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The following is an exchange from one of my players (currently playing the kender rogue, Theo) with someone on a WotC forum: Player: I love playing a Kender. I can do whatever I want and people just smile and nod. :) Other Person: I love playing a Kender. I can do whatever I want and people just randomly stab me in sensitive places of my body until I stop twitching. Then they burn the body, take off, and nuke the site form orbit, because it's the only way to be sure. The Other Person illustrates something I've been witnessing for years... Kender hate. For reasons that totally escape me, there are a lot of people who hate kender with a passion bordering on obsession. But I don't understand why? Is it from the novels? I hope not, every Dragonlance book Weis and Hickman ever wrote includes Tas as a key character in one way or another (and those books are among the top sellers in the Dragonlance book line). Is Tas so much more annoying than Regis, the halfling (from the Driz...

Night Flight The story starts off with a Qualinesti elf trying to tame a griffon. Afterward he follows a group of silver dragons heading for the city of Palathas. Before making it to the city, the elf is magically grabbed off the griffon and brought down in the forrest outside the city. There he encounters a mysterious gold skinned black robed mage who seems to know a lot about Kalthanan. In addition to his name, the mage also knows that the elf is an outcast, or dark elf, from Qualanesti society. The mage also uses magic to hide his "own dark thoughts" within the anger that Kalathan feels toward the elven society that exiled him. Afterward, the mage has no memory of what happened and warns the elf to never "cross the path of Raislin Majere again". As the mage walks away, Kalthan lies in pain as he hears a voice in his head saying, "follow him". Sometime later (probably the next day), Gnatch, a gnome, is unvieling a device for Lord Amothus (the ruler of Pa...

Not anytime soon... but in the meantime that didn't stop some creative folks from coming up with their interpretations of what Raistlin Majere and Tasselhoff Burrfoot might look like: (click on the photo to see more images and details on how the figures were made)