GLADIATORS - 'poly

Jamski · November 27, 2003, 19:47

Gladiators!

Following the insane success of Nuclear War and Mafia another game where you can kill your fellow posters - but this time its personal!

The Dead Simple Rules

Each player is a gladiator, forced to fight for our amusement in one-on-one combat. YAY!

Action Pool

Each player starts with an action pool of 10.
In a fight the player must choose how many of thier action points to allocate, and post this to the umpire.
Winners will improve thier action pool.
Losers will be dead.

Combat

Each player PM's the umpire with how they will split their action pool.
There are three categories - skill, dodge and power.
The umpire compares the skill of each player with the dodge of the other player. If the skill is higher than the dodge, then a hit is scored. In the case of a draw see below under "challenges"
When a player is hit, then their action pool is reduced by the power of the opponent, for the duration of that fight.
When a player is reduced to 1 action pool point or less, they lose. Zero or less they are DEAD.
It is possible that both gladiators kill each other

Challenges

A player can challenge any other player to a fight. They MUST accept, or be branded a coward and permanatly lose one from thier action pool. The one who is challenged decides if a draw is a defender-win or an attacker-win. An umpire is then selected (can be anyone)
Anyone can offer to be an umpire for a fight between two gladiators. They must accept the challenge, or be branded cowards etc etc... An umpire says before hand if a draw is a defender-win or an attacker-win.
A player can only refuse a challenge without penalty if they are already in a fight.
Any fighter not responding to a challenge in 48 hours is judged to have "wimped out" and loses one action pool point permanantly.
Winning a fight brings the reward of gaining one APP permanatly, so it's a good idea to win as many as possible. Fast play is rewarded.
Umpires should post results in this thread as the game progresses.
After a fight any survivors are fully healed.

Example
Skanky challenges Spike to a fight.
Spike accepts.
ADG is the umpire.
Skanky sends PM "skill 3, dodge 4, power 3 =10"
Spike sends PM "skill 3, dodge 2, power 5 = 10"
ADG posts results "Skanky hits Spike with power 3. Spike misses Skanky.
The two gladiators send new PMs. This time Spike only has 7 points to distribute.

...

Eventually one player is defeated (could take 15 minutes if everyone's on the ball)

So, who's in? Any number of people can play, you can join at anytime, and you can even start a new gladiator if you are killed (if you must)

You gotta love these simple rules I dreamed up in the pub tonight

Split those points between attack, defense and damage. If your skill beats their dodge you hit for your power. Pure simple one-on-one killing strategy. Win the fight to get more points to split.

-Jam

Jamski · November 27, 2003, 19:52

I'm in of course. Jamskius Maximus, the badass Gallic spearman!!!!!

And I'll take a challenge from ANYONE!

-Jam

Az · November 27, 2003, 19:57

I am officially NOT signing in for this!

Jamski · November 27, 2003, 20:03

We have our first COWARD!

-Jam

DrSpike · November 27, 2003, 20:11

Jamski do you just make these games up?

Anyway the chance to spill Skanky's blood is too tempting.........I'm in.

Nubclear · November 27, 2003, 20:30

What if a player allocates 10 points to dodge each turn?

DrSpike · November 27, 2003, 20:34

Then they never do damage I suppose, or receive any.

Jamski · November 27, 2003, 20:36

Then the fight will be very boring. Imagine one gladiator just running around the arena, having dropped his sword to run faster. The crowd will boooo! Of course its allowed, but you won't win that way.

Quote:

Jamski do you just make these games up?

I wrote :

Quote:

You gotta love these simple rules I dreamed up in the pub tonight

See?

I'd like to see Spike vs Skank

-Jam

Nubclear · November 27, 2003, 20:38

I'll join.

DrSpike · November 27, 2003, 20:38

Well wouldn't it be best to have 8 players sign up then have a knockout tourney, with the person who wins the final bout being the Ultimate Gladiator?

Jamski · November 27, 2003, 20:48

Why stop at 8?

