PVP Tournament Interest Check aka Battlezone Apocalypse 9000?


Recruitment


Hello board peoples. I've been feeling the need to stretch my creative urges lately, but I don't have the time to dedicate to creating/maintaining another traditional pathfinder campaign from scratch, and I don't feel drawn to any of the modules I have. But, I think I could manage to oversee a PVP tournament.

This would be pure PVP battles, whatever roleplaying would be built into your posts, and some brief inter-fight social encounters. I'm thinking I would start with eight characters (4 teams of two, randomly assembled from the chosen characters), and do a double elimination tournament. The first battle would be 4 vs 4 capture the flag (or until all are unconscious on one team). First team to hold the flag for a couple rounds wins and gets a boon in their first real fight. After that we use a tournament bracket. The top three winners get a reward (Gold, Silver, Bronze), and go on to have a fight against a mega-boss monster. After that, it ends.

For character creation I really want to open it up. I want this to essentially be a alien reality TV show on a holodeck on a space station somewhere. They pull beings from all the planes to fight in their arenas for entertainment. This means you can create a character from anywhere, any fantasy type setting (basically).

I'm offering any class on d20pfsrd.com, up to 20 RP custom races, 20 point buy, level 6 characters, two traits, standard WBL, average HP (1/2 HD+1+con). This includes 3rd party content. No technology beyond Golarion's. No copywrited materials/intellectual properties other than Golarion/Pathfinder. So if you want to make something up, cool. If you want to play something from your favorite novel, no. I'm looking for creativity, good ideas, not fan fiction.

I do reserve the right to veto anything too ridiculous. I want these to be interesting fights, not "Hey look I found this invincible build." So something like AM barbarian is out.

The idea would be to level up after each fight, going from 6 to 12 (if you win). Only the teams in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will be alive at the end.

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Mechanically, I will be making all the rolls, and all weapons and spells will do average damage. Each fight will have its own thread.

I will roll initiative for everyone, whichever character is highest, their team goes first and then the other team in blocks. You will describe actions and then I will execute them. I will require you to create macros (I can explain how when necessary) in your alias of all your attacks/commonly used spells to make this workable. Attacks will still be rolled to hit, saving throws still rolled as normal. I will use maps to represent the various arenas.

This is an attempt to prevent rules arguments from breaking out due to the PVP nature of the game. I will run rules as written as clarified by FAQs and the Rules Questions forum. If I can't find an answer for something I will make a personal call, and you will abide by it or be disqualified. If I make a mistake, and the rules back you, say so. We'll work it out.

So, that's all I can think of for now. Anyone interested?


I may well be, but I'll need some time to consider what to make. Love your stuff, Jelani, and I hope to get involved in this once I have a good idea!


Yeah since this is definitely a weird game, and the options available to players are vast, I'm guessing it will be slow to start if at all. If enough people don't show interest it won't happen, but in the meantime you can think about a character.


Is it not making your own rolls that has people not interested in this, or is PVP really that unpopular? Or perhaps the wide open range of character options is too much?

Dark Archive

interested.


I don't think it'd be PvP, seeing as so many little PvP arenas are springing up right now. I think the pure array of options might be causing some analysis paralysis--people may not be sure what they'd want to play, so they're hesitant to even post in with interest?

I personally don't mind the rolls. They're all computerized on here, anyway.


Okay, lets do this then.

Instead of all 3rd party stuff, Paizo only.

You can still make up your own world if you want, or use Golarion. Can still make custom races, or use any that are 20 RP or less.

It's not going to be purely PVP, as I think that's pretty boring. Especially 1 vs 1 PVP.

You'll have a teammate. In some of the fights there will be other goals besides just "kill the other team". Capture the flag, king of the hill, maybe throw in a neutral monster that wants to kill everyone. Each arena would be different shaped, with different advantages/disadvantages.

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