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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 1612325" data-attributes="member: 426">Mouseferatu, you make very intriguing observations that make me want to take a closer look at Eberron.  (So, far  a few of the concepts referred to in different threads -- such as elemental bindings -- have made me think of picking up Eberron.)Like Von Ether, I tried to have members of my old gaming group play other games.  However, I think that there was a reluctance to try other rules systems.  I think different groups will have different interests, so some may want straight pulp games and others may want some of those elements in another game.  As long as everyone at the gaming table is happy, there is no problem in my book.  Of course, sometimes it pays to have more than one gaming table or group.As someone with an interest in history, is there anything in Eberron like the "romance of the air" of the 1920s?  There was a fascination with aviators, and aviators themselves sometimes felt that they were part of a common group -- despite their nationality.  (If I recall correctly, did not Rudyard Kipling write some early science fiction where he viewed air travel as being a unifying factor among nations? I remember reading about such stories once.) Examples of popular figures who caught the public's imagination during this era were Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart.If you want to take the theme of parallels between Eberron and Earth from the post-WWI to pre-WWII eras, perhaps throw in some rampant economic speculation and boomtimes that go bust.  A bad economy can create widespread misery and make some people listen more easily to people offering simplistic solutions to their problems -- and finding someone to blame.</blockquote>

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