The sale of creatures classed as beasts (i.e. animals not typically reared for livestock purchases) is legal within the city of Waterdeep. The trade in certain creatures is heavily monitored, with some being subject to licensing requirements and a few being outright banned within the bounds of the city.
Controlled creatures are typically those which produce venomous agents (eg. scorpions, certain snakes), creatures whose abilities pose a threat to civic infrastructure (eg. giant fire beetles), those whose size poses an innate danger to citizens (eg. giant frogs and toads, which have been known to swallow smaller races whole), and those classed as public nuisances (flying monkeys).
Aquatic creatures, if kept within the limits of the Deepwater Harbor, fall under the jurisdiction of T'quession. If improperly contained, their ownership is forfeit.
| † — Legal sale is banned. | |||
| Item | Price | Item | Price |
| Frog or rat |
1 cp |
Lizard or turtle | 5 cp |
| Bat or octopus | 1 sp |
Raven or scorpion* | 5 sp |
| Owl or weasel | 1 gp | Hyena, jackal, or poisonous snake* |
2 gp |
| Baboon, giant crab, giant rat, or deer | 3 gp |
Badger, or giant fire beetle* |
4 gp |
| All listed creatures from this point onward require specialized licenses for sale and acquisition. | |||
| Ape, giant frog, vulture, or wolf | 5 gp | Constrictor snake, elk, giant centipede, giant weasel, or giant wolf spider | 10 gp |
| Crocodile | 12 gp | Giant badger, giant bat, or giant spider |
15 gp |
| Black bear or giant wasp | 20 gp | Giant poisonous snake | 25 gp |
| Brown bear | 35 gp | Giant hyena, giant toad, or panther |
50 gp |
| Dire wolf, giant eagle, giant octopus, giant owl, giant vulture, lion, reef shark, or tiger | 75 gp | Giant constrictor snake, flying monkey, or giant elk |
100 gp |
| Hunter shark, polar bear, or saber-toothed tiger† | 200 gp |
Giant scorpion, killer whale†, or rhinoceros† | 250 gp |
| Giant ape, giant crocodile, giant shark, or mammoth† | 500 gp | Hulking crab† | 800 gp |