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Just picked up Changes, by Mercedes Lackey.

I don't know I am a sucker for the child from a horrible background makes good style adventure.

Only problem is the more I read her books the more horrible and dark back stories I am inspired to write, for my characters.

My favorite books were by David Eddings, rich if a bit stereotypical characters, that you could not help but to fall in love with.

Aaron Bitman, I like those house rules, I am going to add some to my own games.

The ones I did not immediately cut and paste, I and seriously considering.

I also lower the weights for saddles, and other mount gear for riding dogs, as they are medium creatures not large. And a hand full of other equipment that they just seemed to miss, that should be reduced for small characters.

If i have skill focus, it counts on the requirment for the prestige class or not ?

I think all, prestige classes are looking for number of ranks, not a total skill in a skill for prerequisites. So a high stat, feat, trait, race or masterwork item bonus, will not let you qualify earlier.

Raistlin Majere, and Tasslehoof Burrfoot were by far the most interesting characters in the series. "Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes" was among the first fantasy books I read in the very small library in my home town, (prior to that I was all science fiction), and it inspired me to tackle some of the bigger Dragonlance novels, I have probably about 50-100 Dragonlance novels, on my shelves.

Raistlin pulled off the very odd alignment Evil-Good, of course the very obvious evil things he did defined him, and the big good things he did were largely to serve his own desires "This happens because I want it to happen!", not really him doing them to be good. At the same time, every once in a while he showed compassion for the downtrodden, and weak, such as with Bupu. How many can so truly say they sacrificed themselves to save the world?

Tasslehoff, who could not love Tasslehoof, he has the innocence of a child, and the will to grow beyond what we would think is possible for a kender. He is one of the true heroes of the story, saving the world and having fun doing it. He even manages to sneak a little comic relief in on the side. He is probably why my heart is in fantasy, as opposed to science fiction.

Bupu, Dalamar, Kitiara, Tika, I though were good and interesting enough for the bit parts they played in the books. The rest of the characters were stereotypes we had already seen in too many books, or just plane boring and uninspiring, not to say they didn't have moments, but not enough to justify the amount of text dedicated to them.

In later series Palin, Usha and Linsha Majere were interesting characters, but as a whole I didn't like the later novels as much.

I find most people play kender badly, and that is why they have such a bad reputation.

A player, playing a kender should rarely if ever say they are stealing something, the DM should be letting the player know he stole something (probably right after the other player, evil cleric, mad lich lord, or merchant notices it missing, or sees it in the kender's hands / pouches. The DM should really limit the number of times it occurs; otherwise it just becomes an annoyance.

Kender will also not steal (handle) boring things like coins, unless they are unusual.

Not to say a kender may not deliberately steal something, usually on a suggestion of a fellow player character “Wonder if you could sneak up on that necromancer, and grab that bone wand he has?”, add "it sure looks interesting" if the kender has not started to go for it.

Remember, all kender are good, and typically a kender would never normally steal anything, in fact they practically blow out a vein in their heads if you call them a thief or pickpocket.

That being said a kender, Order of the Stars, Cleric of Fizban the Fabulous, first two skills they get each level are disable device and sleight of hand, and then they look at things like say Knowledge – Religion.