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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3966849" data-attributes="member: 3649">I wish we could call them 'Kender'. It's a nice name, but DragonLance has poisoned that well for all time. Then we could get away from people forming an expectation on what their character is like based on something the GM didn't write.I think it's somewhat ironic, though. They made all kender act the same as Tasslehoff, so people who dislike Tasslehoff dislike the entire species. People somehow expect that all hobbits were just like the western Shire hobbits when the more easterly hobbits were a more adventurous folk. (And taller, too, if I remember right. Fallohide hobbits were, I think, even a bit taller - up to 4E size. D&amp;D's Tallfellows were based on them, anyway. Funny that no-one ever complained about them being not the proper sort of halfling).One might even look at Bilbo as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator" target="_blank">unreliable narrator</a>, but then more than a few characters in Tolkien (or other well-written fiction) are as well. They're not third-person travelogues, disgorging impartial fact. Certainly he and his neighbors are bucolic stay-at-homes types, but it's obvious that Frodo, with his Tookish blood, is made of sterner stuff. He's been kept 'down on the farm' as it were, but he quickly grows into his natural role later on. Much like a 3E halfling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 3966849, member: 3649"] I wish we could call them 'Kender'. It's a nice name, but DragonLance has poisoned that well for all time. Then we could get away from people forming an expectation on what their character is like based on something the GM didn't write. I think it's somewhat ironic, though. They made all kender act the same as Tasslehoff, so people who dislike Tasslehoff dislike the entire species. People somehow expect that all hobbits were just like the western Shire hobbits when the more easterly hobbits were a more adventurous folk. (And taller, too, if I remember right. Fallohide hobbits were, I think, even a bit taller - up to 4E size. D&D's Tallfellows were based on them, anyway. Funny that no-one ever complained about them being not the proper sort of halfling). One might even look at Bilbo as an [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator]unreliable narrator[/URL], but then more than a few characters in Tolkien (or other well-written fiction) are as well. They're not third-person travelogues, disgorging impartial fact. Certainly he and his neighbors are bucolic stay-at-homes types, but it's obvious that Frodo, with his Tookish blood, is made of sterner stuff. He's been kept 'down on the farm' as it were, but he quickly grows into his natural role later on. Much like a 3E halfling. [/QUOTE]

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