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[Scribe]

Please tell me what racial trait Kender's got in 1e-3e that they aren't getting now, ASI aside?

Add back ASI, and I would be good.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Add back ASI, and I would be good.

nah, attaching it to background makes way more sense.

 

[Remathilis]

I think the kender is a GREAT example of why the D&D community's view of lore should be ignored writ-large:

D&D players for years complain kender are disruptive, resulting in large number of DMs banning them and player's KoS them.
WotC hears this and, in concert with their larger view of race, opts to make kender less disruptive. They do this by making their handling a magical effect. The community REEEEEEEEs that they made kender's magical fey creatures. WotC relents, restores their Graygem origin story and emulates their OS racial traits, and the community REEEEEEEs again that they are bland and boring and wants them to be the annoying disruptive race of thieves that most DMs have banned, and other PCs hunt for sport.

WotC was damned no matter what they did; they gave us a new magical take on kender; players complained. They recreated the original racial traits as faithfully as possible in 5e, players complained.

 

[darjr]

It has begun!

 

[Remathilis]

Add back ASI, and I would be good.

Good news: you can assign a +2 Dex and +1 Cha to your kender and pretend the book told you so.

 

[Scribe]

nah, attaching it to background makes way more sense.

That's an option but I don't know that it's backwards compatible.

Good news: you can assign a +2 Dex and +1 Cha to your kender and pretend the book told you so.

Nah if it's not part of the actual write up, and throw in Alignment too, just go back to pre-tashas, I'm going to need something more interesting and less generic.

Which, thanks to another segment of the player base I won't be getting, so, i just will care less, and not buy it.

 

[darjr]

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Nah if it's not part of the actual write up, and throw in Alignment too, just go back to pre-tashas, I'm going to need something more interesting and less generic.

Which, thanks to another segment of the player base I won't be getting, so, i just will care less, and not buy it.

That seems much more generic and less interesting. Alignment is still a thing last I checked.

 

[Scribe]

That seems much more generic and less interesting. Alignment is still a thing last I checked.

As part of race write up???

 

[MonsterEnvy]

As part of race write up???

Oh you are talking about what some races lean towards. That's not really needed in my opinion.