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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6777360" data-attributes="member: 6701872">A detail that is functionally no different from a not-detail likely should remain a not-detail on purpose to give the word count that would be spent detailing exactly what it is that not many people actually know to something which most people do know, or at least something that is framed to encourage DMs to focus a campaign or adventure upon it.And the idea that most people don't know that elementals are actually sentient in the setting that involves an entire sub-heading under the heading "What Every Adventure Needs" dedicated to the topic of painting the world in shades of grey, rather than black and white, because a red dragon can be noble and heroic while a silver dragon is a despicable villain, doesn't sit right with me as a reason why there aren't people that do know that elementals aren't willingly hired to help out on airships, and have no confirmation that they are sentient but act on the suspicion alone to try and free these elementals because if they are sentient (and in a world were basically everything else is, why wouldn't they be) they are likely not happy. Now, see, that is cool that at whatever point along the product run that book came out someone at least addressed that someone might not be entirely cool with what is being done to the elementals. It's just too bad there wasn't a memorable line in the original setting book (the only one I've actually owned and read through) to the effect of "...but not everyone that knows how these airships operate thinks using elementals in this way is acceptable." Didn't even have to be really detailed, just provide the idea that there is some conflict of opinion on the topic.Now that you've told me about this, though, I plan on seeing if any of my Eberron-liking buddies have a copy of Magic of Eberron that I could borrow for a read.</blockquote>

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