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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stone Dog" data-source="post: 2931285" data-attributes="member: 16705">He is talking about the period in time just after WWI.  The Great War and all the horrors and heroics that it inspired.  With the inclusion of the Last War and the dread of whatever caused the Mournlands and the cold war brewing between the remaining four of the Five Nations Eberron makes some attempt to capture the feeling of that period in time (20's-50's or so) that had hope and horror in equal measure.  That had advances to both improve lives and destroy them.Pulp action comes in no small way from the stress and trials of a continent sized conflict that invades almost every aspect of life, even to people across an ocean.  When that conflict is suddenly shut down without any real sort of resolution as what happened in the Last War (nobody won, the Mourning forced a treaty) international tensions still hum and vibrate.  There may not actually be a war, but the tropes of such a pervasive conflict are still there.   That is part of the feel of pulp and something that the setting of Eberron does that other settings don't really touch on as much.Truth that Eberron isn't doing any one thing particularly new and original.  However it is putting together a world that has different assumtions than any other published D&D setting and at least attempts to make a world similar in spirit to the Western World after and during the two World Wars.  Pulp was at its heyday back then and if Eberron doesn't match what pulp was, it at least makes an attempt to tap into the spirit of it.</blockquote>

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