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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 1648201" data-attributes="member: 18549">Doesn't a low population density indicate that there's lots of room left to expand into, which hasn't yet been expanded into?  Just because there are some big city-states doesn't mean they've done anything with the lands inbetween.  Especially when those lands are full of trolls.  Trolls eat people.  It's a bit of a pain in the butt.  Especially when the only people who are willing to go out and settle into those lands are commoners (read: troll chow).  You may insert your favourite wandering monster where I place troll, above.I always thought that fantasy settings were too heavily populated considering the number of natural predators the PC races have.  If you can't go further than ten miles from town before a sphinx eats you, you don't go any further than that.  That land doesn't get settled.  It might get some primitives that can live in a hostile situation, but they're not going to be very well-established if there's a day-to-day threat of being devoured by a hostile organism.And as for the technology infrastructure needing support from a large population base...the technology in Eberron is magical.  It doesn't need a support structure.  You craft the item, it works forever.  End of story.  The lightning rail isn't a regular railroad that needs a constant crew of maintenance workers keeping it going.  It's a huge friggin' line of magic items that carry the train around.  You don't need to have any support structure except someone to serve you lunch on the train.The _only_ issue I can see is the XP cost of building all these magic items everywhere.  A magewright only has so much to give before he just peters out.  But since pretty much everything was built before a really big war that decimated the population, you can assume that there used to be more people, and many of those people were crafters.</blockquote>

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