard set out to help anyone they could in the chaos of the invasion of Orcs and Goblins. They successfully saved a few small human towns from raiding parties and even managed to save a Dwarf Outpost that hadn’t got the news and were caught off guard. Over time a few men and dwarves have joined the warband who wander around the Kingdoms of Men fighting Orcs and anything else that threatens the peace. While they mostly do this out of the goodness of their own hearts many a Halfling has joined the group to eat the world, to taste dished from the Far East and Distant West while more have joined up just to see if the enemy had any good loot to steal (and occasionally a few allies loot too).

While hardly a major player in the world many a town has a small statue of a Halfling in their town square to celebrate the arrival of this small band of heroes. It’s also true that many a barn door was mysteriously flung open in the dead of the night and a good chunk of the harvest disappeared but most farmers don’t get too furious after all they say, an Orc would have taken far more than just some food.

And so the story continues, the Men are finally managing to halt the tide of Orcs and Goblins flowing into their lands and now just have to deal with the ones rampaging around already. Meanwhile the Halflings, lead by the Wizard and a few colourful Characters continue to wander around the world being very helpful, mildly unhelpful and always adding new types of food and recipe’s to their loot wagons.

My idea is to slowly create a Fantasy World that these guys can “live in” while I can “port” them into other settings like Kings of War or Warhammer Fantasy pretty easily, so I want to keep a roughly generic core of Halflings with my own twist on it that will make sense in other settings.