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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8812427" data-attributes="member: 18">Well, we're disallowed from arguing with this, but I would say, whatever name exactly you want to call it, Waterdeep is, according to FR lore, a deeply corrupt city ruled by a backslapping and backstabbing cabal of dodgy individuals which has a brutal and oppressive government, and some pretty bizarre and unexpected laws, which had extreme punishments attached to them and are unlikely to impress most players (or PCs!) as forms of "justice".So it's always pretty bizarre to see most writing which mentions it treat it as some kind of cool cosmopolitan place where awesome dudes hang out and honest trade gets done, without ever mentioning the government or laws, or worse, acting like because the people in charge of Waterdeep as "badasses", they're "cool" too, rather than maximum yikes, which is what they actually are.</blockquote>