Have your players ever had slaves?

Do red shirts count as slaves?

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I had a valet I paid and treated rather poorly.

I mostly play Neutral or Good aligned characters so no (one of them has a butler but he treats him okay and the dude's a free man), but I do plan to have some with my only Evil character to date, an infernal lineage sorceress. However my best memory with slaves in gaming is this.

>GM wants to make a fun shitty one-shot as a breather for our main PF campaign
>all decide to make disposable That Guy-tier characters for shit and giggles
>GM agrees and makes an equally retarded scenario
>make an alchemist with the homonculist archetype
>play him as an asshole Calvin Candy expy (think of him as a slave-owner tryhard gentleman making himself look cultured and refined by practicing very crude alchemy) from the River Kingdoms
>goes around with a leashed abomination that was once one his halfling plantation slave.
>GM and me spend a whole evening rolling mutations for "it" laughing our asses off from the over the top horror of it all
>game night comes
>whodunnit on a secluded island
>killed by a gargoyle
>paladin fucks my corpse in the ass
>boss resurrects me
>detonate all of my bombs at once, taking the paladin with me.

It was the weirdest shitshow of a game I ever played and the most shameful PC I ever made but it was lots of fun for everyone. Turns out our GM now plans to use those characters as stock mini-bosses for the main campaign.

Yes.

I once played a very high status noble in an L5R game. I had my peasant attendants carry me EVERYWHERE. As things tend to escalate in L5R campaigns played too close to a D&D plot, our mission sent us to the shadowlands.

My character passed within line of sight of the festering pit of Fu Leng, and returned to Rokugan, *having never physically touched anything in the Shadowlands*. I then thanked my peasant attendants for their service, for the first and last time, before ordering their execution and cremation because they were probably tainted or something and I don't want that shit coming back to *my* village.

Yes, it was me, the forever DM.

Why can't a non-evil character own slaves?

The closest anyone's come to owning a slave in one of my games is once in a oneshot I made on very short notice, the party druid bought a 2 year old from a child slave stall that was originally supposed to be a gag in a !notMiddleEastern bazaar. He interviewed all of the children there one by one, asking how old they were, if they had any special talents and if they liked spiders, if they liked scorpions, if they liked snakes and if they liked birds. He wanted to buy a child who would be okay with his shape shifting, but he didn't really like any of the kids who were old enough to do labor. He went with the toddler, so he could mold her into the perfect daughter. Next combat he almost accidentally killed her. By the end of the session the other PCs ditched him because he creeped them out.

I prefer the word Thralls