Gladiator!

The Unseelie Colosseum has seen many thousands of gladiators come and go. Some are slaves, others are criminals, still others are freemen, soldiers and mercenaries and yet upon the bloody sands of the Colosseum they are all just: Gladiator! A gladiator rarely knows what they will face when next they step onto the sands. Will they be fighting criminals sentenced to death? Or a chained wyvern? Will they be fighting alone? Or will they be placed as part of a team? Will the arena be empty sands? Or will it be rigged with mechanical and magical traps? Will the gladiator even be armed? Or will they be expected to improvise? And the most important question of all: Will the gladiator survive to fight again? DAY ONE: 169 gladiators have entered the Dar Games – they will fight in matched pairs from sundown to sunrise, assigned by random drawings. These matches are no weapons barred, magical or mundane. Spell-casting and magic item use is permitted and unrestricted during the bout but no magic may be prepared beforehand and all participants are screened by the King’s Templar’s before entering the arena. Gladiators must remain within the confines of the arena (or no more than 40 feet above it), but no rules infringe upon the combat itself. A match ends when any gladiator cries “Mercy” of their own free will. An entire team, or a matched pair will lose if just a single member of their team surrenders. A gladiators may fight to the death, if they choose, and the fight is not lost simply because your partner was killed. The winners may choose any single item, each, from the losers. This might be a weapon, item, armor, magical or mundane, or they might claim the loser’s money pouch. By the morning, 13 gladiators must have been eliminated, either by their consent or their death. If less than 13 gladiators have been eliminated, the requisite number of under performers (as decided upon by the Arena Templars) will remain in the arena, under the rising sun, until only one is left standing. The Dar Games will continue for 13 days until, during The Closing Ceremonies, the City of Yhakkoth will return to the Sand King his long-missing Royal Airship, the Princess Parizade. At these celebrations the sole Dar Champion will be granted a public audience with King Maloc and be permitted to take the Champion’s Plea (whereupon, they are allowed to name their own reward: riches, titles, power or a unique request of The Sand King. If the King is pleased, he may even grant your wish). DAY ONE: MATCHED PAIRS 1800 – Drusilla the Unblooded & Rikard the Bull (VICTORS) VERSUS Cpt Doud & Hagga the Howler 1830 – Reka the Snake & Rikard the Bull (VICTORS) VERSUS Amarta the Swift-Legged & Gondric the Spear (DECEASED) 1900 – Reka the Snake & Smith Khalid (VICTORS) VERSUS Timor the True & Sgt. Zalcoor 1930 – Cpt. Doud & Smith Khalid (VICTORS) VERSUS Engra the Strong & Master Sintha (DECEASED) 2000 – Reka the Snake & Chron Velitus VERSUS Jaqueel the Swimmer & Tithian Mericles (DECEASED) 2030 - Etthuul the Crone & Chron Velitus (VICTORS) VERSUS The Fisherwoman & Rhona 166 gladiators remain on The Rolls, 10 more need to be eliminated before sunrise… <a href="https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/details/2110/the-" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/details/2110/the-</a>... <a href="https://the-world-of-llowellen.obsidianportal.com/" rel="nofollow">https://the-world-of-llowellen.obsidianportal.com/</a>...

I'm interested in joining (Can only play on sunday mornings though) but your link to roll 20 doesn't work. Open up the campaign, and give us that link.

Hi Paul, thanks for your interest. You are more than welcome to join us when the game falls on a Sunday. I run Gladiator! as a monthly game and it has a revolving stable of players who come and go. I do my best to hold it on different days of the weeks - some months I will run on a weekend from 10am to accommodate European players, other months it falls on an evening. I'm not sure I understand your other point? The link appears to work, as far as I can tell, but obviously the campaign isn't open if I'm not running it. On game days, I post the link to play on the game's Obsidian Portal forum and the players head in from there. That said, I'm not an expert in the finer workings of Roll20 so it is entirely possible I misunderstand you. Either way, I hope we can throw some dice soon.

Interested as well. To invite players to the game; there is another link when you launch the game that you have to give players. Just copying the game forum/pre-launch sight wont invite.

Thank you all for your interest. It turns out my Saturday is not as free as I'd hoped, I won't be able to run this game tomorrow. But due to the interest I would love to reschedule for Sunday if I've still got players. I will post the link when I launch the game, 10am MT Sunday.

I don't know what system it is so I'm not entirely sure you know if I want to come play but it does seem interesting to say the least. I've always kind of been looking for a grindhouse sort of game (make a character you expect to die within one game session to make another character)

It is basically d20. Arcana Evolved.