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RodOdom
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USA
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 Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 17:12:12
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Thay? Zhentil Keep? Menzoberranzen? Where do ordinary people have the least freedom in Faerun?
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lokilokust
Seeker
USA
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 17:19:09
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for actual nation, i'd say probably Thay.
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 17:45:39
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| Well, Thay would be an obvious choice; I have little knowledge of the lands of Mulhorand and Unther though. |
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Sian
Senior Scribe
Denmark
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 17:58:35
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| i'll go on a limb and say Khaerbaal in Halruaa ... the city where they train Jordain Viziers |
what happened to the queen? she's much more hysterical than usual
She's a women, it happens once a month |
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nbnmare
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 18:18:26
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Probably Menzoberranzen, or indeed any other Lolth-ruled drow city.
In such a city, you could legally be killed on the street just because someone of higher rank didn't like you. In Thay, you couldn't legally be killed for such a reason... though you could be enslaved. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 18:33:58
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Human nation, or any nation, period?
Yes, Thay is the obvious choice...but for all I know somewhere out there is an even more repressive place to live. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Mazrim_Taim
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 19:41:40
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| I'd vote for Thay, where you never hardly see a non-human who isn't in chains. But Menzo and the other Lolth cities are probably in the running. Now that I think about it, there are a lot of fairly repressive nations/cities in the Realms. |
And if the PCs DO win their ways through all the liches to Larloch, “he” will almost certainly be just another lich (loaded with explosive spells) set up as a decoy, with dozens of hidden liches waiting to pounce on any surviving PCs who ‘celebrate’ after they take Larloch down. As the REAL Larloch watches (magical scrying) from afar. Myself, as DM, I’d be wondering: “Such a glorious game, so many opportunities laid out before your PCs to devote your time to, and THIS fixation is the best you can come up with? Are you SURE you’re adventurers?” -Ed Greenwood
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Korginard
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 20:17:39
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| Actually, Oryndoll or other Illithid cities would probably have the least freedom. Thay and Menzo can't compete with a place that enslaves mentally as well as physically. Even the Illithids themselves are monitored and controled somewhat by thier Elder Brains. |
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Grandmaster Kane
Seeker
64 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 20:24:15
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WalkerNinja
Senior Scribe
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 21:17:34
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| Didn't a Banite legion conquer a town somewhere? Miritar wasn't it? That would be my vote. |
*** A Forgotten Realms Addict since 1990 ***
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Aureus
Learned Scribe
Luxembourg
125 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 22:16:19
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| While the nation of Cromyr is not the most repressive, I don't percieve the residents as very free, they are monitored quite a lot, at least that's the impression I got when I read Volo's Guide to that place |
That is not the weirdest thing that happened to me |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 22:16:43
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Originally posted by Korginard
Actually, Oryndoll or other Illithid cities would probably have the least freedom. Thay and Menzo can't compete with a place that enslaves mentally as well as physically. Even the Illithids themselves are monitored and controled somewhat by thier Elder Brains.
Great point--I don't think it gets much more repressive than having your mind dominated. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
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Mazrim_Taim
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 22:57:29
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| I agree that Illithid cities are on an entirely different level as far as repressiveness goes. Mind Flayers just creep me out in general, evil and nasty things they are. |
And if the PCs DO win their ways through all the liches to Larloch, “he” will almost certainly be just another lich (loaded with explosive spells) set up as a decoy, with dozens of hidden liches waiting to pounce on any surviving PCs who ‘celebrate’ after they take Larloch down. As the REAL Larloch watches (magical scrying) from afar. Myself, as DM, I’d be wondering: “Such a glorious game, so many opportunities laid out before your PCs to devote your time to, and THIS fixation is the best you can come up with? Are you SURE you’re adventurers?” -Ed Greenwood
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 23:04:48
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Then again, there are Aboleth cites (which we know less about) where they dominate your mind AND begin transforming you into an alien abomination as well . . .
I'm thinking most aberration cities would be off the vacation list . . . |
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Victor_ograygor
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
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RodOdom
Senior Scribe
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 23:12:15
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| Illithid and Aboleth cities would indeed "win" hands down. I didn't even think of that. |
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RodOdom
Senior Scribe
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 23:13:07
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| I guess it would be more interesting to ask which non-Underdark cities are the most repressive. |
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nbnmare
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 23:30:54
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| Calimshan is certainly a very oppressive city for ordinary working people, and if you decide to leave even the very environment will work against you. |
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Lord Nemes
Seeker
Canada
58 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 23:46:17
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| You could add Hilsfar if you're not Human... |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 21 Feb 2007 : 02:37:18
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| I would go with Thay also |
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 21 Feb 2007 : 02:41:37
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| a vote for Thay here. |
When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls, whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight. |
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boddynock
Learned Scribe
Belgium
258 Posts |
Posted - 21 Feb 2007 : 08:04:22
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In the boxed set "Ruins of zhentil keep" there was an adventure of a small village called snowmantle. The villagers were oppressed by the Zhents and they worked as slaves there. So I would take this town as my option 'cause NOBODY is free there.
In the end of this adventure (if the players are succesful) it's freed from the oppression of the Zhents, but a great cost. |
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The most repressive nation or city in Faerun
