dont remember where i saw it, a rule about fixing buildings in waterdeep was not allowed or something? or old info? #dndwas like, some law or something in the deep about owning a building or business or something i read somewhere, unsure

— PastorGall (@PastorGall) September 22, 2017

Certain wards have from time to time been under Lord's decrees to not RAZE buildings (due to a trick of buying several adjacent structures..

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2017

…and knocking them all down to build something towering and palatial that in some cases blocked alleys and neighbours' accesses, using…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2017

the false pretext "oh, they were unsafe"). Like many cities, hard daily experience has led the Deep to have laws about what you can do to…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2017

…existing buildings, yours and those belonging to others, and when and where you can build new ones (back in Ahghairon's time, a rich…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2017

…Calishite came to town with a small army of bodyguards and tried to build a warehouse/TOLL BOOTH! across the Way of the Dragon!). As…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2017

…Madeiron Sunderstone once remarked, "There's always SOMEone." (Being an utter git.) ;} So, rules to curb utter gitdom…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2017

They have very much survived. One will be the setting for much of this year's Mirt tale (and all of the Mirt adventure). DM's Guild, Nov.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2017

@TheEdVerse Within Toril, what is the legality of looting the dead? Recently dead (ie, a bandit) and long-dead (grave goods from a tomb)?

— Max Ximenez (@maxximenez) September 8, 2017

Illegal in law-and-order jurisdictions, always illegal for royalty&nobility. For the 2 examples you cite, most folk would look the other wayTo clarify: it's legal to loot a bandit who attacked you in the forest, but not a mugger who attacks you in a city?

— Max Ximenez (@maxximenez) September 9, 2017

Often, yes. In a city, the Watch steps in. THEY want to see what's in his pocketses. If you can convince them that THIS STUFF is yours, …

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 9, 2017

…just snatched, you may get it back on the spot. That's the price of civilization. Needless to say, a lot of bodies get looted BEFORE…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 9, 2017

…anyone cries for the Watch. ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 9, 2017

how common are inter-humanoid species relationships in the realms? Do they tend to get looked down upon?Commoner than most folk in the Realms notice, or believe. As high as 20 percent in some places. How they're viewed varies widely, with the..

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…viewers. More rural = more accepting of the status quo, whatever it is (usually little mixing, except humans/elves in forest areas), …

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

but in cities, more tolerant ("not my business, so long as their coins are good and they offer me no violence"). In some city-states, the…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

rulers/ruling class "set the tone" (and the general populace usually accepts rather than being at odds). Rural homesteaders, prospectors,..

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

foresters, miners, explorers, and adventurers are most tolerant of all ("we all forge our own roads, and judge not the roads of others"). ..

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

These are generalizations, and may not hold true in any specific case. But the Realms is not our real world: humans in the Realms are used..

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

..to truly mixed-race society. Which doesn't mean there aren't racial mistrusts (few trust orcs, and no one sane trusts a drow or illithid).

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

can you describe what Arabel looks like from the street on a typical day? What do the buildings and people look like?Cobbled streets (overlaid by tiny mud and dung patches here and there), all wide enough for 2 large wagons to comfortably pass and still…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…leave room for foot traffic. Buildings three or four floors high (with cellars, too), and steeply-pitched shingle or shake or slate …

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…roofs (almost no tiled roofs due to winds and severe winter cold), those roofs being steeply-pitched ("highpoint") to shed snow; many…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…chimneys and dormers. Half-timbered ("Tudor") upper floors that jut out over streets, lower floors of fitted fieldstone and/or brick. …

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

Most buildings battered/weathered, but good and solid (rebuilt often due to chimney fires, high storm winds, winter "claw"). Many warehouses

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…and wagons; clearly a caravan/trading city, wherever your eye falls. Many horse troughs and pumps (freeze during winter, when cellar…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…pumps that don't are used exclusively), but kept filled in other months in case of raids out of the Stonelands, so city never runs short

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…of untainted water (Crown law about this). Other laws: streets may not be blocked except by Purple Dragons and Town Watch (i.e. be …

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…careful when parking wagons). People: wide ethnic mix of humans (drow, "goblinkin," and half-orcs not welcome), dwarves. A passing…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…scattering of gnomes, halflings, and elves. Much transient (caravan and peddler/wayfaring merchant) traffic. Covert Crown spies keep…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

..watch for Cormyr over who arrives and leaves (to guard against rebellion, not just invasion, though this is more historical holdover…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…than sharp concern, these days). Rainwater shed from roofs goes down wide pipes into barrels and cellar-cisterns. Youth with slings…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…keep pigeons and the like rare sights within the city walls. Camping paddocks for caravans outside city walls, policed by Purple Dragons

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

(who provide firewood, and forbid the cutting of brush for some distance around Arabel, except for the brush clearing they themselves do, ..

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

…to make sure any potential besiegers lack cover).
Think that covers the basics. Just ask if you'd like more.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

A pleasure!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 18, 2017

dear sage, do you know of any wandering bladesinger masters in the Realms my elf may apprentice to? Do they have any quirks?I know of at least a dozen. Most are loners, but a few (Laethra Longtresses comes to mind) are gregarious and might take on an apprentice. +

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 21, 2017

Laethra's quirks include a love of swimming down raging whitewater rivers, and an itch to climb high spires and roofs. She has caches…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 21, 2017

…and tiny hidehold refuges in ruins all over the Sword Coast and Moonsea Norths. Doth Laethra sound suitable? ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 21, 2017

Hi Ed, nice to e-meet you! How much would someone need to pay for a document forgery in Baldur’s Gate? Asking for a friend.Depends on the document, and how needy/urgent they seem. 100 gp base level for deed or contract, but some go down to 50 for poor requestors

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 18, 2017

Thanks! It amazes me. Sorry for this type of question, but do you really have this value in your head? Or is there some thinking involved?There's always thinking involved, but sometimes (as this time) it's remembering what we (Jeff Grubb of TSR, back in the day, and me) decided

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 18, 2017

You sir are an institution! Thanks for your wisdom 🙏…price is quickly going to shoot up to 10,000 gp or so. Even more if I think you're desperate. Less, of course, if I owe you for something

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 19, 2017

I was unprepared for this question yesterday. I came up with 200. Regardless the value, players considered expensive, which was the goal :-)Good! Yes, if the players think it's expensive, that's good. Otherwise, everyone in society would forge first, earn legit documents second!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 19, 2017

And if they went for it, the forged documents wouldn’t pass a more attentive check (no special ink, lower quality paper…) and get troubles…forgeries much harder to pull off.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 19, 2017

do you update any of your older books? or is everything pretty much set in stone? looking at herb descriptions and such :PTSR (now Wotc) own the copyrights; updating would be up to them. (And herbs really don't change that much in five decades. ;} )

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 5, 2017

@TheEdVerse this site, showing info from dragon magazine and some herbs, are those from FR? or they from another setting? tracking the herbz

— PastorGall ♠♫♪ (@PastorGall) August 5, 2017

https://t.co/3va8c0Ha0N

— PastorGall ♠♫♪ (@PastorGall) August 5, 2017

If you mean the Arcane Botanica article, no, that's not canon, for the Realms or D&D. Not saying it's not good, mind you; use what you like!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 5, 2017