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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6697055" data-attributes="member: 5143">The book suggests excuses to use for stealing. At least one of them is "This certainly looks like yours doesn't it?That's not an excuse that one gives if they only intended to borrow something and give it back. That's an excuse that a race of kleptomaniacs who try not to get caught say. It's telling that Tass never once returns something in the book without someone discovering the stolen item and accusing him first. I can understand people having a distaste for tieflings, half demons aren't the tone everyone is going for in their game. But the key with every other race is that they have certain inclinations but can be role played in a completely human way and very few people are going to say you are doing it wrong. Elves like forests but if you play one who lived in the city his whole life, everyone will just say "oh, so you are a city elf. Awesome." Even if someone role plays the heck out of their love for trees, they might be a bit annoying but they likely won't ruin a campaign. They are unbelievable but in an amusing way. Kender are unbelievable in an entirely different way. They are the only race whose description literally encourages Kender players to say "Oooh, a dragon. I've never been eaten by a dragon before. I wonder how that would feel." And then actually pry open the dragon's mouth and get inside.Tass actually said those words in one of the books and was about to head toward the dragon when one of his friends pulled him back. (I think, it might have been the time that he rationalized that he still wanted to have more adventures with his friends first and would come back LATER in order to feel how it felt to be eaten by a dragon)Literally every campaign I've been in that has allowed Kender as a race has ended up with the entire party either dead or imprisoned because of the actions of the Kender. It's caused bad feelings out of character, a large debate on whether the Kender was "just role playing their character" and eventually the collapse of the entire campaign. That hasn't happened with any other race.</blockquote>

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