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Yup, fine charge what you need for roads or other infrastructure. That's a tiny amount and in most settings it's handwaved with a 'gate fee' of @ a copper-silver for a pedestrian and a bit more per wagon. And a sword tax on armed adventurers or the like that most PCs will easily cough...

Not talking about murder. Talking about taxes. Do you pay extra taxes? Do you know anybody that does? Do you like paying taxes? Let alone know someone that wouldn't cheat (or not take every deduction they could) if there were no direct personal consequences for doing so? So travelling...

Most D&D settings are vaguely medieval in structure. Well known, identifiable by most players, with certain expectations. Relatable in other words. Some settings go in different directions but they are at least trying to make an interesting place to have an adventure not the waiting room for...

:rolleyes: Oh, so you're saying that the only way the Citadel works is because of magic mind control? Maybe it isn't a utopia then. But it'd be more interesting than what is presented at least. My point is there are tons of lost opportunities for adventure seeds for a commercial product and...

I'm starting to think you're just being obtuse at this point. No, I find Radiant Citadel laughable because what they establish as a society doesn't feel remotely realistic or living (even less so than Plato's construct society in the Republic). It's a trade nexus (and utterly dependent on trade...

Oh it has nothing to do with politics and more with the early season's boring to nearly unrelatable characterizations of some aspects of Fed society. Rodenberry didn't allow for interpersonal conflict or drama on the Enterprise (it was always external)...it's one of the primary reasons those...

Thinking about it, I think what I found the most amusing about the Citadel is that it's like future LA from Demolition Man (only a bit more creepy & extreme) and the moment the PCs arrive they'd automatically become some of the worst (or most criminal people) in it :) . A good setting...

I can probably adapt most of the adventures in some way to my campaign, but honestly I couldn't stop laughing reading the section of the Radiant Citadel itself and thinking about how it would play when the rubber meets the road when you throw a bunch of PCs into the mix (if presented 'as is')...

My guess would be that they had no real effect on the game and it saved a few paragraphs for other magic items that did. I've never seen a PC die naturally of old age (unnaturally yes in 2e Return to the Tomb of Horrors) and it seems 'aging attacks' (like a ghost's) have been removed in 3e.