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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraith Form" data-source="post: 2866013" data-attributes="member: 10789">And some people in the 1920's still remember (and were participants in) the Civil War.  Heck, Old West gunslinger Bat Masterson was still alive in the '20's.The back of the CoC rulebooks, from the 4th edition on, also had a great many lists of news events and inventions and unusual phenomenon, to give you an idea of what was happening/available.  Phones were uncommon--not RARE, just not especially common--at the beginning of the 20's and gradually became more prevalent.  Cars were becoming prevalent, but many older people saw them as frivolous or "toys", and small (poor) towns still had horses & carriages in many instances.  Cameras were still in their infancy.  And radios were a booming industry, especially post-1925--but those big ole cabinet-style radios that look like R2-D2 got flattened.The best way to handle the '20's is to just come up with the best info or rules resolution you can regarding whether something is available, make it seem like you know what you're talking about (you probably know as much as anyone else in the room if not more) and be consistant.  If you later find out that you were wrong, so be it--unless it crumbles the plot, roll with it.  Next adventure, explain the error and correct it permanantly.</blockquote>