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#1 EnderXenocide0 Oct 04, 2014 6:17:23	My players are currently in the past (993 YK, to be precise) and I'm trying to figure out what difficulty level would be associated with crossing borders. What was this like? Were national borders closed? Were you allowed to travel from one nation to another provided you had proper credentials? Did temporary treaties affect this? The Forge of War suggests that House Orien still operated commercial lines near the start of the war, but it infers that this was only intranational travel. The novel Lady Ruin includes a character from Karrnath that studied at Morgrave University, which would indicate that you could certainly cross borders for something like education. But again... maybe Karrnath and Breland were friendly during those years.   I suspect that a study of WWI and WWII European borders would tell me a lot about this, but I've been unable to locate much on the topic that wasn't about America.
#2 Beoric Oct 04, 2014 11:44:20	I imagine that the Nations would have each wanted considerable control over its borders, so the best bet is to think what you were do if you governed a nation at war and wanted to control movement in and out.  Borders with strong allies (like Breland-Zilargo) would probably allow movement with the appropriate paperwork, but there weren't many of those.  Disputed borders would have largely been in military control, with series of military checkpoints.  Borders that are undisputed, but not adjacent to friendly nations, would likely have a combination of watchtowers and border patrols, with coastlines adding naval patrols.    Basically, if you are from a friendly nation, you need a reason and paperwork, if you are from a neutral nation, you need a really good reasona nd paperwork, and if you are from an unfriendly nation, they are going to want to stop travel on one or both sides of the border.  I imagine most of the Orien travel would be within nations and military related.   Also, given the sources of inspiration for Eberron, you might look at Casablanca, where a good part of the plot revolved around obtaining travel papers.
#3 CraterLabs Oct 07, 2014 16:21:22	I'd imagine you'd have trouble explaining yourself.   If you have The Explorer's Handbook, the have some good examples of post-war border travel.  I think that a lot of what you see in those books could be used, and perhaps made more tense.  After all, the war may be technically over, but a lot of the nations still don't like or trust each other.