Superbly-crafted cosy rpg which evokes the spirit of life in The Shire perfectly. Written with clarity, care and wit. A simple rules chassis and game loop that your group could bolt extras onto with ease. Excellent advice for referees and players alike. A delight. Treat yourself to a copy!

Highly recommend! The game is easy to learn and understand. Some parts such as the Challenge Phase might seem difficult to 'get' at first read, but once you try it out it is very sensible and fun to play with. The cyclical phases are fun to go through and structures a good flow of gameplay. The games writing shines! It is interesting to read the 'lore' (which by the way is written in a non-canonical fashion). The gameplay concepts are delivered and explained in a common sense attitude and you get to feeling like a buddy is describing his well thought out idea for a game to you. It feels clear that the game has been plenty tested and still the game trusts you with filling out the blanks as you see fit and fun. All in all the best time I've had with a new game system in a long while!

This is THE Halfling supplement to own.

Like, it makes me want to defenestrate my Greyhawk Halfling module and weep at all the time I've lost trying to figure out a good way to do halflings. At least I made it this far and there is hope again.

What I like about this supplement is how it dials everything down to everyday living, low stakes aggravations with your neighbors and the local wildlife. It goes a long way in explaining what the Halfling viewpoint really is and why its so powerful.

You really get what Gandalf meant when he said that Hobbits could be as strong as old tree roots.

Formatting is simple and straightforward, not hard to scan. Very little wasted text. Artwork is not annoying, supports the mood of the text. Flavor is minimal and extracted solely from the crunch, which is awesome. Lots of easy to use tables. You could do an entire Halfling campaign just in a shire like village with this stuff.

Like, I immediately started using this in my Warhammer Fantasy campaign to pump up the jam and it fits in nicely, no shoehorning. Halfling town is in the house and dressed to the nines, yo!

I got a whole new mess of Halfling-centric careers out of just a few results from a random table. How cool is that? And those whacky and cute Halfling spells....yesssss, love love love it.

I've had this PDF sitting on my laptop for a while. Now that COVID has mostly passed and I can have people over again, I figured it was a good time to start a new campaign. I told my players it would be halfling-focused and I was going to use UH,BW to establish a hometown for the heroes (to reduce the chance of murder hobo incidents).

They never got out of the Westmarch.

My players got enthralled in the the goals, gripes, and pastoral life of their wee folk. One player rolled up a complication of a homely suitor making advances, another wanted to fix his damaged inn, the party was easily drawn into a conspiracy involving blind dates, a hatchet throwing contest, and a beehive. By the time the players were in the river using their long tobacco pipes to snorkle air while they waited out the swarming bees, my players were hooked. We spent the whole session preparing for market day and the inevitable spingtime dance afterward.

They may never leave the Westmarch.

This game is a lot of fun with with right palyers and GM. I'm sure its not for everyone, especially at first. My group pot-lucked a lot of food, so it got us into that propper hobbit mood. At the end one player in particular was quite happy there were no world shattering consequences or epic quests, just the very gentle desire to cook the best pies for Market Day. We will be playing again. There will be more mischief and misadventures, but when they do finally get to a business trip (that is definately not an adventure) outside their hedge, they will feel that their hearth and home is a place worth fighting for.

Five Stars - (I hope someday there is one fo these for dwarves too!)

I don't want to sound overdramatic, but... this is literally the cutest thing I have ever owned. What a delightful and wholesome interlude from dungeon crawling. It completely avoids combat and the dreary, torch-counting edginess of your typical sword-and-sorcery campaign and replaces it with cheeriness, warmth, and a solid base upon which to build puzzles, mysteries, and social challenges.

If you've ever wanted a lighthearted 'Slice of Life' RPG with lightweight OSR styling, this is it. If you want the antics and silly misunderstandings of a hobbit-based sitcom where every problem is solved in 23 minutes with heartwarming moral at the end, this is it. Our first game basically turned into the Andy Griffith Show with the players finding amicable solutions to everyone's disputes; resolving everything with a bit of investigation and a smidge of cleverness. All in time for supper, of course.

But if you wanted a system that can also support the challenges of managing social circles, political intrigue, family drama, and strangers in a gossipy small town, then this is also it! It's meant to be light but you can pretty easily swing this thing into more drama than a decade's worth of Lifetime movies and Dynasty reruns if you wanted to. Our second game turned into drama over recapturing a loose cow that resulted in a land ownership dispute and all the kinds of horror stories you hear about HOAs and petty neighbor arguments. My players still talk about the drama and scandal of it all even though that was four or five game nights ago.

It's definitely different from your traditional tabletop game, but if it sounds even remotely interesting then I implore you to give it a shot. You'll quickly understand why Gandalf saw so much potential in those little Hobbits he adored.

This little game is utterly delightful! I've run tons of grand epic fantasy and more grim-dark than I care to admit to, but it is truly entertaining to play wee folk who have simple lives and haven't even heard of a dragon. The game lends itself nicely to play by post and solo play. Right now I'm about to print off another copy and tuck it in my One Ring Starter Box with its Shire sourcebook, to add some additional Hobbit flavor if I get to run that game (and to help generate Hobbit villages on the fly.) Highly recommended. Good for young players and gentle folk who need eased into something a little less Murderhobo.