Re: (TFT) Re: TFT Digest -Gladiators, Gladiators!

[Scott Haley <someotherwag@earthlink.net>]

I've thought about a TFT campaign in which the player characters are  
gladiators.  I would be great to use the historical weapons and  
armor, but there are problems.  One is the weird stuff about armor on  
just one limb, but it sounds like that can be handled.  The other is  
that players will want a character with high strength to wield a big  
weapon, and the historic gladiators don't do that.  It might be more  
fun for my players if I let them use whatever hand to hand weapons  
and armor they want.

I read that the Roman gladiators usually survived their fights.  I  
think that the way to simulate that would be to modify the "practice  
combat" rules from the basic Melee book: that a player can't fight on  
when his strength is 3 or less, and that characters who are knocked  
out that way can't be attacked.  You only die if someone hits you so  
hard that you're taken from above 3 hit points down to zero, hard to  
do if the target is wearing armor.  The practice combat rules also  
say that weapons are blunted and do half damage, but I don't think  
that's appropriate for the arena.

If a gladiator is killed, the manager of the gladiator who killed him  
may have to pay a fee.  That's one reason why killing was  
discouraged.   If the crowd's in a bad mood though, the officials may  
decide to please them by ordering a gladiator to actually kill his  
opponent.

--Scott 
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