Since the legalization of bounty hunting in Waterdeep with the Tarnsmoke Proclamation (Elminster’s Forgotten Realms 106), would there be a bounty hunting guild to supplement the ones referenced in Dragon Heist? Or too unregulatable for a guild? 1) The existing guilds don't want bounty hunters to have a guild, and have been successfully preventing it for some time. If you as DM want bounty hunters to succeed, the power plays (of various powerful Deep families and factions) to try to control/influence the new guild…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 13, 2018
2) …would make a fascinating campaign. It's hard to found a new guild in Waterdeep, just as it's hard to ennoble a new family, because it upsets the status quo, and anyone who likes the status quo resists changes to it.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 13, 2018