Above is the Jim Holloway (RIP) piece featured for the article, and this issue of Dragon Magazine became my most used throughout the rest of AD&D 1e’s lifespan. The above Jeff Dee illustration solidified my idea of the heroic halfling and remains one of my favorite D&D pieces ever.Įventually, January 1988 came around and with it the Halfling Defender subclass in dragon Magazine #129. It wasn’t too much longer after that, when my father brought home the Dungeons and Dragons basic box on a whim. The idea of this meek, diminutive individual rising up to punch above his weight class resonated.
The ‘Samwise the Strong’ sequence at the beginning of Return of the King was the first memory I have of a literary character invoking an emotion in me. Going back to the beginning, like most gamers of my generation, some of my earliest experiences with fantasy were the classic Rankin Bass Lord of the Rings movies, The Hobbit and Return of the King. I can get behind them being a joke team, but I’d still like them to look like a…well…sports team. I guess I was never a fan of all the kitchenware on their models.
Halflings were always my preferred Dungeons and Dragons race when I was a a youth, but I never felt drawn to play them in Blood Bowl.
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