Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Million Dollar TTRPG Crowdfunders
Most Anticipated Tabletop RPGs Of The Year
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Slavery, Rape, Madness and War!
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="NoOneofConsequence" data-source="post: 430262" data-attributes="member: 5400"><p><strong>Re: Nuaghty</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Man, if this quote is indicative of your attitude(s) to rape, you should leave it out of your campaign. It appears that you have little to no comprehension of the crime and its impact.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree that fear of slavery (and not just death) adds to a campaign, giving it breadth and subtlety.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This analysis of slave rape in history shows an astonishing lack of thought. Rape of a slave may not have been an everyday occurence in most slave cultures, but to minimise it is unreal. We already have massive evidence that rape occurs, in the majority of cases between individuals who are known to each other. Rape occurs in families and within marriage. Why on earth do you imagine that a slave owner would be disinclined to rape a slave once he "got the urge". Because his wife might find out? In many cultures he wouldn't even have been regarded as violating his marriage vows, a slave not being fully human. Also, the abuse dynamics being what they are, the wife is just as likely to blame the rape victim. Also, the wife might prefer the rapist to rape the slave rather than her, especially if the rapist likes to get violent in sex.</p><p></p><p>As for running away? Life as a serial rape victim vs life as an escaped slave? I doubt terribly many slaves would view escape as the preferred option. Perhaps in 19th century USA where there was an underground railroad and states where escaped slave could live free. In cultures where slaves are primarily war captives, a slave has to choices - be an enslaved foreign national or be a dead foreign national.</p><p></p><p>I could go on but I think I've pretty much covered what I want to say</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NoOneofConsequence, post: 430262, member: 5400"] [b]Re: Nuaghty[/b] Man, if this quote is indicative of your attitude(s) to rape, you should leave it out of your campaign. It appears that you have little to no comprehension of the crime and its impact.:( [B][/B] I agree that fear of slavery (and not just death) adds to a campaign, giving it breadth and subtlety. [B][/B] This analysis of slave rape in history shows an astonishing lack of thought. Rape of a slave may not have been an everyday occurence in most slave cultures, but to minimise it is unreal. We already have massive evidence that rape occurs, in the majority of cases between individuals who are known to each other. Rape occurs in families and within marriage. Why on earth do you imagine that a slave owner would be disinclined to rape a slave once he "got the urge". Because his wife might find out? In many cultures he wouldn't even have been regarded as violating his marriage vows, a slave not being fully human. Also, the abuse dynamics being what they are, the wife is just as likely to blame the rape victim. Also, the wife might prefer the rapist to rape the slave rather than her, especially if the rapist likes to get violent in sex. As for running away? Life as a serial rape victim vs life as an escaped slave? I doubt terribly many slaves would view escape as the preferred option. Perhaps in 19th century USA where there was an underground railroad and states where escaped slave could live free. In cultures where slaves are primarily war captives, a slave has to choices - be an enslaved foreign national or be a dead foreign national. I could go on but I think I've pretty much covered what I want to say [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Slavery, Rape, Madness and War!
Top
