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Message: <blockquote data-quote="1StrangeFellow" data-source="post: 151461" data-attributes="member: 3954">The lawfulness of Geanavue is highly overstated.  Right in the middle of the city you've got an inn called the Door of Dreams that the city watch basically turns a blind eye toward as long things don't spill out into the rest of the city that was a huge, sprawling reputedly haunted manor.  Now it's a place of decadence, where assassins can find assignments, the lustful can find a whore, adventurers can get duped into working against the Basalt Throne in favor of the wealthier merchant families and you should keep a sharp eye out for a knife at your back (but if you pay the staff well enough, they might just show you an escape route in the twisting rooms and halls and cover your retreat).  In addition, there are references to other brothels in the city that are less high profile where the darkest deals go down.  Several evil cults are trying to gain a foothold in the city.The difference is that like a real city, the evil and chaos aren't out in the open.  They don't always directly involve the 'everyman'.  You have to look for these things.  The city tries to preserve commerce and safety for its citizens, and sometimes has to deal with just confining the lawlessness to certain areas either within the city or without, such as in Loona.As with any Kingdoms of Kalamar resource, you can't just scratch the surface.  You have to look deeper.  It doesn't come out and slap you in the face.  When you do look deeper you'll find a considerable amount of inspiration for your campaigns.I just find it humorous when people say that there's nothing going on in a city where a headless chambermaid stalks the halls of an inn with her head on a platter, cults reserve rooms for infernal ceremonies and nobles wear masks and rent cloaks so they can hire killers anonymously.  This is just a small portion of the things that could be going on in one location in the city.  Nothing for adventurers to do?  Stiflingly lawful?  What, are you only reading the first sentence of every paragraph?</blockquote>

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