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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1650625" data-attributes="member: 891">That's a false statistic because until recently most of the USA was not actually the USA - Washington only thought it was.The settled regions had higher density. You can't look at total land, you need to look at settled/controlled land.If Eberron assumes most of the claimed land is not settled land I would have no issue. I've seen hints that this is the case, but we will have to wait to see details on the nations for an answer to that.Like jgbrowning said, this is just criticism, not an attack. And I frankly don't even know if the criticism correctly applies to Eberron. I'm just pointing out the bar I set for criticizing a setting over this issue, and that the issue is important to me.Finally, it would be nice if WotC could realize that just like rules, sometimes setting details can be errata'd if they don't end up giving the desired results.If they didn't intend Eberron to be a vastly open continent with little tiny pockets of civilization, then rather than try and rationalize it over and over for years and years and thus turn people likle me against it (as happened with FR), they could simply add a zero or some other number to some of the figures and call it a patch.Just like you fix the fullblade or the halfling outrider when you realize it didn't give the desired result, a note in a setting can also get an errata and help to make a lot of people have a lot easier time accepting something they want to like.And I -DO- want to like Eberron...It looks very nice, but I am the sort of person who gets caught on the details, when those details are so basic and so vital to internal logic. Nor am I alone. I may be a vocal minority - but I represent a very large segment of consumers, even if they are still a minority. Satisfying us would not at all upset the parts of the community who don't care, and would be very easy.If all I got was a little zero tacked onto to some numbers (or whatever fits the original intention) in a 'web enhancement' from WotC I'd be happy as a bug in a rug, and I doubt it would upset the people who don't care about numbers one bit.Easier than it was to fix the two rules issues I mentioned above. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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