What character would you make for a game set in the Roman Republic?
Why is Rome always so fitting to influence almost any fantasy setting?
>>46411666
>>46411666
Because rome is the precursor to modern western states.
You chose a shitty picture though.
Character choice would depend if there was magic n shit.
Scribe-Slave or legion-veteran.
>tfw no noir crime procedural set in ancient rome
>>46411686
>Natural weapons
This character is basically a monk anyway, she has no idea how to protect herself with armour and shields.
>>46411666
Butcher/Surgeon depending on the circumstance/ Time of the Day
>>46411716
Roman "police-men" clobbered people to death rather often when they resisted.
Pretty modern.
>>46411666
>posting that retarded pic
Do you want the htread to fail?
>>46411666
> Why is Rome always so fitting to influence almost any fantasy setting?
During the Italian Renaissance, influential people flipped out about how cool Roman shit was, and saw themselves as coming back to those glory days. They also got a lot of things wrong, like assuming all the marble was supposed to be white instead of garishly painted.
During the Age Of Enlightenment, a lot of people saw themselves as some sort of extension of the Renaissance. Wealthy British people would finish their education by wandering around the country a while, and Rome was the most important stop. So Renaissance ideas and aesthetics (which cribbed from Roman ones) were heavily imported.
During the Romantic period, which was a backlash against the Age Of Enlightenment, people codified what would eventually become fantasy settings. They mashed up ideas from chivalric romances with modern ideas about romance. They also dropped all the (too modern) guns from their stories about the late medieval period. But the backlash was all about technology and the world being too analyzed - the Renaissance fetishism was still okay because it was also an artistic movement. So Roman stuff was still hip in this new idea about what the past was like.
>>46411666
A young man from a patrician family and loads of points in the system's charisma and/or oratory stats. There is no bigger powerbuild, if the game cleaves closely to the values of the Roman Republic.
>>46411686
A street plebian thief turned hired thug for>>46414651
every party needs a sneaky guy with thievery and assassination skills.
>>46411716
Try this:
http://drivethrurpg.com/product/144754/Eagle-Eyes--A-World-of-Adventure-for-Fate-Core
>>46411666
A gladiator who earned his freedom in a tournament.
Basically the combat specialist, who uses just about whatever weapon is available, if any, against any kind of enemies.
>>46411716
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>>46414945
I would play the shit out of an Augustinian Vigiles game. Wandering the streets, not giving a fuck about those filthly plebs, getting citizenship AND a stipend, smashing teeth in to get confessions.
A filthy barbar with nowhere else to go serving as an auxiliary in Britain
>>46411666
One of them fancy philosophomizers who believed that a strong body was a key component of a strong mind and with all that "virtus" shit.
I would spend all my time discussing heavy philosophical ideas about how to better myself, my fellow countrymen and the glory of Roma and then doing the same while heavily drunk.
>>46411716
Look for "The Man Who Would Avenge Caesar".
>>46411716
There is this. I have the hardbook but never played it, I'm afraid not to be knowledgeable enough about the period and the system has some flaws or some shit I don't understand and I had someone playing a priest with less priest-points than a warrior so I gave up.
>>46415778
There's a few Rome-based whodunnit novels. I haven't read them myself but I saw them lying around at my father's. So I guess you could do some research with those.
The two things the Romans got wrong were painted statues and pedophilia.
Everything else is spot on.
>>46415812
Yes, I could, but I'm not motivated enough at the moment. I just saw the thread and came in to post this since it seems there is an english version even tho much more stuff is in the french one.
>>46411666
>What character would you make for a game set in the Roman Republic?
The head of one of the many aristocratic houses, pulled into military service and serving as a cavalry commander. He is constantly split between what's good for the family and what's good for Rome.
>Why is Rome always so fitting to influence almost any fantasy setting?
Literally any Western nation worth a damn (no New Zealand, not you) draws inspiration from Rome for its institutions, law, traditions, customs, religion (Christianity grew in part due to Constantine and Theodosius) and sometimes even language.
>>46411774
Except there wasn't a retarded #CARTHAGINIANLIVESMATTER movement that used social justice as a front for riots.
>>46414530
You forget the part that Roman fanwanking is what also shaped up nearly all of our modern policits and influenced constitutions around the globe.
Look at the Eagle the US adopted. It was the Roman symbol.
