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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8812543" data-attributes="member: 18">Yes and I never got that until I really looked at it! Because it's talked about so much more positively than Lankhmar, and it's not "broke down" like most Lankhmars!Good question! Neverwinter I don't remember anything shocking about it apart from Ed Greenwood making really unnecessarily and repeatedly clear that the people ruling it are (like many FR people according to Ed) massive swingers and have sex parties all the damn time. But someone else may remember more. I think it's also implied that like, if you piss off the ruler or her BF you'll get straight-murdered despite them supposedly being Good-aligned too. So that last bit ain't great.Just as like a little sampler of weird-as-hell Waterdeep, if a vendor at the market gets arrested, by law, some of the arresting guards stay and try to run his stall, to and I quote "the best of their ability" (oh god!) and are "not responsible for any losses" (oh no!), which I think is probably a LOT worse, from the vendor's perspective, than just shutting down the stall. Also the guards are the kind of guards who absolutely routinely carry "black bag"-type blinder-hoods for prisoners, like you'd normally only see when someone is being dragged to a "black site" by special forces. They even have special harnesses to attach to the hoods (wait are we getting back into Ed's kinks territory?) so they can pull people around.On the flip side, if they murder you, and later decide you were innocent, they will resurrect you, at the city's cost. However, I don't think it's unfair to say this presents a huge financial incentive to the City of Waterdeep to NOT find you innocent.There's so much more.</blockquote>

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