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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 459800" data-attributes="member: 2020">(chuckles)  Yes, in a humorous campaign I could see a place for kender ... or in a world with a real sense of humor.  After all, kender were never meant that seriously, or meant to be taken that seriously.  - - -    My dark assessment above assumes a typical campaign world, though, not Krynn or a humorous setting.  This typical setting, is a serious setting.  In this setting, many nations exist around the kender nation.  Most of these are non-good nations.  The following sequence of events occurs:  1:  Kender travelling outside of their nation into the surrounding nations are attacked and killed, or imprisoned, or sent back to the kender nation.  2:  This situation endures for a while.  3:  Then one of the non-good nations gets tired of the kender nation, and invades it, intending conquest.  4:  Initially, the kender consider this quite exciting.  However, as the horror of war sinks inevitably in (even to their heads), the kender start fighting back on the same grim basis as their foes are fighting.  5:  The war escalates, the now Afflicted Kender driving the non-good nation back.  6:  The war further escalates, and becomes genocidal.  7:  All the other nations around the kender nation are pulled into the war.  Some stand with the kender, because they were always enemies of the non-good nation (they do not stand with the kender for the kender.)  Others stand with the non-good nation.  8:  There is continental war, leading to widespread destruction and death.  9:  The Afflicted Kender lose.  Their nation is wiped out ... OR ... the Afflicted Kender win.  They begin an awful, brutal occupation of the nation that invaded them (the idea of rulership by children driven into savagery and madness by the attempted murder of them all, is enough to make me shudder.)  10:  Assuming the kender won (above), the other nations surrounding the kender nation and the occupied nation, go to war against the kender to stop their behavior towards those they defeated.  11:  The war begins again, more ferocious and awful than ever before.  12:  The Afflicted Kender lose.  They are obliterated ... OR ... the Afflicted Kender win over ALL the other nations, and begin an EXTREMELY BRUTAL AND HATE FILLED occupation of all the other countries.  The kender behavior breeds anger among the others peoples.  The anger breeds hate.  Hate breeds war.  War breeds horror - massacre and rape, pillage and mass destruction.  The innocent nature of kender is destroyed, they become like abused children - filled with anger and hate.  They become Afflicted Kender.  The entire region is reduced to ashes and ruins.  Entire races become extinct.  This is not Ansalon, Krynn, remember.  This is a campaign setting more akin to Greyhawk, where NPCs have a much harsher attitude in general towards behavior such as typical kender exhibit.</blockquote>

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