The Rules
The rules are as follows:
JOINING
- Anyone can join the Fight Club(tm), but you MUST join before participating in a match against another. Speak to Kedi (or his henchmen) about membership.
CHARACTER CREATION
- All combatants start at 10th level ECL. You may level up as you gain wins in Kedi's Killing Fields.
- You are limited to the 3.5 Core Rule Books (DMG, MM, & PH) and all 3.0+ Forgotten Realms Campaign material (with a few exceptions due to 3.5 incompatabilities).
- Use the nonstandard point buy method (28 points) outlined in the DMG on page 169.
- You may spend up to 49,000gp (the typical amount for a 10th level PC) on general or magical equipment.
- You must submit your character stats to Kedi in some form or another before being aloud to participate, like this thread or via E-mail.
COMBAT RULES
- Kedi (or one of his henchmen) oversee all matches and act as DM.
- Kedi (or one of his henchmen) make all dice rolls, regardless of who's character the roll belongs to. We do not use the honor system.
- Any rules and/or arrangements not shown here can be decided upon by the contestants such as in-character bets, meeting times, etc. These non-standard rules and conditions are always placed in the first post before the match starts for all to see.
- You may also declare Mage Duels (from Magic of Faerun) if both contestants are arcane casters.
- Do not use signatures during combat posting. Turn them off so the page loads faster and places are easier to find.
- Winners gain XP and gold equal to the normal gain for beating a CR creature equivalent to their opponent(s) if the battle was lethal combat. If the battle is non-lethal combat (such as a Mage Duel) you only earn three/quarters this amount. Example: If you are a tenth level character fighting an opponent of like level, you earn 3,000 XP and 5,800gp if you win or three/quarters that (round up) if it was nonlethal combat.
- If you are short a human challenger, but wish to participate anyway, you may try and arrange a fight with one of the following NPCs:
Maeryln Beanre, Male Drow Wiz 7 (CR 9)
Roland Goodknight, Male Human Pal 10 (CR 10) - Deceased
Broth Gerundag, Male Human Ftr 4 / Blc 7 (CR 11)
Serena Darknight, Female Elf Rng 12 (CR 12)
Qilue Nadran, Female Halfling Rog 8 (CR 8)
All NPCs are run by the DM (Usually Kedi) as is normally done in home games.
ARENAS
- The default arena is a 500 foot diameter circle created of indestructable stone slabs laid down to create a flat, smooth surface. It is surrounded by rows of stands for people to witness the many varied matches. It is placed under a bright open sky and has no real cover or obstacles.
- Other arenas may be added in time by the leaders of Fight Club(tm), or even newly created ones by the partakers of the challenge (that means you) can be created before the match begins.
WINNING, LOSING, & YOU
- As noted above you can earn XP and GP awards for beating your opponents appropriate to the encounter.
- If your character is ever truly killed (-10 hit points) in a match, it can no longer participate in arena combats unless it is somehow brought back to life. This is normally done by sponsorship (another member pays for your ressurection), diety intervention (Kedi), or some other (usually pre-determined) source. Such sponsorships or "back-up plans" must be submitted here for all to see.
- If your opponent is killed (see above), you are entitled to anything and everything that character brought into the arena.
- You may throw in the towel at any time, doing so causes you to lose the match. In the event of a Deathmatch, your opponent cannot kill your character after you withdraw from the match. Doing so is considered murder, which usually puts a bounty on the killer's head.
- If both characters agree to draw, the character with the highest percentage of hit points remaining wins the match and gains the appropriate benefits.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- All the above rules are subject to change. Changes will be listed right here on this post. If changes are drastic enough to change your character in some way, speak to Kedi before making them.
- Approximately once every month or two, Kedi and friends will host a tournament of sorts to see who is the current Fight Club "Champion." Tournaments work a lot like normal fights except Kedi chooses all of the fight's conditions (such as arena choice or other specilized rules) and you must earn the right to participate by having at least one win under your belt.
- The first battle has been concluded as of August 23rd, 2003 @ 5:21 p.m. (Eastern time) with Ravendark as the winner over Roland Goodknight.
- The second battle has been conluded as of September 2nd, 2003 @ 1:28 a.m. (Eastern time) with a mutual, verbally declared draw between Gip & Ravendark in their mageduel.
- The third battle has been concluded as of September 8th, 2003 @ 11:00 p.m. (Eastern time) with Thargon Nightbane as the winner over Eneralda Kasim. Unfortunately, a rampaging elephant (summoned by Emeralda's figurine of wondrous power) continued the fight and slew Thargon as well. To further complicate things, a veteran combatant, Ravendark, appeared on the field to claim both bodies as his undead servants and their equipment as his own. As he approached Thargon's corpse, he was crippled by Thargon's contingencied fireball, and then slain by Emeralda's conjured elephant.
- The fourth battle has been concluded as of September 21st, 2003 @ 10:30 p.m. (Eastern time) with Aust Evermoor as the victor over Eahrohear Nightbane.
Questions are to be submitted here and answered either by myself or Kedi (the real leader of this whole thing).
I added the membership to my sig.I am proud to be a member!
