The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" is an idiom that means "passing a point of no return". Its meaning comes from allusion to the crossing of the river Rubicon from the north by Julius Caesar in early January 49 BC. The exact date is unknown. Scholars usually place it on the night of 10 and 11 January because of the speeds at which messengers could travel at that time. It is often asserted that Caesar's crossing of the river precipitated Caesar's civil war, but Caesar's forces had already crossed into Italy and occupied Ariminum the previous day.
Caesar's civil war (49β45 BC) was a civil war during the late Roman Republic between two factions led by Gaius Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey). The main cause of the war was political tensions relating to Caesar's place in the republic on his expected return to Rome on the expiration of his governorship in Gaul.
Before the war, Caesar had led an invasion of Gaul for almost ten years. A build-up of tensions starting in late 50 BC, with both Caesar and Pompey refusing to back down, led to the outbreak of civil war. Pompey and his allies induced the Senate to demand Caesar give up his provinces and armies in the opening days of 49 BC. Caesar refused and instead marched on Rome.
The war was fought in Italy, Illyria, Greece, Egypt, Africa, and Hispania. The decisive events occurred in Greece in 48 BC: Pompey defeated Caesar at the Battle of Dyrrhachium, but the subsequent larger Battle of Pharsalus was won by Caesar and Pompey's army disintegrated. Many prominent supporters of Pompey (termed Pompeians) surrendered after the battle, such as Marcus Junius Brutus and Cicero. Others fought on, including Cato the Younger and Metellus Scipio. Pompey fled to Egypt, where he was assassinated upon arrival.
Caesar led a military expedition to Asia Minor before attacking North Africa, where he defeated Metellus Scipio in 46 BC at the Battle of Thapsus. Cato and Metellus Scipio killed themselves shortly thereafter. The following year, Caesar defeated the last of the Pompeians, at the Battle of Munda in Spain, who were led by his former lieutenant Labienus. Caesar was then made dictator perpetuo ("dictator in perpetuity" or "dictator for life") by the Roman senate in 44 BC. He was assassinated by a group of senators (including Brutus) shortly thereafter.
The civil war is one of the commonly recognised endpoints of Rome's republican government. Some scholars view the war as the proximate cause of the republic's fall, due to its polarising interruption of normal republican government.[4] Caesar's comprehensive victory followed by his immediate death left a power vacuum; over the following years his heir Octavian was eventually able to take complete control, forming the Roman Empire as Augustus.
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So here and then I play a special guest character in my work pal'a over a decade in the going DnD campaign. I often know what's gonna happen and have maybe contributed to the plot since my pal DMs and he'll usually swing ideas past me to add to, so when I show up I'm basically a DM NPC but with free will and I'm only gonna be there for at most 3 sessions. They've got a whole thing going that I don't wanna join permanently but getting to just show up sometimes and play a one off episodic guest star thing is fun. Once I just played a dog, not a special dog of any kind. It was one they found during a different quest that they'd heard someone in the same town had lost. Making a character sheet and role playing a totally standard dog was really fun. I got to play the evil advisor that some ruler had going on who was sent by said ruler on a quest with the party and obviously I was supposed to be a traitor and get found out by the party but I changed it up and simply used being sent on that quest as a chance to escape the ruler and had been feeding him bad advice cause I hated him, my exit from the campaign was still stealing one of their horses and riding away in the night. We've been talking about enchanted instruments that are legendary amongst bards that just sound like distorted guitars and basses do irl and I kinda wanna play a bard based on Ronnie James Dio with one of these sacred instruments who's mission is to find the other enchanted instruments and those who play them to start a band. I'll.be kinds like Gandalf in the hobbit, never really there when you need me but will occasionally show up im a jam and will sing a metal song about every encounter. If their campaign was atsr trek I'd be Jeffery Combes. It'd been recieved well by the group as well to just kinda have a guy they barely know and isn't under DM control to play featured NPCs as playable characters. That and I almost never have to do combat and can just role play whatever weird guy we cooked up.