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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9809885" data-attributes="member: 5948">I wonder how many of those stories have happened in the past 20 years, or are they hoary old tales from the 80s?  I'm running Dragonlance now, and I allowed kender characters, and one player rolled one up (a druid/cleric of Habbakuk).  It's a group of mostly younger people who'd had nothing much to do with Dragonlance before this campaign (one guy had played part of the original DL modules back as a 12yo) and ... none of them had ever really even heard of kender.  The kender PC is being played as incurably curious, enthusiastic and talkative, and there's been no problems at all.I think long marination in and enthusiasm for the old Tasslehof novel lore is probably a poor indicator as to how a kender PC will work out, but I think the problems with them are overstated these days.  Dragonlance has been a backwater for decades.  The cultural memory among most modern gamers of 'kenders as annoying kleptomaniac jerks who want plot immunity for being jerks' is just not there, at least if you're under 45.</blockquote>