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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hafrogman" data-source="post: 4935470" data-attributes="member: 8858">Some thoughts I had on the arena system.  Don't know if you were looking for player input on this, or if you had your own ideas, but this is what I worked into my background for now.[sblock=Gladiator Ranks]Gladia Prima - The highest tier of arena combat.  These warriors are highly trained, willing participants.  The gladiators are owned by or associated with individual nobles or houses and are a highly valuable commodity.  For this reason, fights are rarely, if ever, to the death.  Battles are usualy individual matches between two combatants, the pinnacle to a day's entertainment being a long, drawn-out battle between two champions.  As the warriors are frequently well known, gambling features fairly static odds.Gladia Secunda - Gladiators owned by the arena themselves are considered far more expendable, the untrained or reluctant warriors.  The arena masters are not known for being too particular in who they deal with to acquire these gladiators.  Easily replaced, their main purposes are to fill out the schedule, to make sure a little blood is spilled for the crowds, and to boost gambling income with uncertain match ups.  Combat is to the death unless one gladiator yields, in which case the crowds determine their fate.  If a good show has been produced, the loser is usually spared . . . unless they make a habit of it.  These matches feature the most variety, including individual matches, uneven contests, team battles, fights against chariots, beasts and anything else the arena masters come up with to fill the seats.Gladia Tertia - Glorified public executions, these fights usually feature the hapless and the helpless pitted against overwhelming odds: unarmed men against savage animals, a lone man with a dagger facing an armed and armored giant.  These are usually scheduled early in the day, to whet the crowd's appetite for the blood yet to be spilled.  If by some chance, a condemned criminal survives his match, he is simply placed with the Gladia Secunda to face his death again and again until it claims him.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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