Roaringshore, The Pitt event.

[Gareut]

The words spreads quickly about Roaringshore's coming event. Mouth to mouth amongst not so noble men and woman; The Hellstorm Crew and one unknown person known as "Blonde" are going to host a brawling night! Mostly pure violence, huge bets, alcohol, blood and pirates. The location is rumoured being in the Broken Goblet's dark arena which have a horrible reputation amongst duelists. "The stone floor is always so slippery from blood and mostly of time I have to keep looking around so I dont get backstabbed by a drunken pirates!"

Those brave or fool enough who seems to be interesting about fighting are said that there will be two different fighting classes. Unarmed and armed. In unarmed fighter's fists will do the the speaking and in armed you may choose from few basic weapons which the Hellstorm Crew will provide. Promise to the men and women who wish to fight is: "No one will be killed. The winner of fight will be rewarded with gold and free drinks. The other not so lucky will be healed by Ship's Priest or Priestess. We have seen enough poem reading and tea sipping at the campfires! Fame, gold and wenches are waiting for you! Sword Coast needs more blood and Fury!"

The Captain is also looking his own champion to this fight. She or he would be rewared with most valuable items and favours.

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[-Friday 2 or Saturday 10 .09.2011 GMT+0 20.00

-No Hips.

-No Magic or buffs. You cant even use wands to buff before the fight or in a fight. In the Broken Goblet is 100% spell failure. No potions of any sort.

-Bardic Inspirations, Power Attack, Combat Expertise etc. modes are allowed.

-Nothing heavier than leather armours. [Chainmails, scalemails, brestplates, full plate mails arent allowed. Chain Shirts contain metal chain, so thye're banned as well.]

-No own weapons. The Crew will provide weapons which are used in armed combat. [Weapons which a sailor might use. Dont wait an elven mithral longsword.]

-Before every fight there will be betting. Gold will flow like the blood. A charter with the list of fighter organized by the order of attendance is made a few hours prior each event for the ease of betting. Five thousand gold pieces per fighter are taken before the betting ends. Minium bid of 500 gold pieces. Coin will be handed out after the whole event, not after each match. You can still place bets before each match, though.

-Listen to the announcer. Do not speak when the announcer is speaking. Interrupting the announcer will result in obsoletion of the bet and loss of gold and / or life.

-The fights are classified in brackets, which go as follows:

* Level 26+ Ultra-Heavyweights
* Level 21-25 Heavyweights
* Level 15-20 Lightweights

The fighters will be randomly matched up on the charter mentioned earlier, based on level.

-RP you reasons if you are coming to this event. Some character might be not welcomed.

-All attendees must name themselves before the event on the forum via PM to Gareut. Attendance will be registered one hour before the start of the event. To attend please send the name of your character and the bracket you're fighting against [NO CHEATING!!]

-You want to be Captain's champion? Send a PM. Captain's champion will have a special fight which will crown the night.

Questions? I happily answer to those by PM. I would love to keep this thread as close to in game as possible. "Roleplaying Thread." If the event is Great Success there will be more of pirate brawling!-]

[Karond]

A few slayers will come, for the ale if nothing else...

[Gareut]

The half naked dwarves are welcomed. The Captain sents few of his men to find some basic axes for those fiercy warriors.

[Gareut]

[Is today. Starting about 6 hours.]

[Gareut]

[Thanks to everybody who took part to this event. To those who forget this part I can only say that we warned you.]

-RP you reasons if you are coming to this event. Some character might be not welcomed.

[We will fix the few mistakes from our hosting part and will return shortly, if you have any advices, feel free to send a PM or two. The Sword Coast shall have more fury and blood!]

[Karond]

* Two hellstorm member to take bets. One for each combatant.

* Limit amount of bets for a fight, by say, a goldcount (once 5k is taken on each combatant, no further bids can be taken etc.). Unneccessary bidding takes up ALOT of time.

* Don't hand out coin at the end of each game. Hand out the coin won as players are about to leave the Arena, and only then (they need to request for it to the bet-takers). Just keep a tab in someones journal, that way you've less things to do and can RP more much to your own enjoyment.

* Bids are more exciting when winners on certain bouts take on each other. Make sure to make a sort of play-off thingy. Ignore levels for simplicity. Or, make it a bit more random and chaotic. Sometimes 1 vs 1, other times 2 vs 2. Or just a straight out brawl with last man standing!

* Bid everyone to shut the hell up when making introductions of the fighters, and before the whole event start, and at intermissions.


You were doing great under the circumstances, and it will be better next time I think

[Galaahd]

/// Yeah, we should totally adopt a better system for gambling... but I guess we should also set the fights earlier, so we could even... fix some things?

[Randall]

/// Twas fun anyway, gents. (-;

[Krazy]

Good suggestions Karond.

The armour restriction wasn't enforced, not that I think it changes much, a level 8 swashbuckler isn't going to beat Toinus if he's wearing a sack instead of full plate

I think maybe we need a system of rating entrants, so they only face off in similar level ranges to stop the fights being too one-sided.

I would propose fight nights based on level, Ultra-heavyweights, 26+, Heavyweights, 21-25 and perhaps 15-20.

I would suggest even number of entrants, 4 or 8, so they can be knock-out competitions, winner facing winner. And yes 2 v 2 or last man standing are good ideas too.

Better gambling system, agreed. Might take some time to fine tune.

Perhaps we need DM assisstance to simulate spiking Tonius' ale, give him some ale of the elven songstress, -6 Str, -6 Con, +12 Cha. To yeah, fix things as Galaahd suggests...

[Xanfyrst]

We should consider having contestants join up via the forum instead. It's a headache having to figure out who's fighting who on the spot.

[BORGDragon]

/// Ahh darn, I missed this?

Did not know about it till I read it just now... so would have come for some fun!

[Xanfyrst]

Don't worry, we'll have more in the future

[Gareut]

[Rules updated, two dates added. Comments? Thoughts?

Friday 2.09.2011 GMT+0 20.00
or
Saturday 10.09.2011 GMT+0 20.00]

[Karond]

Yes.

Remember to keep track of betting. Take part of the gold put on the losing fighter for yourself, and divide the rest among the winners according to bets. Write their names in the journal, with a number indicating their coin won. And update it if they gamble more. Takes a bit of math-thinking to get it right.


And last, my only real suggestion. Get a few leather armors. Make them all have the same appearance. And lend these out to the fighters, they've to use these. This gives a few things. You do not have to control that people are wearing the armors you want, since everyone wears the same. And since only you guys know the appearance beforehand, its hard to cheat by making an exact copy with that appearance of your superior +4 leather armor.

[Karond]

Another suggestion, shamelessly stolen from a popular Tv-Series.


I think you shouldn't have people pick weapons. Instead, have a lottery to decide what weapon they get! Ranging from all the pirate weapons, to no weapon at all, to some spiked gloves.



*Bjorn Olsen reach down the urn*

For Grugnar, its dual Daggers!

*Bjorn Olsen reach down into a hidden compartment to influence the match, and picks up the hidden note*

And for Leo, its rotten wodden club!!!


Would be great entertainment (and you lose the timewasting "weapons or fists" option), and would influence bets