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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Turner" data-source="post: 3197699" data-attributes="member: 12329">More great material to chew on.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I see where you're going here and I'm halfway with you.  We see this all the time in the modern world when it comes to U.S. defense or engineering contractors.  The Lockheed-Boeing rivalry for Air Force contracts and the Haliburton-Bechtel conflict for Iraqi reconstruction contracts strike me as examples of what you're going for.The analogy doesn't quite seem to extend to Eberron, though, since the setting really does contain monopolies.  There aren't a pair or trio of titans battling it out for the big contracts, like Haliburton-Bechtel.  There's just Kundarak for banking or just Lyrander for airships.  In this sense, I'm more in tune with what MoggleEmpMog writes later:Solarious brings out some great sources of potential competitive tension between the houses, even if MoggleEmpMog does take a tiny bit of wind out of those sails (and Jurgen's):Kudos to Solarious for helping me readjust my thinking there.  What I liked most about Solarious post, though, was the reminder about the Aurum!I hadn't even remembered that the Aurum existed, but now they're a great potential antagonist for what I have planned.  If not an antagonist, then at least a presence or force in the campaign.  The idea of rebellious, iconoclastic House members threatening the status quo also plays nicely into my ideas.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Ultimately, it might be better to emphasize the House of Saud characterization of the Houses over the zaibatsu/megacorp component.  In fact, maybe the Aurum would be better portrayed as the megacorp with the Houses on a pure Saudi model?</blockquote>

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