The option to play kender can actually be a good barometer of a player's overall gaming style if you're still feeling them out. In my experience, folks who have a tendency to be annoying and dickish when they roleplay, are moreso when given a kender "excuse". Conversely, most folk can and do play kender in a less-than-rage-inducing manner. I actually don't mind including them in DL games, and ...
[+]This thread is all about Kender. | Dungeons & Dragons / Fantasy D20 ...
Long, long ago my gaming group had the groupthink kender-hate in full effect. So I ran a one-shot game, where the character choices were kender, tinker gnomes, or gully dwarves*. It was glorious. The kender were cheerfully "borrowing" from one and all, the gnomes were filling their pouches with rocks so the kender would "borrow" those instead of useful items, they couldn't resist following the ...
I don't hate Kender. | Dungeons & Dragons / Fantasy d20 Spotlight
Do you like Kender? Then you better stay out of this thread, because it is not for you. Kender really were incredibly awful, weren't they? Just a poorly executed, poorly thought-out idea all around. The most annoying, clueless race in the world with a cultural talent for pissing people off...
A huge population of afflicted kender refugees moved in and were accepted to the region, causing tension and strife between them and the "true" kender. The afflicted kender are distrustful and insist on shoring up Hylo's defenses, while the true kender believe them to be cursed (yet are still too good-hearted to oppress them).