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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 1650081" data-attributes="member: 4682">You cut it from the excerpt you quoted. Here it is, "the prices are appropriate for the economy of Khorvaire".And you got animal messenger wrong on it's range, as has been pointed out. It's as far as a bird can fly in 3 days.Not that it matters for you, but the price of services on p. 121 has House Sivis charging 50 gp for whipsering wind.Typical peasants in a feudal arrangement don't live lives where they need to chat with their relatives a hundred miles away.  They wake up, they work the land, they eat, they go to bed. They go to market seasonally where they pick up the latest news, unless their manor lord decides to tell the news he just heard from the latest whispering wind or animal messenger.Yeah, that this is nearly a non sequitur? Internet access? I think I see your point, but the world did do just fine before the Internet, before the telephone, before the telegraph. The Pony Express was a revolutionary idea at its time that folks thought would change civilization by being able to connect far flung settlements of  the American West.  Is anything in Khorvaire much different than the Pony Express? Did the West fly apart before the Pony Express? House Sivis has a network that can relay written messages, 5 gp per page... probably exactly like the Pony Express did it.Plus the competitor House Orien has mail service that costs 1cp per mile... probably as long as it is along its coach/caravan network... and when you get too far from main settlements, other tiny villages are probably going to set up along those route, like the American West was settled with towns along rail lines.  So those "average pesants" have an affordable way to communicate with cousin Jeb in Sharn that doesn't violate the "feudal-like" lifestyle they live... and it's not an arcane Internet.And keeping the prices where they are sustains the feudal-like society that the designers say it has?  Whew!  We can finally bury this thread. We agree.<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=";)" />The fall of the Soviet Empire... Another non sequitur? In large part? Uh... ok...I'll entertain this for a moment.  But who was it in the Soviet Union who used the "cheap, reliable communication" that brought it down? And how does bringing down the Soviets relate to Eberron?  Is there an totalitarian empire that needs to be dismantled, and whispering wind is the secret weapon if it were only 60cp?</blockquote>

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