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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8272717" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I've never seen anything like a modern tablet in Eberron, not anything like a car, really. There are floating wagons, but they're still pulled by animals. And I won't fall into the guns rabbithole, so lets just leave it at; I disagree, on that one. And there certainly aren't telephones. No one in Eberron is having a fluid conversation in real time over great distance, except maybe high level magic users that can cast Dream. The closest we have is essentially a magical telegraph, except instead of a guy punching a trigger erratically for a minute, waiting, and then telling you what came back, a guy whispers into a magic stone, waits a minute, and then tells you want came back. Then we have radios. Hoooo-boy! Absolutely nothing in Eberron comes anywhere close to a radio. Not by miles. Wroat cannot send a proclamation out to all corners of Breland on a moment's notice. The closest they can get is sending telegrams to every sending station in the kingdom, and paying the premium for Sivis to pay Orien to send couriers to outlying areas with the message. It can still easily takes days for a message to reach a small farm town on the border. In the actual 1920's, such a town, at worst, would only have 1 radio, or something, and would very much hear the news the same day. By the late 1920's, in America at least, radios were fairly ubiquitous, and were changing the culture of the nation, changing how sports worked, changing how information was disseminated generally, and changing how we consumed media. I'm sorry, but a magic item that records a stage play and then plays it back is not, remotely, equivalent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8272717, member: 6704184"] I've never seen anything like a modern tablet in Eberron, not anything like a car, really. There are floating wagons, but they're still pulled by animals. And I won't fall into the guns rabbithole, so lets just leave it at; I disagree, on that one. And there certainly aren't telephones. No one in Eberron is having a fluid conversation in real time over great distance, except maybe high level magic users that can cast Dream. The closest we have is essentially a magical telegraph, except instead of a guy punching a trigger erratically for a minute, waiting, and then telling you what came back, a guy whispers into a magic stone, waits a minute, and then tells you want came back. Then we have radios. Hoooo-boy! Absolutely nothing in Eberron comes anywhere close to a radio. Not by miles. Wroat cannot send a proclamation out to all corners of Breland on a moment's notice. The closest they can get is sending telegrams to every sending station in the kingdom, and paying the premium for Sivis to pay Orien to send couriers to outlying areas with the message. It can still easily takes days for a message to reach a small farm town on the border. In the actual 1920's, such a town, at worst, would only have 1 radio, or something, and would very much hear the news the same day. By the late 1920's, in America at least, radios were fairly ubiquitous, and were changing the culture of the nation, changing how sports worked, changing how information was disseminated generally, and changing how we consumed media. I'm sorry, but a magic item that records a stage play and then plays it back is not, [I]remotely[/I], equivalent. [/QUOTE]

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