The Arena [News and Offical Disucssion]

[Darkxarth]

All righty, sounds fine to me.  But it means we need a DM.  Right?

Of course, if you don't want to mess with it, default would be fine too.

[Poseptune]

Another idea:

Roll 1d8 before a match to see what time of day the match is going to be held. This will give arena's varying degrees of light. Characters with dark/low light vision, hide skills, abilities that work off not being seen, etc... wouldn't have worthless traits or abilities.

[th]Result[/th][th]Time of day[/th]

1-2	Night
3	Dawn
4-7	Daylight
8	Dusk

[Darkxarth]

Oh, hmm, interesting.  But if it's night, how does the audience see the match?  Should their magic Spectator Spectacles have Darkvision as well?

[Endless_Helix]

Alright sounds cool. Let's go hunting in the MAZE!

[Poseptune]

All righty, sounds fine to me.  But it means we need a DM.  Right?

Of course, if you don't want to mess with it, default would be fine too.

If you need a pitboss. I will be willing to keep track of your positions and things you can't see. It won't be to interesting for those watching, unless you want to use the honor system again and use spoilers.

[Poseptune]

Oh, hmm, interesting.  But if it's night, how does the audience see the match?  Should their magic Spectator Spectacles have Darkvision as well?

Xathan still hasn't commented, but I would imagine that the spectators have some magical means of watching the matches. Otherwise attendance would suffer greatly.

[Darkxarth]

If you need a pitboss. I will be willing to keep track of your positions and things you can't see. It won't be to interesting for those watching, unless you want to use the honor system again and use spoilers.

Hm, actually, I'd be okay using spoilers.  That way everyone can enjoy the match.  Oh, speaking of which, I'm going to go and see what was in that secret spoiler I couldn't see in our match.

[Poseptune]

Eh since all you could see was an aura you just couldn't tell what weapon he drew.

[Darkxarth]

Ah, I see.  Cool.

[Poseptune]

So, do you guys want me to DM your fight?

If so I'll get a thread up just as soon as I get comfirmation. NM Endless already made the thread. :(

If so:
I will be rolling secretly to find out what gate you each enter from, this way you won't know where each other started off.

Spoiler blocks will be used to give actions, and I will put your character names on spoiler blocks for your characters if they see or hear anything, or anything else that will need to be told to them.

2 spells before entering the arena.  [dice]1d4-1[/dice] pre-combat rounds

[Darkxarth]

So, do you guys want me to DM your fight?

If so I'll get a thread up just as soon as I get comfirmation. NM Endless already made the thread. :(

If so:
I will be rolling secretly to find out what gate you each enter from, this way you won't know where each other started off.

Spoiler blocks will be used to give actions, and I will put your character names on spoiler blocks for your characters if they see or hear anything, or anything else that will need to be told to them.

2 spells before entering the arena.  [dice]1d4-1[/dice] pre-combat rounds

Sounds good to me. :D

[Xathan]

Oh, hmm, interesting.  But if it's night, how does the audience see the match?  Should their magic Spectator Spectacles have Darkvision as well?

Xathan still hasn't commented, but I would imagine that the spectators have some magical means of watching the matches. Otherwise attendance would suffer greatly.

This thread is getting hard to keep up on.

The entire arena is encased in a bubble that grants everyone outside of the fight the effects of a true seeing spell. Also, anytime an obstacle would impede their view (So whenever someone has concealment, uses a fog cloud spell, etc), it becomes translucent, allowing the people outside of the arena to see all combatant's location.

In addition, everyone in the arena, including the combatants, are affected by a Tongues spell, to account for the differences in languages.

[mneme]

Xathan: I think you may want to split the thread -- so die rolls, specific fight discussion, general rules discussion, and meta-discussion-discussion aren't competing for space.  Well, maybe that last.

I suggest you just say "there are a combination of spells in effect that allow the audience to see everything that goes on relevant to a fight" -- covering Time Stop spells, dimensional travel, psionic combat ("wow, they just stared at one another for a minute and one fell over.  Boring!"), etc.

One Q: If combatants want to use skills (like perform) to influence the audience (basically, for roleplaying purposes), can they roll the performance into their normal actions or do they have to take out special actions for that purpose?

[Captain Obvious]

Just rolling some dice for my new mystery Lvl 12. Anyone want to fight her when she's done? Any map you want.

 [dice]8+5d8+2d10+72[/dice]

[Ghost]

Just rolling some dice for my new mystery Lvl 12. Anyone want to fight her when she's done? Any map you want.

 [dice]8+5d8+2d10+72[/dice]

Sure. Looks interesting. I've got a centaur who's ready for his Arena debut.