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2017-12-14, 02:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-12-15, 11:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-12-15, 11:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Heh heh.
Any character in an RPG with kleptomania is a danger to the game. The PC will steal from NPCs, getting the party into trouble, and from other PCs, inconveniencing and angering them. They're enormously disruptive.
And the creators of DragonLance, an otherwise awesome realm, saw fit to make an entire race with this trait.
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2017-12-15, 12:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-12-15, 12:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Neither. Tracey Hickman is a Mormon, and found the concept of a race of thieves (aka
hobbitshalflings) problematic for a lot of reasons. So they created Kender, and things just kept snowballing. Janet Pack's responsible for a lot of the saccharine super-cutesy stuff, and Roger Moore did most of the rest of the damage with his DRAGON editorials (ditto gully dwarves and tinker gnomes--RM is the guy who condemned all three to comedy race status instead of refugee analogues, research scientists trying to replace magic with Science! and the Lost Boys/Lord of the Flies expys).
Then jackhole players got a hold of them and played it to the hilt.
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2017-12-16, 07:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Count me as never knowing that the heck got people so up in arms about Kenders. They're amusing, their complete lack of self-preservation is honestly just how every PC acts anyway so at least they have an excuse for being as dumb as the rest of the party already is, and the kleptomania is called out constantly as them being basically magpies - a properly played Kender will not steal the Bloodsoaked Mace Of Smashing +3 in your bag. They'll take the bauble next to it because it's way shinier and more interesting than a ball with spikes or a sharp stick.
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2017-12-16, 02:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Were they? I actually don't know, when I read Dragonlance for the first time, it actually predated my access to internet forums. I know RPG players get up in arms about them, but for people who are just fans of the books, I have no idea. Personally I quite like the Kender in the books.
Though, I'm also in the camp of being the sort of person who can play a Kender, and do a good job of it to boot. It's really not hard to do. You just have to not be an *******. Not acting like an ******* is (or at least should be) a basic skill.
I think they weren't designed with the intent to let players play as them but as characters for a fantasy book.Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
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Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2017-12-16, 03:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Nope. They were designed for the Dragonlance modules and were thus open to players from the get go. The novels only came about because someone in editorial demanded tie-in fiction, due immediately and Weis and Hickman basically wrote up the Let's Play of the playtest. Which is why things get a little wonky by the start of the third book--they hadn't played those modules yet.
It's really not hard to do. You just have to not be an *******. Not acting like an ******* is (or at least should be) a basic skill.
The unquenchable curiosity of kender drives them to investigate everything-including other people's possessions. Kender appropriate absolutely everything that catches their eye. Physical boundaries or notions of privacy are both alien concepts to them, while the monetary value of an object means nothing to them. Kender are never happier than when their hands are in the pockets, pouches, or backpacks of those around them.
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2017-12-16, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
It does say that monetary value isn't meaningful to them, though. So there's still plenty of room to say that they're unlikely to steal valuables unless they've got some other reason to want them - so they might steal a magic weapon they know how to use, if they need one, but not one that they can't.
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2017-12-16, 05:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Interesting.
Why? You can play a humble elf, a claustrophobic dwarf, or a dieting halfing if you want. They don't take penalties. (At least, not in any edition I played in, though admittedly, I started in 3.5). Anyways, I took my cue on how to play a kender from the books.Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2017-12-17, 12:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
AD&D had a lot of bad ideas. Bonus XP for high abilities and losing XP for not following the One True Way were arguably the worst.
It does say that monetary value isn't meaningful to them, though. So there's still plenty of room to say that they're unlikely to steal valuables unless they've got some other reason to want them - so they might steal a magic weapon they know how to use, if they need one, but not one that they can't.
According to the rules, it's perfectly in character for a kender to steal your arrows and shoot them all away trying to see which will go furthest. Or to decide they want to be a wizard and nick your wands and scrolls and use them up (if they pass the skill check, natch). Or decide to try to take up music by blowing a bugle when you're trying to do anything quiet.
They were pretty much deliberately written to be a magnet for jackholes, and they're given plot immunity as well, since you can't even scold them without drawing negative karma. Actually harm (or worse, kill) them and you start the slide to CE.
I've seen any number of re-writes that work so much better, starting with the 3E halfling.
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2017-12-17, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Last edited by Kantaki; 2017-12-17 at 01:42 PM.
"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2017-12-17, 06:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Truth be told, I have literally never had a kender in my parties that was a jackhole. I had, however, had players that made big shows of hating kenders in kender-less parties be so. Anecdotal data and all, but for now as a GM I tend to fall squarely in the camp of "the player who makes a big show of wanting to see all kender dead in some kind of revenge porn fantasy is far more likely to be a problem than the one who wants to play a dumb*** kender".
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2017-12-18, 11:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
New comic
For once Sydney is entirely justified in resorting to violence."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2017-12-18, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Yeah, there's something that even those of us with Lower Planes ancestry can get behind.
Plus, Dabbler was about due for another comeuppance.
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2017-12-18, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Given her predatory tendencies, I'm surprised Dabbler is allowed into the locker room, let alone the showers. She should either be magicking herself clean, or else using private facilities.
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2017-12-18, 03:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
For once Sydney is entirely justified in resorting to violence.
She straight up asked for magical help to keeping warm after her own latest act of stupidity.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2017-12-18, 04:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Princess Celestia's Homebrew Corner
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2017-12-18, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2017-12-18, 05:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Princess Celestia's Homebrew Corner
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Thanks to AsteriskAmp for the avatar!
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2017-12-18, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
She asked for a spell to make her warm, and Dabbler gave her a spell that made her horny. I'm sure that even a novice lawyer can argue that as being a form of sexual assault.thnx to Starwoof for the fine avatar
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2017-12-18, 08:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
If you watch a dog stop to sniff everything all day, then send it to fetch an item, you shouldnt be surprised when that dog stops to sniff it first. Seriously, outside of actual combat, everything dabbler has done, magically speaking, has involved sex or sexiness in some fashion. Even some of the combat! She is a freaking succubus, sex is her nature. Expecting her to do something in a nonsexual manner is like saying, "Dude, I asked you to bring me that plate, I didnt ask you to BREATHE while doing it!"
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2017-12-18, 09:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Sure, if the dog isn't intelligent. Dabbler is almost certainly capable of a non-sexual version of that spell. Or just using a frigging heater from her lab. Or conjuring a blanket. Point is, Dabbler likely had a thousand and one solutions to feeling cold and went with one that's half arousal spell.
Besides, my basic response to the whole 'it's my nature to sexually harass,' is 'well it's my nature to punch whatever sexually harasses me.'Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2017-12-19, 12:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Princess Celestia's Homebrew Corner
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Thanks to AsteriskAmp for the avatar!
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2017-12-19, 02:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
I don't understand how is this even debatable. If you tell a prostitute you need to get warm, inside a what was just a few seconds ago a scene of crime, her first action should not be to disrobe and start rubbing against you...
But this is wacky succubus shenanigans.
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2017-12-19, 06:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Btw even if that was her only spell option she could and should point out the side effect and ask whether she wants it anyway.
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2017-12-19, 07:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-12-19, 12:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-12-19, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: GrrlPower III: Crisis Of Infinite Filler Comics
Knowing Dabbler the blanket would molest whoever wraps up in it anyway, so the outcome wouldn't be any different.
"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2017-12-19, 01:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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