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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whisper72" data-source="post: 1649590" data-attributes="member: 17339">Definately pointless....All the extrapolations and real-world modelling is useless. If in the real world think-tanks with the mose brilliant ppl on the world have difficulty overseeing all the consequences of something as simple as the doubling of the oil price on the world-economic stage, let alone its further effect on consumer behavior, how the hell are we going to be able to predict in any way the real effect of magic and monsters on eberron? All claims about 'the population is base is not able to support x or y' are nothing more then smoke, pointless and baseless claims, as there are way too many variables that are too alien in eberron compared to anything we know to make such claims... With magic and different evolution / development, not to mention divine and 'alien' interventions from other planes etc, anything is possible to have developed on eberron and can be maintained using similar explanations... what if the use of magic curing diseases and more stability allowing for a better old age means less need for large families, and hence a birthrate that has been around 2.3 for the past several centuries?? Population would develop completely different!Let's not forget those monsters. Human spread across the real world is largely an effect of humans being the unchecked top of the food chain for the last 10,000 years or so, and thus being able to push out and establish without any problem in any type of landscape having all the time in the world to adapt. In eberron, as several ppl pointed out, there are many monsters / beasts that eat humans for breakfast, thus there are large swathes of land that are uninhabited. If you take out all the land not used by 'humans' in eberron, recalculate your population densities and think again.So... eberron could have any population density you want. Claiming that it is 'broken' is total nonsense. If it does not fit with 'your' look and feel for the campaign, this is another matter. Change it by all means to fit your needs....</blockquote>

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