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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8065311" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Honestly, I could care less about guns, but I want more magic-based technology. I want to take Eberron for a second, with the reminder that Eberron was not made to have guns. But there were things Eberron was made to include that just make too much sense. 1) A mail service. A sending Stone pair costs between 400 and 500 gold according to Xanathar's. Even if we assume that a dollar equals a silver piece, that is around $5,000. The US spent over half a million on a single transcontinental telegraph station within their borders. Communication is so key and so vital, that people would be spending the money on this. A single highly trained mage might take time and money to get, but pay out 400 gold every month (covering the 200 crafting cost) and hunt a few magical reagents, and you have instantaneous communication across any distance. 2) Transportation. Flight, Teleportation Circles, heck even something as simple as maintaining roads with Mold Earth or filling potholes.   How much does the Airplane industry spend on planes, runways, fuel, ect? A whole lot more than it would cost a wizard to build two teleportation circles to allow instantaneous travel between two cities. The list could honestly go on. I know one of the conceits of a lot of games are "No one remembers how to make these things, they are relic of our glorious past" but, the rules still exist for making these things, and a clever person could make them work for cheap enough that people would be able to use this stuff. We have the ability to read minds and reveal the truth, that would be used in spycraft and justice systems, and in fact, it would be seen as a tragedy if a town or city was too poor to afford the services of a truthseer. Enough of a travesty that I bet certain religious orders would have traveling lawyers, who do charity work by going to small towns and offering their services. Guns are literally the most boring thing you could create. I'd rather see a museum where historical events are recreated through illusion magic, showing you what happened in exquisite detail, instead of a boomstick to kill things with.</blockquote>

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