I'm just wondering. For me allowing something so incredibly tied to a particular setting to be played outside of it just jarring and not appealing at all (as DM or a player at the table of a DM doing so). I'm getting the impression that some others feel differently, so I want to see where most are at.
I have seen Kender allowed in a Ravenloft campaign. I wasn't the DM. Since Ravenloft is extra-planer I can kind of understand it but I would in no way encourage it.
Yes I would. It is no more or less difficult then allowing Dragonborn or Tieflings.
I suppose if you had to include the 4E lore for them. The fact that Tieflings existed in Faerun before that though kinda dilutes the potency of said lore.
I mean, Kender w/o the lore are what, annoying halflings? Not much new there.
Not allowing Kender is basically the same reason I don't allow Drow. Dark elves? Sure. They're just elves of another skin color. But Lolth-worshipping suberterrainian psychopaths with some kind of crazy civilization nobody knows about? No.
Oh, I think they work very nicely as a mysterious cabal living in the shadows of the high elf empire, advancing sinister plans.I do not really see the point of having Dark Elves if they are not a psychopathic subterranean spider loving cult of personality.