@TheEdVerse dearest Sage, what can be said for the Field Ward of Waterdeep in the current era? The adventure I'm writing currently is set there, and I've found it to be nothing less than a clean yet gritty slate for street level intrigue, danger and an examination of low-living.

Aug 22, 2018 · 5:24 PM UTC

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...And, yes, is very much a clean slate for the game designer and writer, so have fun! ;}
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I plan to honor this wealth of information you have just bestowed on me with in full, Sage. I hope to share the manuscript with you soon, if only for your amusement. Interesting note, I had initially planned to stage this endeavor in your dearest Cormyr. Thank you endlessly. Z
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...in Field Ward comes from rooftop catch-cisterns or has to be bought from carts, so it's not a place where bathing is popular, either. It DOES have many taverns and "easy" (no formal registrations or taxes collected) mini-inns (a few upstairs rooms or beds for rent) and clubs..
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Dubious maps? Poisons? Stolen goods? Weapons? You can get such everywhere in Waterdeep, but if you want them cheap and to buy them more or less out in the open, this is the place. If you want to deal with "respectable" citizens or guilds, they shun Field Ward. And most water...
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...and outlaws and half-orcs and the truly ugly and others who might be outcasts or unwelcome (kenku, humans with scaly skin) are found in great numbers here than elsewhere in the Deep, and everywhere one walks is mud, mud, and more noisome mud. Want to buy counterfeit docs?...
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...many portable carts vendors sell from) because the one thing that will bring the authorities out in force is anyone blocking the streets (traffic must flow freely into and out of the city, between the various gates in the inner and outer north walls of the city). Refugees...
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...and patched, and in either case sloppily constructed (many buildings have props and buttresses holding them up by transferring force to the ground or nearby buildings). Alleys are many, wide streets are few, but stalls and encroachments are almost unknown (instead, there are..
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...and ill-repaired because firefighting is all volunteer (as in, if your place catches light, you and your neighbors are going to be ALL the firefighting). So brick, salvaged stone, and so on construction is commonplace, with wooden upper storeys that are either new or charred..
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...darned near lawless. Also adding to the stink: slaughterhouses, tanneries, and many other "stinky" industries are situated in Field Ward, now, because pressure from citizens got them pushed out of other locations in the city. Most buildings are ramshackle, fire-scarred,...
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First off, it's not an official ward of the city, so...no sewers (hence: lots of excrement in the streets, with accompanying stink) and no regular Watch patrols (they go in, in force = at least double patrol strength, when they have to go "get" someone or somebody), so...
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