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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron_Chef" data-source="post: 1379815" data-attributes="member: 4530">First, you're welcome!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Scarlet-Blades is a great resource; check out the Hyborian Lore section for a collaboration I did with them on the Hand of Ishtar.Second, I'm of the mind that nearly any country might host such games, but not on such a grandiose Roman Empire scale or permanent basis. For Romanesque spectacles, I'd say Koth, Nemedia, (western) Shem, Stygia, Turan, Zamora or Zingara off the top of my head. Koth is ruled by a power-mad evil king and the sorcerer Tsotha-lanti, so games make a good idea for distracting the people. For western Shem, any of the Meadow Shemite city-states might fit, but Asgalun, the largest (and closest to the coast), might be the best fit. Rival arenas could be another form of jealousy between the city-states; a good springoboard for adventure hooks. Stygia has a colisseum in a terrible Leonard Carpenter pastiche (CONAN THE GREAT?), and everyone knows they are evil and rejoice in the suffering of others. Turan is decadent and Zamora corrupt, so both make good bets as well. Nemedia is said to have a private palace arena in Robert Jordan's CONAN THE DEFENDER, which is normally reserved for feeding criminals to the wolves. Zingara is ruled by a ruthless dictator (read Karl Edward Wagner's ROAD OF KINGS) who needs to keep the people distracted.NOTE: I've started a thread on this subject on the Mongoose Conan forum; the first response was exhaustive and answers your questions in better detail and with more Howardian authority than I have. Enjoy it here:<a href="http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1291" target="_blank">http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1291</a></blockquote>

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