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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 455208" data-attributes="member: 4937">The question is not answerable because two members of the same alignment can be quite different from each other.   I can only hit the high points and try to talk about the difficulties that Kender cause ethically for the various alignments.Good: Kender are unreformable theives.  A whole race of Kleptomaniacs.  Theft is evil, and can result in great harm to someone.  Good aligned people are going to be quite uncomfortable around Kender.  Probably they will attempt to reform the Kender by explaining to them the harm that they can do in stealing things (much as you might try to explain it to a small child).  Among the better hearted Kender, this might result in some appreciation for the dangers of theft, but it would probably result in good hearted Kenders presuming to steal to do good.  In other words, percieving that the lack of something can cause evil, and percieving that someone lacks something, the good hearted Kender is motivated to steal from those that have and give to those that don't.  (Robin Hood is a concept that Kenders would grasp quite readily.)  You'd probably never get around that.  Even the most compassionate good aligned person would frequently become frustrated with the Kender, both for the crime of theft, and for the persumption of assuming (often wrongly) where an object would best be.   However, because they are good, and because even the worst sort of Kender has a sort of innocence, good hearted people would limit thier punishment on the Kender and seek to protect them by curbing the worst of thier excesses.Chaotic: Kenders seem to be enherently chaotic, possessing both wonderlust and wanderlust, no respect for rules, no respect for property, and a seeming racial delusion that causes them to live in a world were the meaning of events cannot be coorelated with the meanings commonly ascribed by the majority of sentient beings.  As such, they are likely to get along famously with at least some chaotics.   However, the more self-centered the chaotic the more offended they are going to be when they are the object of a Kenders predations and taunts.  So, Kender relationship with Chaotics are likely to be tempetous (which is almost a given really).   While most chaotics will overlook when the Kender violates someone else's rights and happily join in, they will vigorously protect thier own.  Evil: Theft is evil, and as such, evil characters will occassionally find Kender to be useful tools.  On the other hand, Kender do not make very good tools, rebel against any attempt to control them, and are simply impossible to enslave.   Most evil beings will become quickly frustrated with Kender, especially when the Kender fail to respect them or rebel against thier wishes.  In particular, evil creatures will find Kenders fear immunity frustrating, since it prevents them from employing their usual means of controling others - intimidation.  When conflict occurs, evil beings will have little compuction against using violence against such seemingly weak and helpless beings.  Bad hearted Kenders (and there seem to be few of these), will function in evil societies about as well as any other evil creature in an evil society (which is to say not that well at all).  Because they have a short attention span, it is possible that a Kender could be cleverly manipulated into thieving for a person (leaving behind the object once they are no longer interested in it), however, from time to time the Kender would reaquire interest in an important possession at an inoppurtune time.   Many evil beings will if they acquire the power opt to destroy Kender utterly in favor of servant more ammendable to control.Lawful:  Theft is usually illegal in most societies.  Where this is the case, and were special exemptions or customs for handling Kender acquisition differently do not exist, Kender will have a very rough time of it.   Most lawful societies will forbid Kender from participating in them at all.   Even the most good hearted lawful will regretfully find himself being forced to exact the requirements of the law on the Kender again and again.  Since lawful societies seldom smile on repeated breaking of the law, the punishments are likely to become quite severe quite quickly.  Justice tends to carry the day over mercy in lawful societies, with the result that your average Kender must be a quite skilled thief to avoid being executed in short order.    Kender have little or no respect for social norms, rules, tradiations, or heirarchy.  Even if they do not engage in theft, they will still stick out like sore thumbs in a lawful society.    Lawfuls will find Kender to be philosophically abhorent.  There existantance implies chaos, and they cannot be separated from it.  To a lawful, a race that cannot be lawful and cannot be made to be lawful is along with Cthulu 'a thing that should not be'.   Lawfuls will occasionally get themselves involved in purges to remove or exterminate Kender.    Summary: Kender are most likely to get along with Chaotic Good characters provided the Kender so some respect for other living things, most likely to be accepted in places were 'Tolerance' is regarded as the highest virtue (typically CG and CN), and most likely to be tolerated in societies that place little emphasis on material goods provided that the Kender himself places little emphasis on retaining material goods.</blockquote>

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