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Kender Wanderlust: other planes?

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#1
zombiegleemax
Dec 12, 2003 17:05:07 What does everyone think of kender traveling to other planes?
Specifically, I have an ongoing campaign where my players encountered kender in Faerun (Forgotten Realms, icudk). Immediately, several of my players wanted to drop their characters and start playing kender caught up in wanderlust!

Now, I know there are literary precedents for kender on other planes- in KENDERMORE, several kender settle into a "pocket dimension" or demi-plane; also, the infamouse Tasslehoff himself has been know to wander in planes he shouldn't otherwise be in...can anyone else cite examples of planes-wandering kender? And what do you think of kender in Faerun?

Apologies if this has been posted before, I am new to the boards.
#2
kipper_snifferdoo_02
Dec 12, 2003 18:00:04 There is a crossover trilogy between DragonLance and FR with Fistandantilus Reborn, Finder's Bane and Tymora's Luck. At the end of Fistandantilus Reborn a kender makes his way into the planes and joins up with the hero from Finder's Bane in the novel Tymora's Luck.
#3
zombiegleemax
Dec 12, 2003 18:06:17 You know, now that I think about it, yeah, you are right Kipper- in fact, I've read Tymora's luck. I never realized it was part of a series! This explains much...must find the other two.
#4
zombiegleemax
Dec 12, 2003 18:07:45 Well, the Dragonlance Tinker Gnomes and the Kender are common in the Spelljammer series and the Planescape series respectively. This wouldn't make sense according to the new cosmology but back int he old days it all seemed to work.
#5
banshee
Dec 13, 2003 10:21:54 My Planescape campaign, which is temporarily on hold while we try out Swashbuckling Adventures, includes a planar-travelling kender. It seems to work fairly well. When you're in the planes, meeting fiends, celestials, gith, bariaur, and the wide range of creatures to be found there, Kenders are only one among many extraplanar horrors.

Banshee
#6
ferratus
Dec 14, 2003 2:39:27 D.C. and Marvel don't have a common cosmology either, but their superheroes seem to encounter each other with surprising regularity.

If any race on Krynn qualifies for the "Horizon Walker" prestige class in the DMG, it would be the kender. If you want kender in the shadow plane (perhaps with a shade template tacked on them), then all the more power to you. Heck, any plane in Krynn's cosmology.

Hmm... maybe that's the hruldrefolk came from. ;)
#7
zombiegleemax
Dec 14, 2003 17:24:09
Originally posted by ferratus
Hmm... maybe that's the hruldrefolk came from. ;)

That may be. However I'm more concerned with the origins of the huldrefolk.
#8
banshee
Dec 14, 2003 21:49:53
Originally posted by Andre La Roche
That may be. However I'm more concerned with the origins of the huldrefolk.

Do you mean the Huldrefolk? Or the Hulderfolk? Two different races. One is a mysterious race of extraplanar faeries from the Grey, who bear a suspicious resemblance to the Grays of the X-Files.

The other is a race of elves in Taladas...

Banshee
#9
cam_banks
Dec 14, 2003 22:32:13
Originally posted by Banshee
Do you mean the Huldrefolk? Or the Hulderfolk? Two different races.

Neither of which should be confused with the hurlderfolk, who are an offshoot of ogre who like to throw gnomes and kender long distances.

Cheers,
Cam
#10
zombiegleemax
Dec 14, 2003 22:35:19 Or of course the Hurdler folk, dwarven kings of track and field.
#11
banshee
Dec 14, 2003 23:02:08
Originally posted by Cam Banks
Neither of which should be confused with the hurlderfolk, who are an offshoot of ogre who like to throw gnomes and kender long distances.

Cheers,
Cam

Yes.....the hurlderfolk.....not pleasant.

Poor, poor Thistle...

*shakes head*

Banshee
#12
zombiegleemax
Dec 15, 2003 10:10:42 Or the unpleasantly named "hurlerfolk", who have +4 to their ranged projectile vomiting...and I think I just went too far...