But having death as permanant, with the last man standing the ultimate gladiator, that I like

Players so far :
Jamskius Maximus (10 APP's)
Spikian of Physiciae (10 APP's)
Fratre Tassadarius (10 APP's)

Keep them coming.

-Jam

DrSpike · November 27, 2003, 20:51

Well it has to be 8, 16, 32 etc.........8 seems reasonable since with lots of players it'll take ages.

Jamski · November 27, 2003, 21:02

Nah, you wanna have free challenge till everyone is dead. Or fixed fights by wannabe umpires. Then anyone can play.

Or we can have an 8-man knockout, I'm easy really

But now I must sleep.

-Jam

General Ludd · November 27, 2003, 22:27

I'm willing to try it out...

Skanky Burns · November 28, 2003, 02:07

I have been mentioned twice already in this thread.
My honour must be defended!

Az · November 28, 2003, 03:44

Quote:

Originally posted by Jamski
We have our first COWARD!

-Jam

You got me.

Asmodean · November 28, 2003, 04:52

Great...a new Jamski game.

I'm up for this

But: Shouldn't we have an overall umpire that keeps tabs on the number of action points each player has. I foresee arguments otherwise

Asmodean

Jamski · November 28, 2003, 06:18

It will have to be posted in this thread to make sure noone is pulling a sly one.

Players so far :
Jamskius Maximus (10 APP's) - no kills
Spikian of Physiciae (10 APP's) - no kills
Fratre Tassadarius (10 APP's) - no kills
Asmodean the Varangian (10 APP's) - no kills
Oswaldian (10 APP's) - no kills
Centurion S. Burns (10 APP's) - no kills

Feel free to complain about your name

I'd like to see Spikian take on Centurion S. Burns.

-Jam

DrSpike · November 28, 2003, 06:50

Hehe Jamski, maybe. Let's take a quick vote on the tourney structure.........I'd favour an 8 man tourney with the final man left standing the Ultimate Gladiator. Of course we could just have unconnected battles, but I think that would be less fun. What does everyone else think?

Jamski · November 28, 2003, 07:14

Let's have an 8-man knockout then, with random pairings. We just need two more people to join...

-Jam

DrSpike · November 28, 2003, 07:33

Come on people, your emperor awaits! Your chance to perform in front of 1000s of bloodthirsty fans. And, a chance to stab Skanky. What more could you want.

Who is brave enough to enter Jamski's Gladiatorial Challenge?

Sheep · November 28, 2003, 07:57

Sheepus of Germania is in.

Adagio · November 28, 2003, 08:03

/me enters the arena

Where do I sign up for this?

I vote for a 8 man knock-out

DrSpike · November 28, 2003, 08:15

Good, we have 8. Now we just need someone to draw up the tourney schedule.

General Ludd · November 28, 2003, 09:23

I want to be known as Ossus the Brute.

Jamski · November 28, 2003, 11:01

OK, my random rolling of a d8 gives :

Spikian of Physiciae vs Fratre Tassadarius
Centurion S. Burns vs Jamskius Maximus
Ossus the Brute vs Asmodean the Varangian
ADG Mysterius vs Sheepus of Germania

Ave Caesar! We who are about to die salute you!

We need volunteer umpires. I'll do Spikian vs Tassadarius.

-Jam

DrSpike · November 28, 2003, 12:01

Can you do your match first Jamski? Since its your creation you deserve the honour and we can all see how the game works in practice. I'll umpire.

Jamski · November 28, 2003, 12:02

Ok, my PM is on its way.

-Jam

Adagio · November 28, 2003, 12:10

I can take one of the following:

Ossus the Brute vs Asmodean the Varangian
ADG Mysterius vs Sheepus of Germania

I prefer the last one

DrSpike · November 28, 2003, 12:11

By the way are action point pools still going to change between fights now that we have a tourney structure?

Also I suggest we fight to the death, ie 0 points for 1 player in each fight.