Since my Halfling Lore Bard is progressing at glacier speed because I dont want to miss any content on him, I have started a Half-Orc Champion and I'm playing that guy now, because I want to finish the game for the first time in faster speed.
And all I can say while I'm very happy with the sheer damage output of the dude - I regularily miss my Halfling. The ability to reroll critical misses is just uber, and helps not only in combat, but also in dialogue and trickery.
So nope, no way I would rate the Half-Orc better than the Halfling. By the way the Halfling advantage also helps ALL classes; though being Bard, the jack-of-all-trades class, makes their advantage especially obvious. While Half-Orcs are only really good at being warriors. The moment you no longer use a weapon you no longer get a benefit from the extra crit damage.
I totally agree about halflings, especially lightfoot haflings, which have advantage on stealth checks on top ( which the dude totally forget to list).
My first playthrough is a halfling lore bard too and so far she is just really good. I started some other playthroughs too, to see, what will be my next, but nothing is that much fun than this halfling.
