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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jimmifett" data-source="post: 5755795" data-attributes="member: 55006">The kind of things that breed inventions such as these in an Eberron setting are rare. 1-5 ppl on the continent may have the idea for the quick release straps after getting into a situation that would have been great to have them. Now that the thing exists, it's concept, utility, and construct has to be communicated to others and demonstrated. In the real world, communication is near instantaneous and mostly reliable. In Eberron, even with sending stones and spells and such, you need to have access and money to use such services. This leads to very slow lines of communications to spread ideas and inventions. Factor in that you may be eaten by a monster before ever reaching a place from which to communicate your invention, and it can be lost and recreated by others several times before it makes it out into a wider world to be replicated. It does no good to have a clever gear system on a battlefield that you invented, only to die the next morning in battle with 2 other bodies lying on top of you. The only ppl to notice might be ppl looters searching bodies for easy money, scouts looking for intel, or the poor schlub that buries all the bodies. The chances of noticing that "hey, this guy's backpack can detach via a magic word or squeezing two hooks together on this latch" are pretty slim. Into the mass grave it goes, maybe lost forever.</blockquote>