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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hawkshere" data-source="post: 1612638" data-attributes="member: 2417">Other useful post-war tropes abound, too.  Besides the Great War parellels, WWII begat the Cold War, and the 'unfinished business' nature of the Treaty of Thronehold plays right into cold war intrigue.  Berlin Airlift type jockeying wouldn't be out of place.  Although there may be great tension held in abeyance by the Treaty, it exists for a reason and the new status-quo will grow to have its own staunch defenders.One of the important elements of the Western is the post-Civil War setting.  The belated SciFi Channel series Firefly made a scifi story from this western blueprint, where the protagonist is a surviving soldier of the losing side and ekes out a disallusioned but independent existance on the fringes of civilization.  I've read of a playtest Eberron campaign (one of Hellcow's?) where the party consisted entirely of Cyre survivors and expats -- how cool is that?  Stormreach (the 'gateway to Xen'drik' trade town) can be part Cairo, part St. Louis with a little imagination.The destruction of Cyre can even bring some WWIII/post-holocuast themes to the table.  I think the Last War is the central thematic linchpin of the setting (with the extra-planar/abberant invasion cycle following just behind).  I'm a little curious as which stage (1-pager, 10-pager, bible) the Last War emerged in the design......Irrelevant Aside: I am left to wonder just exactly when The Gneech is not bitter about something.  Further speculation about the human body drowning in its own bile ensues.  Yuck!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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