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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8838448" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>What happened in my area was that the people who played Kender wanted to play Tasslehoff Burrfoot specifically, the "lovable scamp" who was always performing pranks on his fellow party members (like the time he glued one of his "friends" sword into it's sheathe).</p><p></p><p>The problem was, while they had great fun themselves, these pranks were often not well-received by other players. Yet somehow, we were expected to go "oh that Kender, lol" no matter how much trouble they caused. Toss onto this "I'm just playing my character", and the AD&D trope of "my character is a Thief, stealing is what I do" that was already running rampant at the time, and you had people insisting that their aberrant playstyle was not only in-character, but officially endorsed!</p><p></p><p>Both players and DM's that I knew got tired of such antics quickly, and thus the Kender hatred was spawned. This actually got to the point that when I wanted to play a Kender (a Kender <strong>Barbarian</strong>, to be precise), all my attempts to reason with the group that I wouldn't be acting in that way fell on deaf ears. To them, any Kender was bad news.</p><p></p><p>The Drow boom eventually supplanted the Kender hate (later followed by Psionics hate), but it never really went away. And interestingly, over time, even official supplements started to veer away from the way Kender had been portrayed, with the dour Ravenloft Kender, or the broken PTSD Kender of the later eras, after Kendermore had been subjugated by a powerful Dragon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8838448, member: 6877472"] What happened in my area was that the people who played Kender wanted to play Tasslehoff Burrfoot specifically, the "lovable scamp" who was always performing pranks on his fellow party members (like the time he glued one of his "friends" sword into it's sheathe). The problem was, while they had great fun themselves, these pranks were often not well-received by other players. Yet somehow, we were expected to go "oh that Kender, lol" no matter how much trouble they caused. Toss onto this "I'm just playing my character", and the AD&D trope of "my character is a Thief, stealing is what I do" that was already running rampant at the time, and you had people insisting that their aberrant playstyle was not only in-character, but officially endorsed! Both players and DM's that I knew got tired of such antics quickly, and thus the Kender hatred was spawned. This actually got to the point that when I wanted to play a Kender (a Kender [B]Barbarian[/B], to be precise), all my attempts to reason with the group that I wouldn't be acting in that way fell on deaf ears. To them, any Kender was bad news. The Drow boom eventually supplanted the Kender hate (later followed by Psionics hate), but it never really went away. And interestingly, over time, even official supplements started to veer away from the way Kender had been portrayed, with the dour Ravenloft Kender, or the broken PTSD Kender of the later eras, after Kendermore had been subjugated by a powerful Dragon. [/QUOTE]
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