The Winch Duelling Championship

[perlyboy]

[one does not die falling off there, that is why the idea was made, anyway.. since it's not allowed, i planned a different location]

http://hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=34570.0

[Lafemme Elveness]

[  well what can i say! a great idea shunned and banished!......thats it push the many duellers that PS has away, people who train hard and together with friends to learn this skill. Something thats always guaranteed to bring folks together, i've never seen an empty championship.

But always being banished to fields afar, by a certain group which think duelling is so un RP (oh god thats it! that magic word will have me flamed  with messages containing reams of IC OOC blah blah blah as always 'it drives me nuts as it's not the point', and once again is this what it all boils down too....?
When duelling or whatever i'm IC i'm a warrior/mage. Champs on a platform thats different, would test there skill further and that would bring a nice twist and refreshment to competitions, banned in what is mostly a dead and totally deserted place that people only ever go to to train or quest  ....filled with spectators and entrants, would have been a nice change.

It was a good idea. i wonder if the GM's would ever host such an event themselves so it could be controlled as they don't intervene in player events!

Well done Perlan for the brainwave and good luck with the new area  lets hope theres no problems on that]
 ehem had to get my trias worth in

[Donari Tyndale]

Brainwave zero? This whole idea is totally OOC. The winch is a place where merchants strive to do their business. And they and the Octarchy would most certainly not hold a tournament there.

[zanzibar]

I was writing a post when this got locked, now that it is unlocked I will try again.

It seems to me that there is a kind of event where this could take place and that is as a militia war games exercise. This would be last defence of the lower levels from insurgents above or vice versa. Certainly such an important installation would have some sort of plan for its control. I hadn't considered falling to their deaths as a factor due to that not actually happening, I believe it generates an out of bounds teleportation but I have not tried it recently. If this were the case it might well be a magical safety feature of the winch. Surely the Octarchy does not allow its citizens to easily commit suicide and litter the lower levels with their corpses.There ought to be a fence the entire length of the precipice in accessible areas. I wonder too about how skittish pack animals are prevented from jumping to their deaths.

So you're saying that if it was a completely different event, run by the GMs instead of players, then it might work?  But only if a new map with new mechanics is added to the game?

[Prolix]

Not exactly no. The stuff about the fence was mostly extraneous, the mechanics already exist and gms would not be absolutely necessary. The nature of the event would be a little different, mass combat instead of individual but the sides could send out their champions one at a time in the heroic ritual combat. This is all moo anyway, "a cow's opinion"