The Fourth Silver Shield Tournament of Arms (Tomorrow!)

[arakes99]

The event will be at 10AM PST or 1PM EST or 1800 GMT on Saturday 1/18

Posters are tacked to boards around Baldur's Gate, The Friendly Arms Inn and Beregost decorated with scrolling silver leafing along the edges.

"The Silver Shield is promoting its fourth tournament of arms, open to all for participation. The tournament will be a test of martial combat and will award 15,000 coin to the winner of the experts bracket and 10,000 to the skilled bracket champion. There seems to be a lack of novices willing to compete so this bracket has been dropped. The Shield hopes to continue fostering a spirit of healthy competition to improve the skills of all the coasts defenders and hope that the tournament will see denizens of the elven nations, the dwarves of the north and members of the knightly orders.

The event will be held at the arena in the farmlands just north of Baldur's Gate. This promises to be a lively event so we welcome one and all to attend the festivities as spectators of this fine event! From now on the Silver Shield will be dedicating its tournament to sensible men of arms only as other attempts at fair competition have proven futile."

The poster goes on to list the details of the exact contest rules.

((This event will be fought to the down and will allow melee and archery attacks only. To make the event open to those with magical talents but in the interest of keeping things fair 3 preparatory spells, scrolls, potions or abilities will be allowed before the fight. As long as you can apply the effect to yourself it is allowed. The following spells and abilities are forbidden to even the playing field: Song of Requiem, Shapeshifting of any kind, Elemental Shield. No spells, potions, on use items or scrolls will be allowed after the start of the fight but natural abilities OTHER than the ones I just mentioned will be allowed during the fight. Bardic songs and inspirations are included in this. Stealth will be allowed to begin the fight hidden and to hide twice more time during the fight, it has been made very apparent in past tournaments that a skilled backstabber could easily clear the competition with little effort without such a rule and even with such a rule the advantage is still ever present.

Expert Bracket is 21 and over
Skilled Bracket is 10-20
))