Talk:Halfling/@comment-28773064-20160617134013

Why is mentioned that Halflings have the "best thieving bonuses out of the demihuman races", when later their bonuses are listed as: "+5% Open Locks, +5% Find Traps, +5% Pick Pockets, +10% Move Silently, +15% Hide in Shadows."?

This Bonus summarizes as +40% overall, wich makes the second worst overall bonus due to the Races description pages...

Mere Humans have +10% Open Locks, +5% Find Traps, +15% Pick Pockets, +10% Move Silently, +5% Hide in Shadows, wich summarizes to +45% overall, Elves do better with +60% overall, Gnomes and Dwarfes do a LOT better with +85% overall and only Half-elves are worse Thiefs with +15% bonus overall...

Of Course, +1 DEX helps a lot, but a DEX19 Halfling ist still 20% overall short of a DEX18 Gnome.

And if you ignore "move silenty" and "hide in shadows" (because you're playing a Swashbuckler and don't do these hiding things), even Dwarfs wit DEX17 are far better than Halflings...

If all the thieving bonuses are correctly listed on the Race-Pages. If that's the fact, then Halflings have lost a lot of their Thiefing-Superiority in comparison to vanilla BG1. Poor little Hobbits...