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Ok Operation Kill Hippie has been submited.

I don't normally encourage the use of drugs and alcohol but you might to keep something handy for this one.

Small chance I can actually pull things together tonight. Figures the one week I actually have something to do, life gets in the way.

Ok I'd better stop and explain myself before I go for lunch.

A couple of thoughts here. Race in a game is always going to be a touchy issue. A game creator would be wise to avoid the whole thing altogether but wisdom and internet at rarely involved in the same time.

Successful slave systems can only work if it is extremely difficult for slaves to escape and the slavery has the direct support or at least willing ignorance of the state or ruler. The best sources of slaves sadly are foreigners of a different ethnic group that can be easily identified from the public at large and have no easy route of escape.

The best known (hell the only widely known example) of this were the African slaves brought to the new world.
Cliches are useful to game makers as it can save a lot of effort in explaining story and background. of course cliches are also lazy and laziness is a bad thing.

The sole game I have part of a download up for (Calesian Dreams) deals at least indirectly with slavery and I had an earlier game were the plot had the party leading a slave revolt (started more or less by accident) so you'd better believe that I've put at least some thought into the issue.

stupid double post...

Okay I'm in. I'm off Monday so I should be able to get a huge chunk of something done.