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#1 zombiegleemax Sep 23, 2004 18:19:09	I am sure that so many of us have either played kender, played with kender or DMed kender. What are some of the names that these kender have had? Does an afflicted kender have a name that is a little bit more somber than an unafflicted kender?? :P
#2 zombiegleemax Sep 23, 2004 18:23:00	I will be the first to add to this new and exciting thread: Burpy Hairytoe
#3 zombiegleemax Sep 24, 2004 9:30:47	I cant believe that no one has answered this question in the 12 hours or more than it has been on.
#4 brimstone Sep 24, 2004 11:31:57	I'm not so much curious about the names, but I am curious about how many people have actually played kender (or how many DMs have allowed them in their games). It's not looking very promising. ;) (Clarion seems to think my name is kender like...not my handle "Arek" but my real name, "Tobin.")
#5 zombiegleemax Sep 24, 2004 14:17:58	Kender are sweet. All that's is required is that the person playing them have an IQ better than 75. I had a Kender Rogue NPC I used for a while, Kief Pathfinder.
#6 iltharanos Sep 24, 2004 14:35:45	I've been running my Dragonlance Campaign for a year now and in all that time I've had one player play one kender. He was quite a hilarious fellow, but then the player decided to retire him so that he could explore other roleplaying options ...
#7 zombiegleemax Sep 25, 2004 1:04:15	I'm currently not DM'ing my campaign at the moment, but I have allowed kender. I first let my girlfriend try one out as she fell in love with the race when she read the books. She was new to D&D and this was still under 2E, so I figured she could exploit all the bonuses and ignore the penalties becuase she didn't have a clue about them. She did quite well, everyone in the group hated and loved her character. Her first kender Pendal Lockenkey died in an unfortunate accident, but she did quite well, and I have allowed her to play one whenever she wishes. I had a rules lawyer try to play one, but that was a catasrophe. Although, having a rules lawyer in general is usually a catastrophe.
#8 zombiegleemax Sep 25, 2004 11:53:30	I have seen kender played well and kender played horribly (greedy and coniving and not even an afflicted kender). I think that if kender are played correctly that the party both loves and hates the kender. OOPS!
#9 zombiegleemax Sep 26, 2004 23:21:15	We actually have 2 kender in our group...a Kender Sorcerer who contains the soul of a Brass Dragon, named Whistler Tunesinger(came from a long line of bards). The other one is a tribal Mystic Kender named...Sharkbait Oohaha. He had just watched Finding Nemo.
#10 tlomon Sep 26, 2004 23:31:45	I have always allowed kender to be played in my past campaigns. Despite different people playing them, people who didn't know each other, two trends definitely occurred over and over. Gemstones (Topaz, Zircon) Deserts (Creampuff, Tiramisu) Very weird stuff. Oh, and I definitely agree with the IQ over 75 comment.
#11 zombiegleemax Sep 27, 2004 12:03:09	Burby seems to be quite enamored with anything that is alive, he really likes animals and has begun a collection of them. He has even fed baby eagles.
#12 zombiegleemax Sep 28, 2004 4:16:17	I have been running a Dragonlance campaign for a few years now. None of my players has ever wanted to play a kender, however, I have played a few. I am one of those weird GMs who play an active PC at the same time (a lot different than an NPC, but that is another topic). Anywho, my favorite was a kender bard named Jasmine Thistleknot, I loved her. I also had a rogue/master thrower named Kestrel Brineswallow. I also had the party go to the Tomb of the Last Heroes and meet the multitude of Tasslehoff Burrfoots. Lastly, I had an afflicted kender NPC once, who was a ranger. I don't quite remember his name, but he was so messed up that he changed his name to something common like "Chris" or "Bob".
#13 zombiegleemax Sep 28, 2004 10:48:59	Are afflicted kender more difficult or easier to play than a regular kender?
#14 zombiegleemax Sep 29, 2004 19:13:46	I don't think that they were harder to play. In fact, it was kind of a relief for me to play an afflicted kender while I was GMing because I could let him do his own gloomy thing while everyone else was doing stuff. I mean, I probably exagerrated the whole "afflicted" thing, making him really depressed and quiet and such, but you know, it seemed to work with my players who had never seen an afflicted kender before. The only hard part for me was not putting any type of emotion in his speech. I do a lot with voices when I GM, so it was difficult to play a kender but not get excited about every little thing.
#15 zombiegleemax Sep 30, 2004 12:45:27	Do afflicted kender have weapon familiarity with hoopaks?
#16 zombiegleemax Sep 30, 2004 17:11:49	Actually, regular kender don't technically have proficiency with hoopaks according to the DLCS (though it is the only DL book I have so far, so they might have changed this with the Age of Mortals book). I think this is retarded and make it so every kender has proficiency with hoopaks (there aren't even stats for the hoopak in the DLCS. Anyway, you have to remember that afflicted kender are still kender. They were born a real kender with the same curiosity and such, but they were witness to the destruction of Kendermore by the red dragon Malystyrx, thus causing them to be so depressed if you will. So I think that if you are going to make regular kender proficient with hoopaks you need to do the same to the afflicted kids.
#17 zombiegleemax Sep 30, 2004 17:55:57	I think that was added to the DL Dungeon Masters Screen.