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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • We are talking about the Roman era here, mate. The Romans conquered outside societies and enslaved them. Slavery in this context meant that these “foreigners” could earn Roman citizenship. There were some slaves that held higher esteem than some free citizens in the Roman Empire, most notably doctors.

    Slavery was not just whipping people to make them plow the land. It was a very complicated socioeconomical construct and it was very much a “normal” thing. In the late Roman era, slavery grew rampant (because it was profitable) and often children of poor, free citizens were kidnapped into slavery. But in the Roman high tides, around the time of Jezus, it was, for lack if a better word, a rather sophisticated process.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome












  • First time (and only time) I played, one of my group was determined to go to the hoard of monsters outside. The DM kept asking if he really wanted to do so, and he constantly said yes. Which prompted the DM to roll his little dice and make a note. That happensed about five turns, he even survived one or two turns in the middle of the hoard.

    The DM kept hinting that the hoard was just a hoard and surely meant death. He kept pushing him toward the other side (I think it was a castle), but my friend was very stubborn.

    It wasn’t a very long game, but it was fun. We should do that again some time.