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== Tabletop RPGs == |
== Tabletop RPGs == |
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* Halflings and Gnomes serve this purpose in ''[[Dungeons |
* Halflings and Gnomes serve this purpose in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. |
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** The Dragonlance setting introduced the Kender, which served as a different take on the Little People at the time (even if it was considered the [[The Scrappy|Scrappy]] race due to annoying players playing up the kender's natural curiosity, fearlessness, and kleptomania). This helped evolve the Halfling in later editions past "hobbits with the serial numbers filed off". |
** The Dragonlance setting introduced the Kender, which served as a different take on the Little People at the time (even if it was considered the [[The Scrappy|Scrappy]] race due to annoying players playing up the kender's natural curiosity, fearlessness, and kleptomania). This helped evolve the Halfling in later editions past "hobbits with the serial numbers filed off". |
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** The Dwarves of the D&D settings were short, but they don't fit the cute or childlike part of the trope. They tend to be characterized as dour, tough, and warlike, and they tend to make good fighter characters. |
** The Dwarves of the D&D settings were short, but they don't fit the cute or childlike part of the trope. They tend to be characterized as dour, tough, and warlike, and they tend to make good fighter characters. |
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* The Ratlings of ''[[Warhammer |
* The Ratlings of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', though they don't have much presence in the game besides being specialist snipers for the Imperial Guard. |
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** Also, before their tragic death by Tyranid, the fabled Squats. |
** Also, before their tragic death by Tyranid, the fabled Squats. |
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[[Category:Not Quite Human]] |
[[Category:Not Quite Human]] |
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[[Category:Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes]] |
[[Category:Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes]] |
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