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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8345922" data-attributes="member: 6915329">They're "problematic" in the sense that their racial lore is a convoluted, hypocritical, and rather stupid mess. I'm not saying toss kender, since they are a major part of Dragonlance's image. I'm saying maybe rewrite them a bit so they either not a race of kleptomaniacal liars or so that other people in the world realize that they aren't paragons of innocence.For example, as I've mentioned on other threads, kender have no understanding of personal property, nor do they fear repercussions from "handling" things. But their own entries say that they steal things and then lie about it--which they wouldn't do if they didn't fear getting in trouble--and that they will gladly take anything they see that interests them (which is everything). And that entry I linked says kender often believe their lies, in which case that means they're actually delusional, and they don't like being called thieves because they apparently believe that they have permission to take things from other people. They are written as an entire race of people with some major delusions.So, change kender in this way: They have no understanding of personal property. If they have a need, they take the thing that they need. Once they no longer need it, they give it back. If they see someone else has a need, they take the thing and give it to the person who needs it, under the (probably very wrong) belief that the person will also return it once it its done. If someone confronts them, they honestly say that they took the item because it was needed.This, right there, turns kender from annoying little thieves into people who actually don't understand personal property but who take things only when they're needed. I'm not the one comparing them to Romani.</blockquote>

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