Halfling Mug

Halfling drinking vessels in fantasy fiction are never dainty. They are broad in the body, generous in the handle and built for a hearth-side chair, a long evening and a longer story. That is the idea behind this piece: a stout tankard form with the slightly irregular, hand-turned character of something made in a village workshop rather than a factory. It belongs on a games table, where anyone playing in a cosy pastoral fantasy setting will recognise the type immediately, and it does just as well as a desk piece for dice, pens or brushes, or as an ornament shelved beside other tavern props. It comes as a multi-part kit, which gives a bit more scope than a single lump of geometry — worth knowing if you would rather make a project of a model than simply queue it up.