Many other countries also feel they need to emulate Roman shit. Almost all constitutions have a clause that makes a reference to Rome, all government buildings in all countries have Roman themes, influences, etc.
I say, unless they bring the gladiatorial games and the free orgies, there is no point in emulating Rome anymore. It's either all or nothing I say, you can't select the serious parts and leave the cool parts out of it.
>>46417511
>Except there wasn't a retarded #CARTHAGINIANLIVESMATTER movement that used social justice as a front for riots.
Carthagians were white yo
>>46417787
>Gladiatorial games
Spain has bullfighting, but SJW want to ban it because it hurts the feelings of bulls ;____;
Seriously, take some prisoners, give them knives and let them fight the bulls for sentence reductions.
>>46417829
Prisoners you say?
I say, make the SJWs fight I say. Make them fight the bulls too!
>>46411666
I would make a smart fighter whose goal would be to rise in the ranks of the military and eventually become consul for a couple years before settling into the relatively easy life of a senator.
nothing too special on the surface but over the course of a campaign, the transition from real battle to down time (which IRL would usually be farming or setting up families with foreign women in conquered lands) to the metaphorical battlefield of political intrigue would be a lot of fun
>>46417812
AYY YO
*sacrifices firstborn*
HOL' UP
*blows glass*
YOU FINNA
*scrapes grains of sand out asscrack*
YO
*rides elephant*
YOU FINNA
*gets trampled by elephant*
YOU FINNA SAY
*gets ass kicked by Spaniards*
YOU TRYNA
*apologizes to wife's Gallic son*
YOU FINNA
*loses fleet to Romans*
YOU TRYNA SAY
*loses entire empire to Romans*
WE WUZ PHOENICIANS 'N SHIET?
>>46414651
Nero, the first neckbeard
>>46417787
>rome
>orgies
you watched too much movies, anon
>>46418045
>Raised by a single mother
>Hated his mother
>Incestuous fantasies
>Literal godcomplex
>Hated Christians
Holy shit you're right. We only need the "claims to love science but doesn't understand it" part.
Or... maybe we have that too... sort of
>Tutored by Seneca in ethics
>Forces Seneca to kill himself after a disagreement
>>46418097
>And the Macedonian woman said, her arm draped around the Roman legionaire, "You know what they say... when in Rome, do the Romans!"
-Excerpt from "Poor Little Roman Guy", 53 AD
>>46417787
Roman "orgies" are basically just highly exclusive wild parties as thrown by the patrician class.
>>46418155
How barbaric! She has mistaken German auxiliary for good Roman citizen.
>>46418313
>German auxiliary
Oh really?
>"Don't you ever talk to me or my wife's son again!"
-Cvckvs Maximvs, a supporting character in "Poor Little Roman Guy"
>>46417874
Hedonism Bot was without compare my favorite character in Futureama.
>>46414651
>>46418045
>>46418113
>nero
>neckbeard
wrong
nero was the ultimate qt3.14
>>46418468
You mean ultimate slut
>>46418490
judean propaganda
nero is pure
>>46418627
The Christians did the fire
>>46411666
Female Barbarian Hunter, seems like it would be fun walking around Rome in furs being uncivilized
>>46411774
That was common all the way through history, mate.
>>46411666
>republic instead of gloreius Empire
>>46411666
A world-weary Nubian bodyguard.
>>46418773
>Empire
>Glorious
Maybe under the reign of like, seven emperors or so. After that it was an orgy of coups, crazy retards, collapse, internal strife etc. Rome was never stronger than under the Republic, and the decline of the Republic was only the beginning of the end.
Caesar is almost universally considered a hero but his "dictator for life" shit started this whole clusterfuck.
>>46414674
Didn't Romans also have blonde hair?
>>46419241
Romans considered it beautiful but it wasn't common trait
>>46411666
Big, scarred, tubby ex-Gladiator, who, until the events of the adventure had worked as the fixer/majordomo for a Senators house. The guy who made sure that the paterfamilias had an entourage that befit his gravitas when he was out and about, the slaves had good teeth and where generally healthy, the whores didn't have the pox, and that the merchants didn't sell them substandard wine and food for the orgies. Largely a social character, decidedly underhanded and vicious fighter when the situation calls for it.
>>46419653
I've already seen this post somewhere
>>46417962
kinda sad so ancient and achieved a culture as theirs is reduced to /pol/ memery
>>46419286
>wasn't a common trait
>>46422432
Yes, families tend to share characteristics. Who knew?
