Waterdeep

He will work, but he's very close to developing hellfire, which is not what I need.

But do you know a Zeminel? I believe he lives in Waterdeep.

Yeah, I've heard the nay.

If you would like to go forward to your friends, I will need some assurances that you are going to stop him from helping my son kill me.

I need to pull it into the ...

Uh, the journey back to Waterdeep, which you guys had, you guys took, like, a nice chartered, uh, carriage, uh, to get here.

Yes, strong-armed him into giving us a good carriage.

Yeah.

Uh, about, a- and you know, it ta- like, you know, a couple days go by, nothing really eventful going on.

Pretty safe, well traveled roads.

Um, and then about halfway through your return trip to Waterdeep, your carriage kinda hits a rough bump in the road, and a fist-sized ruby just falls out of some overhead, uh, hidden overhead compartment, and you can see that it's kind of pulsing and glowing at regular intervals.

[laughs] Nope, Stacy learned her lesson.

Oh, I don't know that system.

I'm, I'm gonna have to learn it." The setting, this is where, you know, if it's a known setting you can just tell people, "Hey, this is gonna be set in Waterdeep in Faerûn." They know exactly where you're talking about, or they don't, and they can let you know that.

Or you can let them know, "Yeah, this is gonna be set in the canon Marvel Universe, so you're gonna be playing your own characters, but people like Spider-Man and Captain America are out there." Um, and then tone.

What type of tone is it that you're going for with this game you want to run? And that's actually a lot more important than I think people realize.

Technically, they can buy like maybe some supplies in Ostacon, but that's a much more exotic, smaller town.

Whereas Neverwinter, it's not as big as Waterdeep, but it's still a pretty good sized town.

So if they want to stock up on potions or any other supplies or things, you know, there's a lot of adventures coming and going from Neverwinter.

So maybe even I can put together like another magic item.

I don't know if I want to let them buy just straight up all the magic items like I did In Waterdeep, I might just let them purchase potions at cost.

But yeah, that probably would be it.

And then we can just get them to...

What I would like to have happen...

That's the bard's wheelhouse.

And I fell into that sort of accidentally, but I feel like that's what Nikistos does in Waterdeep.

It's all about, can I manipulate our way out of even having to fight? Or manipulate our way into having so many friends that...

We've got allies to fight for us, with us.

Even the Folk and Northlanders traded warily with each other despite their rivalries.

The Folk's major outside partners were Alm, Kalimshan, Mintarn, Tethyr, and Waterdeep.

Pirates worked these waters constantly, but the Moonshays offered a safer alternative to the Nilanthir Isles, making Floak Ports a natural stopover between the North and Kalimshan.

Caer Caladryr handled most of the traffic, drawing merchants from across Toril and channeling both exports and imports through their ports.