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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8239473" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Firearms took quite a while to obsolete melee weapons and bows.He also goes into detail on how DMs can use the setting conceit that industry is magical, rather than technological, and specifically how that might mean that the Eberron crossbow is much more advanced with magically crafted reloading mechanism and more powerful arms, or any number of other things, but none of it is necessary to make the setting believable.&nbsp; Literally only Force Grey and the like would even survive a trip into Undermountain. And here’s the thing. In real life, about 3 million people live with 20 miles of Mt. Vesuvius. It will explode again, and that event will result in thousands of completely avoidable deaths.Because people ignore danger that isn’t in their face. Every day. Throughout history, in every region of the world, regardless of culture. So you are claiming, presumably with a straight face, that it is unbelievable that a city would ignore the danger of a thing that they never see, that rarely actually threatens the city, and that actively makes the city money? Really!? I’m flabbergasted. You’re objectively wrong. Absolutely they would largely ignore under mountain.They’d have to throw most of the lives of all the forces you listed to do anything permanent about it, it threatens the city very rarely, and it’s one of the main reasons there are so many adventurers in the city in the first place. I just cannot fathom the idea that anyone could find it unbelievable that people would be illogical and shortsighted, en masse.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8239473, member: 6704184"] Firearms took quite a while to obsolete melee weapons and bows. He also goes into detail on how DMs can use the setting conceit that industry is magical, rather than technological, and specifically how that might mean that the Eberron crossbow is much more advanced with magically crafted reloading mechanism and more powerful arms, or any number of other things, but none of it is necessary to make the setting believable. Literally only Force Grey and the like would even [I]survive[/I] a trip into Undermountain. And here’s the thing. [I]In real life[/I], about 3 million people live with 20 miles of Mt. Vesuvius. It [I]will[/I] explode again, and that event [I]will[/I] result in thousands of completely avoidable deaths. Because people ignore danger that isn’t in their face. Every day. Throughout history, in every region of the world, regardless of culture. So you are claiming, presumably with a straight face, that it is [I]unbelievable[/I] that a city would ignore the danger of a thing that they never see, that rarely actually threatens the city, and that actively makes the city money? [I]Really!? [/I] I’m flabbergasted. You’re objectively wrong. Absolutely they would largely ignore under mountain. They’d have to throw most of the lives of all the forces you listed to do anything permanent about it, it threatens the city very rarely, [I]and it’s one of the main reasons there are so many adventurers in the city in the first place. [/I] I just cannot fathom the idea that anyone could find it unbelievable that people would be illogical and shortsighted, en masse. [/QUOTE]

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