Do Your Characters Engage in Slavery?
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the_mighty_agrippa
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as a player, i'm big into heroic fantasy, so my characters don't tolerate slavery, which is an evil act, regardless of how you mince words about it.
as a dm, slavery is pretty much rampant in some areas of my homebrew world.
i have played characters in the past from slave-owning soceities; some of those had slaves as part of the family holdings. however, outright ownership was not something i wanted to play in game. hell, one of them was a mulan paladin.
it's a personal preference for me but i think you should do whatever makes the game enjoyable.
as a dm, slavery is pretty much rampant in some areas of my homebrew world.
i have played characters in the past from slave-owning soceities; some of those had slaves as part of the family holdings. however, outright ownership was not something i wanted to play in game. hell, one of them was a mulan paladin.
it's a personal preference for me but i think you should do whatever makes the game enjoyable.
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Sejs
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Depends on the campaign, really. In the current game I'm in, slavery is the common punishment for defaulting on a large debt. Incur a debt, then don't pay it off, then taken in for judgement - if your assets, in liquidated, would be insufficient to repay your creditor you are given to him as a slave where he can have you work to repay what you owe, sell you off to recoup his loss, etc. Prisoners of war left unrecovered by their home country (or who arn't willing to return for whatever reason) also usually end up on the auction block.
However, the difference is that in most countries in this game that allow slavery (all but one, really), the owner is required to maintain his slaves at a certain minimum standard of living. Excessive cruelty to slaves is also illegal, but the slaves themselves -cannot- argue it before a magistrate. Someone else has to do it for them. If the owner is then found guilty, the slave is freed and given a stipend out of the former owners assets.
Rounding up just random people and pressing them into service is also illegal, but some people just don't ask where their slaves come from as long as they can work. If a slave owner doesn't have paperwork for a slave and it's brought before the authorities, the slave is freed and a small monetary fine is assessed against the former owner.
So not -all- slavery is evil... just some aspects of it.
However, the difference is that in most countries in this game that allow slavery (all but one, really), the owner is required to maintain his slaves at a certain minimum standard of living. Excessive cruelty to slaves is also illegal, but the slaves themselves -cannot- argue it before a magistrate. Someone else has to do it for them. If the owner is then found guilty, the slave is freed and given a stipend out of the former owners assets.
Rounding up just random people and pressing them into service is also illegal, but some people just don't ask where their slaves come from as long as they can work. If a slave owner doesn't have paperwork for a slave and it's brought before the authorities, the slave is freed and a small monetary fine is assessed against the former owner.
So not -all- slavery is evil... just some aspects of it.
JChung2003
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No and never going to do it. I play D&D, not FATAL.
Aust Diamondew
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Slavery...
Slavery is a part of my campaign world (I like to steal stuff from ancient cultures and slavery was a big thing back then, you lose a war you become a slave
). Some of the PCs have owned slaves at one time or another (one of them has become a King and there fore owns numerous slaves, before that he was a slave, a gladiator) slavery is just part of society. The only people who don't do it in my world are the elves.
Slavery is a part of my campaign world (I like to steal stuff from ancient cultures and slavery was a big thing back then, you lose a war you become a slave
). Some of the PCs have owned slaves at one time or another (one of them has become a King and there fore owns numerous slaves, before that he was a slave, a gladiator) slavery is just part of society. The only people who don't do it in my world are the elves.
Wippit Guud
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Just finishing up a character to play in an ancient egyptian setting, so having a slave would be quite common, I could see my character owning one.
Viktyr Gehrig
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Only my evil characters, and not even all of them. My big scary epic Troll hates slavery and will kill and eat anyone he catches practicing it.
A couple of my old characters did.
A couple of my old characters did.
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