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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 4813715" data-attributes="member: 50304">Frankly, the "Wahoo" style settings don't appeal to me. I'll take Greyhawk over Forgotten Realms any day, let alone Eberron.I prefer the "rubber forehead" aliens / demi-humans are playable races because it is easier to piece together some sort of rhyme or reason behind their social structures and traditions. Having every civilization in a game world at least tenuously evolved out of our real world notions of human tribalism / barbarism is important to me. It creates a baseline "social physics" that encourages role-playing. Trying to create that same baseline for the more "Wahoo" races is just too much work.I'm not a huge fan of well-developed, wide-spread Magi-Tech infrastructure for the same reason. 3E style teleportation, for example, compromises too many classical tropes such as the Merchant Caravan or the Trade Route Wars. Re-skining them to fit the new "technology" is, again, a bunch of unnecessary work.What can I say? I like the world to be kept consistent and simple so players are comfortable attempting to boldly manipulate it through role-playing.- Marty Lund</blockquote>