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Daily chapbooks, also known as a dailies, were short printed document which usually contained tabloid-style news or political rants. They were common in Amn.[1]

Structure[]

Dailies usually all followed the same structure:[1]

  • The headline news, called high clack
  • Some opinion columns, called screeds
  • The altara, publishing sermons and decrets from local temples
  • Some serialized fiction works, usually an epic saga, a farce, and a romantic story featuring feuding families
  • A page of word puzzles, called thoughtfuls
  • A humorous page of spicy riddles and jests

Notable broadsheets[]

The following were popular Amnian broadsheets:[1]

  • Andrelm's daily

Appendix[]

See Also[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ed Greenwood (October 2012). “Eye on the Realms: The Awakener of Golems”. In Steve Winter ed. Dragon #416 (Wizards of the Coast), p. 31.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Eric L. Boyd (June 2005). City of Splendors: Waterdeep. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 14. ISBN 0-7869-3693-2.
  3. Ed Greenwood, The Hooded One (2010-07-19). Questions for Ed Greenwood (2010): The Hunting Horn. Candlekeep Forum. Archived from the original on Feb 19, 2023.
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