Ah! a man of culture, perhaps you can help me with a conundrum then. my home brew campaign features a prominent Adventuring academy, with a remote office located in a House in Waterdeep in the trade ward. I had the address listed as 46 Selduth street, does that look accurate? House numbers in Waterdeep is definitely a question for @TheEdVerse. How does the house numbering system work, Ed? #waterdeep
— RPG Match – connecting TTRPG players (@RpgMatch) October 3, 2021
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It doesn’t. ;}
Numerical street addresses are still being introduced, and very messily.
The system was a Lord Neverember innovation.
Before he became Open Lord, buildings in Waterdeep had “roll numbers” in the Palace tax records… 2)
…and floorplan registry, but only the owners/taxpayers and the Palace knew them. What citizens knew was how to describe the location of where they lived. See my answer of April 25/20 about a specific building, which is…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2021
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…“eastfront Irimmar’s Walk, two doors north of Selduth Street, Trades Ward.” Everything is ‘so many doors’ from a streetmoot (intersection), temple, pump, civic building, or city gate. And “eastfront” in this example means… 4)
…means fronting on the east side of the street.
To echo what I said in an earlier reply, the Realms isn’t a copy of our real world. Some things developed in different ways there, and are done differently, in the Realms.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2021