Eberron isn't Steampunk

[JoeGKushner]

Of course, the relative levels of penniless are quite different today than they were in the Middle Ages.

Technology was responsible for a massive redistribution of labor. The mill helped turn farmers into bankers.

Clearly it didn't. However, it did address many of them. When was the last time you had a bad case of cow pox? Small pox? Polio? When was the last time you had ricket or scurvy? When was the last time a group of viking raiders swept through your town, burning, looting, and pillaging?

--G

On your last part, it really depends on what part of the world your in, even in America. No Viking Raiders, but how about gansters? Burning, looting and pillaging? Have you been paying attention to racial riots that aren't infrequent enough? Polio? I know someone from West Virginia who has it and has metal pins in his back to help him stand straight.

Do not assume that technology has wiped away the woes of the world.

Of course none of this includes the problems with technology. More efficient ways to raise fish and chicken? Yup but now they don't have Omega-6/3 in 'em and you have to do something else to get that. Want State Farmed Fish? Well, you better be a healthy male and eat it only once a month or have to start worrying about mercury poisoning.

There are still numerous things being discovered even today but most people tune that out. Heck, now we think dinosaurs are birds. In a couple years when they need a new plot for Jurassic Park 7, they'll be down to aliens. "Yes, the dinosaurs have returned to their true forms. Our masters and lords..."

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

Well, I am certainly looking forward to halfling dino riders.

I guess the thing that concerns me most is the question of how much the pulp will add to the fantasy and vice versa.

I mean, while d20 has yet to be produce a satisfactory pulp game, I don't really feel comfortable playing dnd pulp unless I can see that it adds some really new and cool things to the genre.

Replacing tech with magic is cool, sort of, but it seems like an unnecessary step unless it adds new and cool stuff to the dynamic.

That's what I want to see, the new and cool stuff from the new technique and the creative solutions to new problems caused by the new technique.