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Message: <blockquote data-quote="acorania" data-source="post: 431044" data-attributes="member: 8417">I have had large skirmishes (no large scale wars, though I would love to get to that point), rape, and torture in my games.  not to excess (in my opinion at least), and not in graphic detail, but they are there.  They add realism.As for slavery I have only once had the PCs taken captive and put to work.  I was running the Northern Journey campaign (excellent stuff, look it up if you haven't seen it) and all the PCs with human blood were taken captive and put to work milling for an ogre mage.As you would guess the point was to play the heroic rescue of the comrades imprisoned.  So, from the accounts of my players, I did a good job of giving the players imprisoned hope of escape, kept them making plans for escape that never quite worked and the other players eventually assaulted and freed their friends.After the session I got a lot more feedback than normal from my players.  The non-humans left to rescue their comrades said it was one of the best sessions they had ever played.  Most of the other players, however, found it frusterating though an interesting story.To me, that means the episode in my game was not a success. The point of the game is to have fun, and not all of the players did.  That misses the point and means that I won't ever run a scenerio like that again.  In fact, in general I have found it a bad idea to split the group intentionaly and make them work on getting back together.  Maybe other DMs are better at this, or maybe other players take it better, but I have learned that in my games it something best avoided (but I don't tell my players that so they work at avoiding it).Sean Mahoneyacorania</blockquote>

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