I would like to talk discuss #ForgottenRealms with you – mostly the social structures & the economy – is it feudal and are the peasant allowed to leave their shire? Very little of the Realms is what we would recognize as "feudal." Aside from Thay, almost no one has any LEGAL restrictions on their movement outside of martial law moments in wartime. Farmers tend to be "tied to the land" for obvious farming reasons. Cormyr and many Border…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2018
..Kingdoms in the past, and plenty of city-states now, have the feudal element of "noble oath-promises monarch to provide X troops when called upon," but the presence of widespread magic means it's never safe to use real-world history as a guide to how things unfold in the Realms
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2018