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 zombiegleemax Dec 12, 2003 17:05:07	What does everyone think of kender traveling to other planes? Specifically, I have an ongoing campaign where my players encountered kender in Faerun (Forgotten Realms, icudk). Immediately, several of my players wanted to drop their characters and start playing kender caught up in wanderlust! Now, I know there are literary precedents for kender on other planes- in KENDERMORE, several kender settle into a "pocket dimension" or demi-plane; also, the infamouse Tasslehoff himself has been know to wander in planes he shouldn't otherwise be in...can anyone else cite examples of planes-wandering kender? And what do you think of kender in Faerun? Apologies if this has been posted before, I am new to the boards.
#2 kipper_snifferdoo_02 Dec 12, 2003 18:00:04	There is a crossover trilogy between DragonLance and FR with Fistandantilus Reborn, Finder's Bane and Tymora's Luck. At the end of Fistandantilus Reborn a kender makes his way into the planes and joins up with the hero from Finder's Bane in the novel Tymora's Luck.
#3 zombiegleemax Dec 12, 2003 18:06:17	You know, now that I think about it, yeah, you are right Kipper- in fact, I've read Tymora's luck. I never realized it was part of a series! This explains much...must find the other two.
#4 zombiegleemax Dec 12, 2003 18:07:45	Well, the Dragonlance Tinker Gnomes and the Kender are common in the Spelljammer series and the Planescape series respectively. This wouldn't make sense according to the new cosmology but back int he old days it all seemed to work.
#5 banshee Dec 13, 2003 10:21:54	My Planescape campaign, which is temporarily on hold while we try out Swashbuckling Adventures, includes a planar-travelling kender. It seems to work fairly well. When you're in the planes, meeting fiends, celestials, gith, bariaur, and the wide range of creatures to be found there, Kenders are only one among many extraplanar horrors. Banshee
#6 ferratus Dec 14, 2003 2:39:27	D.C. and Marvel don't have a common cosmology either, but their superheroes seem to encounter each other with surprising regularity. If any race on Krynn qualifies for the "Horizon Walker" prestige class in the DMG, it would be the kender. If you want kender in the shadow plane (perhaps with a shade template tacked on them), then all the more power to you. Heck, any plane in Krynn's cosmology. Hmm... maybe that's the hruldrefolk came from. ;)
#7 zombiegleemax Dec 14, 2003 17:24:09	Originally posted by ferratus Hmm... maybe that's the hruldrefolk came from. ;) That may be. However I'm more concerned with the origins of the huldrefolk.
#8 banshee Dec 14, 2003 21:49:53	Originally posted by Andre La Roche That may be. However I'm more concerned with the origins of the huldrefolk. Do you mean the Huldrefolk? Or the Hulderfolk? Two different races. One is a mysterious race of extraplanar faeries from the Grey, who bear a suspicious resemblance to the Grays of the X-Files. The other is a race of elves in Taladas... Banshee
#9 cam_banks Dec 14, 2003 22:32:13	Originally posted by Banshee Do you mean the Huldrefolk? Or the Hulderfolk? Two different races. Neither of which should be confused with the hurlderfolk, who are an offshoot of ogre who like to throw gnomes and kender long distances. Cheers, Cam
#10 zombiegleemax Dec 14, 2003 22:35:19	Or of course the Hurdler folk, dwarven kings of track and field.
#11 banshee Dec 14, 2003 23:02:08	Originally posted by Cam Banks Neither of which should be confused with the hurlderfolk, who are an offshoot of ogre who like to throw gnomes and kender long distances. Cheers, Cam Yes.....the hurlderfolk.....not pleasant. Poor, poor Thistle... shakes head Banshee
#12 zombiegleemax Dec 15, 2003 10:10:42	Or the unpleasantly named "hurlerfolk", who have +4 to their ranged projectile vomiting...and I think I just went too far...