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<blockquote data-quote="cignus_pfaccari" data-source="post: 3847745" data-attributes="member: 14557">Yep.&nbsp; You don't have to have howling wilderness filled with ruins and scattered villages on the cusp of being overrun by howling barbarian hordes.&nbsp; You can, and those are perfectly acceptable, but scenarios such as presented by the OP are perfectly viable.It works very well in Eberron.&nbsp; Yes, Breland covers a huge swath of territory, and it does have some lightning rail lines...but not many, and communications aren't guaranteed everywhere.&nbsp; Many parts of Breland are presumably days or even weeks away from Crown intervention, even assuming that the forces are available, and that the Crown knows to intervene.&nbsp; Yes, that kobold infestation may be easily solved by throwing the army at it, but after the Thronehold demobilizations you've got only so many regiments, and even if they didn't have commitments on the border, it'd still take weeks and be horrifically expensive to get them there.&nbsp; That's why adventurers are so useful.&nbsp; Not only are they easier to move (5 people move faster than 5000), but they'll happily work for salvage, and if you do need to pay them, that's still cheaper.Brad</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cignus_pfaccari, post: 3847745, member: 14557"] Yep. You don't have to have howling wilderness filled with ruins and scattered villages on the cusp of being overrun by howling barbarian hordes. You can, and those are perfectly acceptable, but scenarios such as presented by the OP are perfectly viable. It works very well in Eberron. Yes, Breland covers a huge swath of territory, and it does have some lightning rail lines...but not many, and communications aren't guaranteed everywhere. Many parts of Breland are presumably days or even weeks away from Crown intervention, even assuming that the forces are available, and that the Crown knows to intervene. Yes, that kobold infestation may be easily solved by throwing the army at it, but after the Thronehold demobilizations you've got only so many regiments, and even if they didn't have commitments on the border, it'd still take weeks and be horrifically expensive to get them there. That's why adventurers are so useful. Not only are they easier to move (5 people move faster than 5000), but they'll happily work for salvage, and if you do need to pay them, that's still cheaper. Brad [/QUOTE]

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