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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8812572" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Given that canonically they gave masked lord status to Omin Dran, a notorious charlatan with a violent streak who should never be trusted with anything, and that their ruling body is anonymous nobles and 1 named and known ruler who answers to them, who is currently an immortal demigod...yeah, it's not great.I've seen people say that it takes a cynical literalism to turn Waterdeep into a bad place to live, but like...from the top down it's just plain rotten. That's part of what makes it fun to play in, to be from, to be in love with like people are in love with New York or London. Corrupt and mysterious government? Hell yeah. Dangerous police force with too much authority that the populace tends to give too much benefit of the doubt to? Awesome! Just don't think too hard about what it'd be like to actually live there. dI have a thread about this we could necro, or I"ll link it for reference and start a new thread!Neverwinter isn't as bad as Waterdeep, IMO, but it's bad. I have a PC who grew up in Waterdeep as an immigrant refugee, and is a revolutionary bent. Her POV on the governments of the Sword Coast is that they might as well not exist, they need to be burned down and the ash and rubble cleared away to build something new, too damn many of them are very dangerous on a personal level, so the revolution is going to need individually powerful people to counter them.In the MMO at least, he engages in clandestine behavior to try to ensure that the heirs to the actual legit throne of Neverwinter are never found, IIRC. He also stole tens of thousands of gold dragon coins from Waterdeep when running it, granted noble status to crime lords, legitimized known criminals because they had done him a solid at some point or he owed them money, etc. So, no matter what the era, Neverwinter doesn't have great rulership. Below is a thread I started a while back about this topic. Later I'll try to start a new thread if no one else has, and move this discussion there.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/any-realms-heads-know-about-the-politics-of-the-sword-coast.684313/[/URL]</blockquote>

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