Talk:Loudwater

Reference irregularity
The irregularity is listed as being 4000 population in The Savage Frontier but over 8000 in (I'm assuming here, because there is no source in the template) the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition. Given that the former is a 1st edition book and therefore set 15-20 years earlier than the latter, I would say it's reasonable to assume the population has risen in that time. Fw190a8 12:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * FRCS page 169 gives 8,137. Zerak talk 18:07, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Volo's Guide to the North lists the poulation at 4000
 * The North (Guide to the Saveage Frontier) lists the population at 4000 in 1370DR
 * So from 1358DR to 1370DR the population stayed stable (around 4000) and then in 4 years doubled in size????
 * My theory is that the FRCS lists both the town and surrounding area in it's population figures (I think this may have been done due the gp limit of settlments in D&D 3.x) There are other examples, Waterdeep or Longsaddle are the best, where in the older source books you see populations listed as being the city and then the surrounds then in FRCS you see a single figure which is the sum of the two. eg Longsaddle (city pop = 130 in all sourcebooks, but does not include the ~1000 people in the near area)
 * Hurtzbad 23:23, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

After the Spellplague
I think Loudwater moved and changed. Loudwater in 4th edition is located on River Greyflow (rather than Delimbiyr River), the stone bridge doen't exist, the map shows a new frontier town that grew up around a tower erected about 200 yrs ago (from 1475 DR) rather than a town which has existed for over 1300 yrs. The population is mainly human and dwalves, half-elves are rare. nothing from the original Loudwater seems to exist. Hurtzbad 21:58, 31 August 2008 (UTC)