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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hafrogman" data-source="post: 4935022" data-attributes="member: 8858">Looks fine to me.  I'm still trying to figure out all the details of my history, but your part would be just the most recent stuff, so it can fit.  I can see us actually choreographing parts of our fight to up the excitement.Sparky - I don't know if my PM went through last night.  If so, I apologize for duplicating it, but people seem to be posting their questions here anyways.A couple of questions:1. How civilized is Nerath?  Does it have royalty and cities and whatnot, or is it just a region filled with various human barbarian tribes?  How far has humanity gotten?2. I assume the arena's civilization is TBD because it hasn't been chosen yet, and not because it's a secret.  But did you have any idea how brutal/oppressive the civilization itself is supposed to be?  Your original post just said that the players were unwilling gladiators and wanted to escape.  Are most of the gladiators unwilling, or just most of the PCs?  Is there an extensive industry in enslaving random people for the arenas, or is it just that slaves that have combat training (see: the characters) get sent to the arenas?Basically, I'm putting together my character's history, and I don't want him to be a guy who loved being a gladiator while killing little old ladies who got thrown into battle with him.  So the goal is for him to have been facing worthy opponents.  I came up with a couple of options, depending on the answer to #2.A - For a darker arena civilization, he was probably originally a gladiator in another place before ending up here.  In which case, I need to pick a civilization where he was originally fighting, but that means I need to know where we are currently.  =)B - For a more "civilized" set-up, there could be tiers of gladiators.  At the top are atheletes, free men or pampered slaves, professional gladiators fighting against each other for fame and glory.  Then come the slaves, people with combat training who are too dangerous for normal duties, pitted against each other, perhaps with a chance to win their freedom or a promotion to the top tier, if they don't die first.  And at the very bottom would be prisoners, basically glorified executions Christians v. Lions style.  Then my character would have been demoted from the top tier through mishap or political machinations.(B could work with Renau1g's story.  The David v. Goliath fight was actually meant to be the bottom tier, a public execution.  But when the victim actually won, the crowds forced the arena masters to move him up to the next tier, becoming a gladiator slave instead of a condemned man.  Not much of a step up, but a little.)</blockquote>

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