From the introduction: Forget what you saw in Animal House. There's a lot more to throwing a good old-fashioned Roman revel than just draping yourself in bedsheets and getting wild. The ancients took their fun seriously; dinnertime debauchery was an art refined over the course of centuries, from the relatively austere decadence of Tiberius in the first century A.D. (naked waitresses) to the boundlessly inventive frolics of certain third-century emperors (don't even ask). User summary: The role-playing component of this LARP is minimal.