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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8809608" data-attributes="member: 18">What do you mean handwaved?People loathe Cormyr because of the taxes. I've seen basically Good-aligned parties get into running battles with the Purple Dragons because of the taxes and the enforcement of various idiot laws in Cormyr. Sheesh I think there's a 1E or early 2E adventure which basically assumes the party will get into a squabble with Cormyr's law-and-order over the taxes and uses a solution to that to motivate the adventures (Azure Bonds even maybe? Maybe not, dunno.)I have no awareness of any taxes in Sharn, and Anaslon and Greyhawk are entire settings so I think it's extremely unfair of you to expect even a super-nerd like me to know what the heck you're talking about there! Certainly I don't recall any situations were you get robbed by powerful strangers to even get into a place. Where there have been fees it's been nominal in my experience - where the fees aren't - like Cormyr, unhappiness for everyone ensues.Taxing every individual a vague and undefined amount which you can be punished for guessing wrong on is absolutely unique to the Radiant Citadel. That's wild stuff man. Wild. It's hostile and tricky. I won't say deceptive or dishonest quite, because it's their culture and it probably makes sense to them, but it's pretty messed-up. You can tell it's undefined from the language used, too, which just makes it extra-bad. They don't just come out and say "For you 550gp", they just say "pay up", and you get it wrong, welp, too bad, you're in trouble.</blockquote>

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