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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8272723" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>The biggest difference between Eberron's magitech and the stuff it takes the place of is ubiquity vs rarity. Airships aren't just new, they're only really usable by a single company. Sending stations are in any major city and many medium sized towns, but public access to them is pretty limited. They're expensive, and there's no competition. </p><p>Wands that cast cantrips require extensive training to have any hope of using, unless you have a natural gift for spellcasting, so if someone is pointing a wand at you confidently, you know they aren't the average Joe. Washing stones are something a town has one of, in the town square, and people are thus going to the town square to do their laundry. </p><p></p><p>Lamplighting is a trade skill equivalent to a pre-industrial ferrier or a modern electrician. </p><p></p><p>It's absolutely not the same, at all. It can have a similar vibe, but there is not a 1920's DnD setting. There is a setting that borrow some of the themes and aesthetic from the fiction of the 1920's and 1930's, but also from a bunch of other stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8272723, member: 6704184"] The biggest difference between Eberron's magitech and the stuff it takes the place of is ubiquity vs rarity. Airships aren't just new, they're only really usable by a single company. Sending stations are in any major city and many medium sized towns, but public access to them is pretty limited. They're expensive, and there's no competition. Wands that cast cantrips require extensive training to have any hope of using, unless you have a natural gift for spellcasting, so if someone is pointing a wand at you confidently, you know they aren't the average Joe. Washing stones are something a town has one of, in the town square, and people are thus going to the town square to do their laundry. Lamplighting is a trade skill equivalent to a pre-industrial ferrier or a modern electrician. It's absolutely not the same, at all. It can have a similar vibe, but there is not a 1920's DnD setting. There is a setting that borrow some of the themes and aesthetic from the fiction of the 1920's and 1930's, but also from a bunch of other stuff. [/QUOTE]
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