Maybe it's about a system, a specific mechanic, lore, builds, types of players, ttrpg-adjacent products - whatever they are, share them.
Maybe it's about a system, a specific mechanic, lore, builds, types of players, ttrpg-adjacent products - whatever they are, share them.
I have two:
5e is a terrible system for classic D&D play - levelling up, ongoing stories, grand adventures etc - that combined some of the worst aspects of previous editions with a vague goal of simplification. The unbalanced gameplay, lack of high level support, and general lack of rules instead make it the perfect system for short, low stakes fantasy side stories. Don't even give the players real PCs, just a disposable npc statblock, and tell a 1-2 session story with a high amount of randomness and no need for the players to succeed and you'll have an absolute ton of fun. Use a real system for longer campaigns.
The widespread hatred of Kender is just racism - Pathfinder's Goblins share a lot of personality with Dragonlance's Kender, but their non-human appearance makes their non-western morality, particularly their concept of ownership existing in use, more palatable to players. Kender are held to western standards and regarded as theives and troublemakers, whereas Goblins are just seen as uncivilised and condescendingly regarded as not knowing better.
There's so much player-excreted shit that is just badly-camouflaged racism from typically the whitest motherfuckers in the community. Kender, Halflings, Tieflings, Goblins, Orcs, and Drow hate especially. That's part of my intensive vetting process anymore-- I gotta find out how the GM and players at the table feel about those races, and find out if there's already table in-jokes that sum up to applying real-world prejudices to fictional species. If there is, I can't be there; and it'd gall you to find out just how many tables I've walked away from for one instance of what I'm talkin bout occurring at that table.
Idk, I think part of it is that D&D Kender have been around way longer, and earned their reputation from problem players playing as Kender to be assholes and ruin everyone else's fun. Pathfinder Goblins came into existence in a much more mature and "regulated" community which already knew better.
I would have agreed with you a few months ago, but then I played a game where only I and the DM knew what a Krynn was and I had to explain Kender to the other players when it was revealed our npc friend wasn't actually a halfling.
You'd have thought I'd said they steal pc levels the way most of the players reacted - we were both careful to avoid language implying their borrowing is some kind of theft, but it's still what they immediately latched onto. They had no prior knowledge of their reputation, it was an entirely knee jerk reaction to learning about them.