Houses of the Blooded RPG Hack - The Roman Senate

[Scutarii]

Hi,

I am a roleplayer (in the table top, pen and paper sense) and I have recently got a copy of John Wick's 'Houses of the Blooded'.

The game is based on a fictional, historical bronze age civilisation called the Ven and the political machinations and conflicts that arise within their own culture and the 'Orks' (everyone not Ven).

Now, fantasy is fine but history is far more exciting.

I want to run a game set in the Roman Senate and was wondering about good books or just general information on the Roman Senate. Structure, offices, powers, influence, famous disobedience, times where it has had internal strife etc etc.

Basically the good stuff to tell stories about!

[Tanit]

Sallust's Catiline Conspiracy, or catiline War.

[Marcus Darkstar]

Sallust's Catiline Conspiracy, or catiline War.

Basically the Roman Conspiracy that told all other romans how NOT to do a conspiracy against the State.

[Marcus Darkstar]

Hi,

I want to run a game set in the Roman Senate and was wondering about good books or just general information on the Roman Senate. Structure, offices, powers, influence, famous disobedience, times where it has had internal strife etc etc.

Basically the good stuff to tell stories about!

Offices are easy ones to note.

Promagistrates- This includes the offices of ProConsul, ProPreator, and even proquaestors. Essentially inveted by the Senate to better control thier overseas territories without having to constantly elect new people for them. Since office terms typically were 12 months long with the exception of the Censor who has a office term of 18 months. Promagistrates didnt have set office terms like 1 year like ordinary offices and could be subjected to being replaced or overruled by roman assemblies.

Or just wikipedia the other offices but i think dependin on the timeframe the importance of Promagistrates.

I think everyone's heard of the Spartacus slave revolt, or any roman war i guess.

[moonburn]

i advice you the collection in 5 books "the 1st man of rome" it´s a mix beteween historical research/interpretation and a romance/novel it goes into deep details about the roman political life expecially the one about cesar where there´s always some interesting interpretations of the volatile political situation in rome where milan pompey cesar and so forth and so forth do the kind of roleplay that you mentioned

[mediobogdum]

What a sweet idea, I would first get settled in a particular period of Roman history (big split being before or after Caesar) and drill down from there. The early republic time frame would be great for a campaign.