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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 5415249" data-attributes="member: 99">Had another awesome sounding board session with my wife last night.  She is a fantastic player (but sitting out this campaign) and she comes up with awesome ideas for games too.  In fact she's the one who came up with the whole Albino thing that is the catalyst for the civil war.Anyway, my Velaedin Empire has some superficial resemblance to the Roman empire in a few respects (architecture is not among them).  One idea that I think might be sort of cool is for there to be gladiatorial arenas in some areas.There is no human slavery in the Empire due to the manner in which it was established.  But the "Dark Races" (Orcs, Goblins, etc.) that were conquered and continue to come into conflict around the edges of civilization are considered sub-human and I can see the sort of decadent society I'm envisioning having them fight each other as the bloodsport of choice in some corners of the Empire.I could even do the Sparticus thing and have an orcish slave uprising happen that is taking advantage of the chaos of civil war to break loose.  More moral ambiguity for the win!This particular concept isn't really all that Gothic.  But I do think it would be cool to have a small army of escaped orcish gladiators battling their way across the Empire trying to escape TO the Darkness.  That'd stir things up a bit more.</blockquote>