Hobbits should be worse than other combatants of similar combat experience. They are supposed to be good adventurers, but not necessarily good fighters. IMO they should be great in other aspects of the game, and they are far from there: they have very few rewards dealing with these other aspects (exploring, sneaking, socializing) that is where hobbits should excel IMO. They have some rewards, yes, but they could have quite a few more of those and less combat-centric ones. Hobbits having 5 specific and one other reward usable in combat. This is quite massive, especially if the rewards are better than those of some other races. I would kill to have a long shafted axe rolling twice the quality die!
Small folk, kings blade, those sound good to me, but the other stuff not so much. But all this is an opinion of "gut belief" on what a hobbit should be able to achieve, and I assume that we will have to agree to disagree. For me hobbits have too much combat prowess, and for you not so much. No biggie, really
Xavi
