Magic (CBGH)

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: "I could tell that they feared me when I came into their village and demanded a place to sleep for the night. Gave me a nice room, they did, too.
: "But when I woke up, everything I had in my pockets, my pouches—even my wand and the rings from my fingers—all were gone! Only my spellbook was left—though how they knew about the runes I'd put on it to fry anyone who touched it besides me I'll never know.
: "I spent the whole morning negotiating for most of my equipment back. Then, when I would have turned to whole nest of them into an anthill, something made me think the better of it. A couple of them might have stuck me with arrows before I could finish the spell—not a pleasant prospect.
: "So I left, and brother, let me tell you it'll be a long time before I subject myself to halfling hospitality again!" 
:: —Parzemon the Mighty, Wizard of Thay
Sorcery is one area of power where halfling skills are lacking. Their inherent resistance to magic protects them against many of the power-crazed spellcasters in the world, but it also prevents them from mastering those forces for themselves: no halfling has learned much about the wielding of arcane power (although comic tales about bumbling but well-intentioned halfling apprentices are popular in many places). Unlike many humans and dwarves, they do not regard magic as particularly threatening; trust in their innate resistance enables halflings to extend to spellcasters the typically friendly greeting they give to all strangers—a fact which no doubt explains the fondness some wizards have for the race.