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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AngelTears" data-source="post: 427030" data-attributes="member: 8181">Here are some things that have been used in history. I don't think many DM's woul dbe willing to use them in agme though.Rape as a social tool. During the early part of the Roman Empire, the Romans lacked enough women to survive, so they held a large feast to the surrounding tribes, at the appointed time they grabbed all the women they could retreated to their fort. Rape has also been used to subjugate warring ethnic groups, usually where the men were forced to watch.There was usually with large armies a troop that followed them in ths were enslaved or captured women who were used as prostitutes.Rape also used to be used by various groups as a way on punishing a woman's infedelity. It was also used during the middle-ages as a way of passing out sentence (not dependent on sex either).  Slaves, prisoners, and captured soldiers were used for menial labour (creating fortresses, palaces, and bridges), for mining. Children to old men. They were also used to soak up attacks from opposing armies. They were fed very little and most died of even simple injuries for lack of anykind of medical care.Slaves were also used to train troops, making soldiers get used to the carnage of war.In a fantasy setting I ould see the use of thousands of slaves as sacrifices for ceremonies.War involving the razing of the entire country side (armies need food, and the only way on getting it was taking it from the peasants). Sowing salt into the lands of the enemy, when retreating. Of using disease as a weapon (throwing diseased and dead people or livestock by catapult into a besieged city).I think madness sort of gets defined there as well without having to drag in Galigula, Alexander the Great (who married his sister), or the Mongol Horde (who succeede in leveling Baghdad, estimated to be only having a few million people living there at the time).</blockquote>

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