>>46422432
That's 11 white haired Romans out of how many? This is quite literally on par with WE WUZ KANGZ 'N SHIET because they were a handful of Nubian kings of Egypt. Quite literally, considering Nordicists even used this as "evidence" that the Roman Emperors were Germanic and Rome's decline related to the dillution of Germanic genes. Of course they forgot that just past the Alps there were 100% Germanic tribes still wearing bearskins, living in their own shit and washing themselves with rags on sticks if they were even advanced enough to have invented rags.
>>46422945
>White
*LIGHT.
I substracted those called white/grey haired as that's an universal trait in the elderly.
>>46422945
Some dank memery you have going, son.
I still want to play a corrupt Roman lawyer
>>46422945
Plenty of Romans had light hair. The fucking empire stretched from Syria to Britain. They had all types.
>>46415844
Didn't the Romans despise paedophilia? Greeks were for it, though.
>>46423107
>The fucking empire stretched from Syria to Britain
>"Romans"
You know Roman Citizenship was a pretty exclusive club until the 3rd century and the start of the Roman nosedive, right? Only those who lived in Rome proper and a few exclusive outsiders were Roman citizens. The rest had neither Roman rights nor duties.
>>46423180
Nah, fucking boys was acceptable, if I remember right. The whole homosex thing was okay so long as you were doing the penetrating.
>>46423257
I know they tolerated, for want of a better word, the homo sex but I thought fucking kids was reviled. Maybe I'm mistaken.
>>46414530
>>46417787
These. Except, you forgot Catholicism.
>>46417511
There totally was. Except Carthaginian lives matter had elephants and nearly killed all of the Romans off.
>>46423347
Kid fucking was tolerated as something Emperors do when they're retired. Tiberius is probably the worst offender. They spoke ill of it but usually didn't do anything.
And then there's pedicare, which is basically man-boy love.
>>46417787
>unless they bring the gladiatorial games and the free orgies
This the exact line of thinking that caused the Eldar to have to deal with Slaanesh.
We dun want any of that.
>>46423257
>>46423347
>>46423511
It was acceptable to fuck slave boys in the ass. Sodomizing the son of a Roman citizen was objectionable.
>>46422432
The Irish claim they went to egypt, fucked some egyptian chick, invented ogham and latin, left some dudes to found Rome and then came back to have a rousing fight with their relatives who stayed in Ireland, don't they?
>>46411666
A pleb.
>>46419147
>>46419147
>Caesar
>Started this whole mess
This shit started with Caius Marius and Cornelius Sulla. Caesar is the one who brought it farther.
hell, probably even Before the Catiline conspiracy (the first, not the second).
I would say from the Social War onward was where it began.
>>46423577
OI MCGINISH YER FECKING 'APPY PADDY
THE FECK DID YE JEST CALL ME YE ROTTEN SUN OF A GOAT
WE LEF SUM PEOPEL BACK IN RUM TER FOUN' DE ROMAN EMPIRE AND 'SHOITE
DAT SOUNDS BLOODY NICE OI SAY. REAL PROPER LIKE WALLY.
AYE, WE FECKING BONED SUM EGYP'TAN SHE-WHO ALANG DE WAY ALLAN.
WAAT A PROPER ADVENTURE BOYO!
AYE, LET US FIGHT A BIT
>>46423573
>>46423544
>>46423511
>>46423347
>>46423257
>>46423180
>>46415844
As long as we're on the subjecthttp://pastebin.com/8kNERWf0
>>46417511
>Except there wasn't a retarded #CARTHAGINIANLIVESMATTER movement
That is because, even into the modern age, everyone knows that Carthaginian lives do not matter.
>>46411666
Am I the only one more bothered by the Soldier holding his sword with the left hand on the left hand side of the picture than I am by Maryus Sueus?
>>46423810
>http://pastebin.com/8kNERWf0
Where did you find this?
>>46424010
Remember the Weekend Smut Thread?
Neither do I
>>46411666
Kinda playing a not!Patrician from "Roma" in a 5e campaign at the moment, if that counts.
Though he's kinda on the lam and doing anything to avoid going back there, as he's wanted for over 900 counts of murder(really mass suicide when they took his rueful musing seriously) and one count of starting a cult(more a commune, but ehh).
