Halfling vs. Dwarf warrior
 

I know dwarf has better starting stats, but I'm curious how useful hide and sneak are for a halfling warrior? Skill of only 50, so is it worth much?

You also will level faster than any other warrior as a halfling

and halflings are the master race

skill of 50, just means it takes a few tries sometimes to get a successful sneak or hide off.

super awesome abilities.

Both races get to wear the dwarven armor which is also awesome.

Thanks for the info Ele :) How do you tell when you've gotten a successful sneak or hide off?

And should I go Brell Serillis for dwarven armor, or agnostic?

To know if hide has worked, you need to con something that doesn't see through hide to see if it has changed from not indifferent to indifferent. You'll always appear to have gone invis on your screen, even though you might not actually have.

You can tell if sneak is working because you'll be moving slowly, and everything (EVERYTHING) will con indifferent to you if you are behind it.

Or hit esc and /tar yourself, if you can't target yourself then hide worked

halfing warrior, no contest

You don't need the +wis that the Brell Serillis version grants you, the regular version of the dwarf armor is awesome as is. People usually go agnostic.