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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1915586" data-attributes="member: 7240">Jack, thanks for wandering into the other thread. Today I was starting to wonder if I was on glue or something before you turned up.Back to the topic at hand: of course, as you may have noticed, I do not use alignment in all its transcultural transhistorical glory; in my games, alignment is moored to society. As a result, slavery is often a morally neutral thing. However, the slavery in my worlds is never modeled on the antebellum chattel slavery of the American South. Models of slavery I find more interesting and worthwhile are the Roman system and its successors, in which slaves have rights, can file suit, can purchase manumission, etc. Slavery in these systems was much more sustainable than our common images of slavery from American history and did confer some genuine social advantages. And there were a lot more different levels and types of slaves in the Spanish, Portuguese, Roman and Carolingian systems (an interesting hybrid of Germanic and Latin slavery). I've also thought of doing a medieval collectivist slavic serfdom with its internal self-government structures but have not got around to it.</blockquote>