11-10-2010, 02:14 PM
Players and being slavers! You're more than likely an independant company. Moguls see you as competition. Selling your slavei n the middle of the city (assuming slaveryi s legal in said city... if not you're screwed for even thinknig of trying it) is more than a way to make enemies in all the wrong places. The do-gooders will hate you. The slaves will hate you. The opposition will hate you. Other slavers sill see you as competition. Essentially... not a good idea unless you're paying some hefty tribute to an established trade. This means work in closed doors, away from the public. Make it invitational only, or not as well known, or just sell slaves outside cities. Now, if you do persue this path, make it so you've means to re-capture freed slaves. If they do buy them and release them... so be it, you still got paid. Take a tip from our ancients, drug the slaves or get them very drunk during the sale so if they are set free, you can easily recapture and sell them off again. This of course should require OOC premission IMO. Also, there is a sort of racial biasness as to what you'd expect a slave to do. I cover that mainly in the second paragraph.
A possibility I'd like to see is the abiltiy to sell non-players to non-players/players via GMs or something. I don't mean rolling up into Northshire Abbey and capturing Millie Osworth or something silly like that. I mean capturing another race of slaves to add diversity... like say a gnoll and selling it to either nameless NPCs, named, or players, etc. Differant races will probably have their expectations after all. Ogres are strong and could make good guards or gladiators. Gnolls are savage and kinda cunning, so could be sold as a hunter, or guard, or just manual worker. A kobald would probably be very cheap, but they are actually very strong when cornered, so could be a gladiator if you train the beast to home in that primal rage... or just keep it as a slave for comedic amusement (but that'd imply you're crazy rich). But this'd foster a more healthy environment of slave-trade. Mixing these with players especially. Though this would involve some GM approval before the event occured or something. Though, also look at playable races for their strengths and weaknesses too. I doubt you'd buy a forsaken to take care of your children. Adjust priaces accordingly. What'd you sell the forsaken for? This goes for any race, really. Each race ahs their strengths and weaknesses, and working that will surely change the cost more than you'd imagine. I highly doubt anyone'd buy a Quilboar for 20-40 gold unless it was some sort of champion going towards glaiatoral combat. I do not begin to imagine domestic slaves going for 40+ gold unless for very good reasons, etc. This goes for player races too. For a domesticd slave, would the average person rather take a mighty ORcish warrior, who holds honor and pride... or a middleclass blood elf laborer? Would a high class Blood Elf be a great slave in general? Probably not. Night Elves are also probably hard to maintain, but if you can find the right field and make the price seem worth it, then you certainly have a price.
A possibility I'd like to see is the abiltiy to sell non-players to non-players/players via GMs or something. I don't mean rolling up into Northshire Abbey and capturing Millie Osworth or something silly like that. I mean capturing another race of slaves to add diversity... like say a gnoll and selling it to either nameless NPCs, named, or players, etc. Differant races will probably have their expectations after all. Ogres are strong and could make good guards or gladiators. Gnolls are savage and kinda cunning, so could be sold as a hunter, or guard, or just manual worker. A kobald would probably be very cheap, but they are actually very strong when cornered, so could be a gladiator if you train the beast to home in that primal rage... or just keep it as a slave for comedic amusement (but that'd imply you're crazy rich). But this'd foster a more healthy environment of slave-trade. Mixing these with players especially. Though this would involve some GM approval before the event occured or something. Though, also look at playable races for their strengths and weaknesses too. I doubt you'd buy a forsaken to take care of your children. Adjust priaces accordingly. What'd you sell the forsaken for? This goes for any race, really. Each race ahs their strengths and weaknesses, and working that will surely change the cost more than you'd imagine. I highly doubt anyone'd buy a Quilboar for 20-40 gold unless it was some sort of champion going towards glaiatoral combat. I do not begin to imagine domestic slaves going for 40+ gold unless for very good reasons, etc. This goes for player races too. For a domesticd slave, would the average person rather take a mighty ORcish warrior, who holds honor and pride... or a middleclass blood elf laborer? Would a high class Blood Elf be a great slave in general? Probably not. Night Elves are also probably hard to maintain, but if you can find the right field and make the price seem worth it, then you certainly have a price.
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