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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jsepeta" data-source="post: 5173112" data-attributes="member: 77143">gladiators in the arenalast night I did some historical research on wikipedia <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />  apparently the Colosseum was built AFTER Nero died on land that he had  taken from the people to turn into a lake. so in a correction to my  previous post, neither Nero nor Caligula used the Colosseum for staging  military battles and gladitorial contests. and it appears that  Christians weren't thrown to the lions there either.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coliseum" target="_blank">Colosseum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>however   the romans did do some pretty amazing things, as i had learned during  my Latin class in high school. 1) they filled it with water and  staged naval battles2) Emperor Trajan staged 123 days of contests  involving 10,000 gladiators and 11,000 animals3) for theatrical  performances, convicts who were given life sentences would be the  "actors" put to death via methods as per the myths that were performed  (set on fire, beheaded, etc)4) somewhere between 50,000 and 80,000  people would fill the Amphitheatrum Flavium. that's a huge crowd  to control.I'm expecting to stage a few "rounds". It will start  off slowly, one pc vs. a lightweight, then doubling up, then throw in  some animals and beasts. For our story, the pc's don't necessarily want  to be in the arena, and they've been coerced to participate. For the  final or next-to-final battle, I think throwing in a rust monster and  some kind of other monster that dazes or immobilizes would make it more  exciting. The emperor is "crazy", but crazy like a fox; he knows that  since a lot of people paid good money to come to the show, he's going to  give them their money's worth. The trick is to make each mini battle  not take too long or be too complex, so that by the final ruckus the  players will be a little spent but still have the capacity to battle.**as   for the tavern, there will be NPCs who are trying to stay out of the  fray (waitstaff, the barkeep's daughters). then there may be a few who  are trying to get the place back under control (bartender, cook).  players will be warned that they may not want to use lethal methods of  protecting themselves and others. and improvised weapons are obviously  part of the fun (chairs, tables, silverware, beer steins, stemware)</blockquote>

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