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<blockquote data-quote="Mecheon" data-source="post: 8566805" data-attributes="member: 6801776"><p>The background of the Kender is they needed a way to explain why halflings (Who were basically hobbits in the day) were always thieves, so they drew from the various 'little people' mythology from real life. It gave them that childlike curiosity and the never-growing-up attitude that is, Kender in a nutshell</p><p></p><p>Fey has been in the Kender's blood since day 1. If the Feywild existed back then? It would have been their place of origin. The only reason it didn't is because back then fairy stuff was seen as twee and not cool, whereas nowerdays fairy stuff is seen as slightly terrifying, and mystical.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Contrarily, I don't think we should be beholden to bad writing decisions that don't make logical sense. If something needs to be relevant in this day and age, you need to account for a modern audience. If something does not work, you shouldn't have to keep it just because someone wrote it in. Do we really need three towns in Kara Tur named after real-life beer brands?</p><p></p><p>Dragonlance's strength and the reason people talk about it is its story and characters. Dragonlance's strength has never been "This random magical rock made 90% of the actually interesting races" or "The coins are steel"</p><p></p><p>I was fine with them dumping off half the "Hammer Horror with the serial numbers filed off" Darklords from Ravenloft, along with the non-functional universe to try and make it a campaign setting that apparently never heard of trade or cultural osmosis. You'd better believe I'd ditch the bad baggage from Dragonlance the moment you gave me an excuse to, and I'd start with alignment restrictions on the elves and very specifically just flat out call Certain Groups Of Them evil</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mecheon, post: 8566805, member: 6801776"] The background of the Kender is they needed a way to explain why halflings (Who were basically hobbits in the day) were always thieves, so they drew from the various 'little people' mythology from real life. It gave them that childlike curiosity and the never-growing-up attitude that is, Kender in a nutshell Fey has been in the Kender's blood since day 1. If the Feywild existed back then? It would have been their place of origin. The only reason it didn't is because back then fairy stuff was seen as twee and not cool, whereas nowerdays fairy stuff is seen as slightly terrifying, and mystical. Contrarily, I don't think we should be beholden to bad writing decisions that don't make logical sense. If something needs to be relevant in this day and age, you need to account for a modern audience. If something does not work, you shouldn't have to keep it just because someone wrote it in. Do we really need three towns in Kara Tur named after real-life beer brands? Dragonlance's strength and the reason people talk about it is its story and characters. Dragonlance's strength has never been "This random magical rock made 90% of the actually interesting races" or "The coins are steel" I was fine with them dumping off half the "Hammer Horror with the serial numbers filed off" Darklords from Ravenloft, along with the non-functional universe to try and make it a campaign setting that apparently never heard of trade or cultural osmosis. You'd better believe I'd ditch the bad baggage from Dragonlance the moment you gave me an excuse to, and I'd start with alignment restrictions on the elves and very specifically just flat out call Certain Groups Of Them evil [/QUOTE]
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