Eberron: The Metaphor

[apegod]

I would see these relations:

Aundair - France (wine, etc.)
Breland - Great Britain (parliament, etc.)
Karrnath - Germany (Evil troops, an evil leader, beer,...)
Thrane - Maybe Italy/Vatican (religion, etc.)
Cyre - ???
This would fit with the enmity of Aundair and Karrnath and with some other characteristics and feels of the 5 Nations. I'm at loss concerning other lands in Eberron. (Okay, the Mror Holds are obviously Switzerland )[/QUOTE

How about Reidra as Russia. Controlled walled off society. Spies. Plans for world domination. Could be hook for cold war.

 

[Tarril Wolfeye]

How about Reidra as Russia. Controlled walled off society. Spies. Plans for world domination. Could be hook for cold war.

Nice idea, but after thinking about it, I would prefer the Lord of Blades as Stalin

 

[Flyspeck23]

Nice idea, but after thinking about it, I would prefer the Lord of Blades as Stalin

Because "Stalin" means "Man of Steel"?

 

[Tarril Wolfeye]

Because "Stalin" means "Man of Steel"?

LOL!
If that is true, then Superman = Stalin.
But seriously, I think Riedra has more in common with communistic China, making Adar somehow like Tibet.

 

[fanboy2000]

The Atomic Bomb

Warning . . . . This may contain spoilers for Shadows fo the Last War, and some may feel this contains spoilers for ECS, depending on how much players are supposed to know in a given campaign.

...the ancestral home of House Cannith, disappeared in a conflagration of arcane energy near the end of the Last War

...monsters mutate into even more foul and forible creatures. Arcane effects continue to rain upon the land like magical storms that never dissipate. Msshapened by the unnatural forces present across the regin, monsters rage and hunt as they struggle to survive. Sometimes even the dead, animated by strante powers radiating from the blasted ground, rise up to continure fighting the war that has long since ended for the living. In this land of disaster and mutation, a charismatic warforged gathers followers to his side and seeks to build an empire of his own.

These discriptions remind me of the atomic bomb. Not of how atomic bombs work, but rather, how they work in comic books and pulp stories published sense the atomic bomb was droped on Hiroshima on Aug 6th, 1945. (Almost 59 years ago...) Radiation has been a mainstay of comic books sence the 50's. Spider-Man, The Hulk, and many others got their powers from radiation, or (in Spider-Man's case) things that were radioactive.

This thread mostly focused on similarities between WWI and The Last War. I've run about three game sessions in Eberron, and I'm starting to think that what they did was pillfer from every sorce of mystery, intregue (sp?), and suspence they could get their grubby little hands on. It would make sense to combine the two, sense actions in WWI contibuted to WWII.

 

[Arani Korden]

And they also love Iron Chef, but only when it's fantasy.

Uresia d20!