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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1067875" data-attributes="member: 6929">The problem with a big hovering wurm thing, of course, is that passengers tend to thing it's gross too. And it's harder to make something look like a wurm than to bolt some metal plates onto a frame. The question then becomes, Is it a noticable difference to craft something so finely?I'm thinking, Yes.This does, however, indicate a sort of maturity in the technology (used in the sense of a technique used, and therefore applicable to everything from electronics to the practice of keeping cattle in a herd) of Eberron. Look at the development of firearms - in the early days you had these massive things with dragon mouths and stuff, and eventually they just gave up and started making them tubes with bits to hold onto, because that was easier.After all, what's easier - making a five-hundred-ton golem, or making half a dozen egg-sized levitators and putting them in a metal frame you got some dwarves to make you? (Not that Eberron dwarves are guaranteed smiths. Come to think of it, we don't know what they are.)</blockquote>