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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mxmarkargent" data-source="post: 1699419" data-attributes="member: 6446">I think the only reason they used the word "medieval" is to emphasize that Eberron is not a setting where you can get +1 flintlocks. Yes there are knighthoods and monarchies in Eberron, but there are knighthoods and monarchies in the 21st century, too.There are obvious parallels to be drawn between Eberron and Earth post-WWI, but there are other parallels that can be drawn to the Enlightenment and the Renaissance. One of the exciting things about Eberron is that it's a world on the brink of a lot of massive changes. It's a medieval world in many ways, but it won't stay that way for long. The Treaty of Thronehold is as much the Magna Carta as it is the Treaty of Versailles. The three remaining monarchies of Khorvaire are all unstable in one way or another -- the only reason they're still around is that there haven't been any revolutions...yet. Artificers, magewrights, the lightning rail, and warforged are all relatively recent developments, and where one development occurs, others follow shortly. Their (arcano-)industrial revolution hasn't happened yet, but it's on its way. In fact, the key phrase behind Eberron is "it hasn't happened yet". But it will. Eberron hasn't found its Cromwell, its Da Vinci or Galileo, its Martin Luther, Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson...but it will. That's what the PCs are there for.This is one of the major appeal Eberron has for me. Many of the old TSR settings felt static to me, like the big stories had already been told and the PCs weren't included. Eberron is at the beginning of the story. Those thousands of years of history described in the book? That's the title crawl. That's over. Time for your story.</blockquote>

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