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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenjib" data-source="post: 1068279" data-attributes="member: 530">If Eberron really does incorporate "magical" industrial technology extensively (we only know about the train for sure now, right?) then I also think that it would be more interesting to take a look at how to make the more high-magic elements unique rather than copying industrial items.  I could see that as a very interesting undertaking.What would a transport system look like based on magic extrapolation from horse and cart (rather than railroad)?  Aircraft based on seacraft have already been done and is interesting.  What else can you extrapolate from medieval technology via magic to create things that do the same things as devices today, but in a very different way?I think that could actually be a very interesting setting.  A bunch of industrial technology where they swap the engineering for magic, however, seems like a cheap shortcut.  I'll wait and see if that's what is really happening though.  We still don't know. What other interesting juxtapositions could be made?- A network of teleportation chambers that are like castle gatehouses, complete with guards, taxable goods checks, and protocol for only allowing certain nationalities access.  The price to use them is expensive but still within the ability for a peasant to use it, albeit rarely and only for very special occasions.- Communication networks based on courier gargoyles carrying scroll tubes from location to location or pairs of statuettes that copy what you say at a remote location.- Humanoid golems with holes in their backs for passengers.  The grab wheels between their hands and feet to move quickly.  The passengers can command them to move as desired.- An arms race/cold war of powerful wizards with the ability to summon elemental forces capable of instantly destroying entire cities.- Automated production facilities made by dwarven wizards that create golems to slave away in caverns deep beneath the earth, tirelessly turning out manufactured goods.- Street displays for business establishments that use permanent illusions to attract attention.Any other ideas?  Maybe we could make our own web-based community setting.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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