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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7912082" data-attributes="member: 93670">Couple problems with that is the fact that despite existing harpers dont really do anything and it's easy to take over ownership of resource production/finished good production just by sharing enough tech to modernize them .&nbsp; A 30 or 40% stake in a business that now produces 50-100% more per GP cost with lower risk because someone associated with the new boss is managing security for the region instead of random necromancers kidnapping villagers or marauding bandits kicking over a slightly corrupt lord who keeps things running before walking away to leave a power vacuum of lawlessness. Keep in mind the harpers aren't stopping pcs from doing the same kinds of things the houses would be doing.&nbsp; Nobody in fr is on megacorp status with the kind of organized profit driven structure the houses have.... its absurd to suggest that the do nothing super friends of fr are equal in the same ways.As to why spelljammer threads involve setting arguments&nbsp; so often, that is simple.&nbsp;&nbsp; Wotc likes to ignore the lore, baseline assumptions, planar/technology/societal differences of settings like Eberron and dark sun then take that willful blindness and base the &quot;shared multiverse&quot; on those aspects as they apply only to fr, grey hawk, and plan escape.&nbsp; Also I'm on mobile but iirc the setting war started because someone pointed out how planescape can't claim itself most advanced with everyone else looked down on as primitives if they are only using tech hundreds or thousands of years behind blue age athas, giants of xendriik, dhakaani empire, or any of the still active Eberron civilizations causing people to leap to the defense of fr and greyhawk.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 7912082, member: 93670"] Couple problems with that is the fact that despite existing harpers dont really do anything and it's easy to take over ownership of resource production/finished good production just by sharing enough tech to modernize them . A 30 or 40% stake in a business that now produces 50-100% more per GP cost with lower risk because someone associated with the new boss is managing security for the region instead of random necromancers kidnapping villagers or marauding bandits kicking over a slightly corrupt lord who keeps things running before walking away to leave a power vacuum of lawlessness. Keep in mind the harpers aren't stopping pcs from doing the same kinds of things the houses would be doing. Nobody in fr is on megacorp status with the kind of organized profit driven structure the houses have.... its absurd to suggest that the do nothing super friends of fr are equal in the same ways. As to why spelljammer threads involve setting arguments so often, that is simple. Wotc likes to ignore the lore, baseline assumptions, planar/technology/societal differences of settings like Eberron and dark sun then take that willful blindness and base the "shared multiverse" on those aspects as they apply only to fr, grey hawk, and plan escape. Also I'm on mobile but iirc the setting war started because someone pointed out how planescape can't claim itself most advanced with everyone else looked down on as primitives if they are only using tech hundreds or thousands of years behind blue age athas, giants of xendriik, dhakaani empire, or any of the still active Eberron civilizations causing people to leap to the defense of fr and greyhawk. [/QUOTE]

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