FesthallsĪ variety of establishments all under the category of “festhalls”. The city’s taverns are as varied as its guilds and its gods, and each caters to a slightly different clientele. Even the kobolds beneath the city brew up something called Dog’s Breath Ale, which they prize but no one else can stomach. Dwarven brewmasters vie with the import of southern wines. The city has over a million hard-working souls who depend on the breweries and vintners of Faerun, and everyone has a favorite drink. Waterdeep’s inns, taverns, gambling halls, and alehouses serve as the living rooms and parlors of the community, where public and private life plays out in front of free-flowing taps. Sometimes bards sing to accompany festhall dancers, and in summer those with the taste and the coin for it go hunting or hawking in the forests north of the city. The wealthier citizens also pay for less common entertainment, including dancing bears and musicians accomplished with the lute, recorder, drum, and trumpet.
Street fights on the docks are popular, with the loser dunked into the water.
Most districts have establishments that cater to the common vices-drinking, gambling, whoring, and fighting-though such places abound in the Lower City. Waterdeep never sleeps, both because its adventuring citizenry are nocturnal, and because its tavern keepers are always searching for one more coin.
