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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 4119358" data-attributes="member: 32164">Okay, now that makes a whole lot more sense. Not that I'm entirely sold on the lightning rail, in the sense that it lends a bit of fantastical "cool" to almost any setting in the same way that (IMO) the bound-elemental airships do,* but in the context of Eberron, it works. And as a "lightning runner," I think that vehicle makes a whole lot more sense.I guess it really comes down to the fact that everyone draws the line somewhere on how fantastical they want their setting to be. And some things bother some people more than others. Bringing this back to raising the dead, I think it follows into a similar category. Some people like the implications of the rules as written in 3e, and find that those rules inspire them to be creative and make a setting that is interesting to them.Others (like myself) find those same implications either silly or disturbing, and would be happy if they no longer had to jump through hoops to make a different kind of setting work.Different strokes I guess.*One of my favorite bound-elemental airship moments came from a short story. Two deckhands on a bound-elemental galleon were talking and the younger, less-experienced one said something like: "Do you smell that? I think something's burning..." to which his older compatriot said "Kid, we're powered by a friggin' fire elemental! It always smells like something's burning!" Priceless... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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