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Chapter - 1 The Basics

The first thing you need to do is create a character using the standard character sheet and post it on the characters of _____ Thread. You must then set your post title to ‘Ready for <Date>, where date is the next Saturday. If you don’t to this then your character will no be paired and you will not get to fight for that week. Please read further and get to understand the rules before PMing the admin or forum mods. Please read at least up to Chapter 5 before participating, you have been warned if I hear question about anything that was specified in the first 5 chapters, then you will be ignored.

Chapter - 2 The Boards

Most Important Threads - Read First
There are a number of threads in ___ Coliseum, but the main important ones are the ‘Characters of ___’ thread and the pairing threads where the battles take place. In the Characters of ____ thread the character sheets for each character in the Coliseum is posted and must be regularly updated to show the exact status of your character after each fight, level up and etc. The pairing threads are always titled with the name of the two or sometimes more characters that are fighting and these people are to post in turn detailing what they do for each turn of their battle. Other threads are listed below and a little less important but they all play a part.

Fights Thread
The fights thread gives a listing of all the people who have character who were assigned as ready by the rules detailed above for the characters thread , every character that had their date ready for a pairing are shown here with who is fighting who or what and each has a link to the fight, only the people assigned to the fight or referees (more about them later)\ are allowed to post in these places.

Prison Thread
This is where things get a little more complicated, but if you follow the rules to begin with you won’t have to bother with this thread. Any characters in the Characters thread that are wrong in some way, whether their hp is added up wrong or their ability scored a too high or a variety of others things that will be detailed later will be posted on the first post of this as having a yellow violation. At this point they are still allowed to fight but are advised to fix the problem as soon as possible. If the problem isn’t solved in a week they are moved to a red violation and are pulled out of fights and cannot fight again or participate in ___ coliseum until they fix the problem. It is a referee’s job to find these problems in people’s character sheets and post them in this thread, detailing the problem they must then send a PM to the person responsible and provide a link to that post. People who have violated must post that they have fixed the problem and then they will be taken off the violation roster.

Credit Thread
This thread lists everyones current amount of credits, which is essentially Coliseum Currentcy.

Market Thread
This is where custom made items that people want to see apear. You post here with a proposal of a custom item you would like to see made, for actual use in the Coliseum. If your item is accepted you are charged 1 credit and your post stays in the thread, If you item isn't accepted then your post is deleted. People may shop here for items to use but must pay an additional credit for each purchase.

Tales of ____ Thread
This is where stories relating to a setting that is going to slowly be created on this forums.

Chapter 3 - People

There a variety of people with different jobs who are to manage the boards an make sure they run smoothly, even people who are just players should know of these people. If you are one of these people with a certain job in the ___ coliseum you will be given a special tag to put in your sig official stating you as having that job.

GM - this is the overall master of the coliseum and handles a little bit of every job, this is Setzertrancer.
Referee - a referee is someone who helps to run operation in the coliseum and have a variety of jobs, firstly if they see that a mistake has been made in a pairing thread, such as a mistake with 3.5 rules, they have permission to post and ensure that the fight continues fairly, secondly they are required to skim through character sheets and see if they can find any mistakes with addition, class features etc. for which they then follow the rules specified in the Prison thread info above.

That is all for now, but more roles will be required as the forums and _____ Coliseum grows larger.

Chapter 4 - Acceptable material

I will allow just about any D&D source to be used in character creation and etc. But just to specify, they must be 3.5, not 3e and definitely not unofficial material. However there are exceptions that will arise as their inappropriateness become evident, this means anything that is too powerful or is just too much of a cheeky cheap shot. I’m am going to trust Core Coliseum’s experience and state some exceptions straight from their rules. Also variant rules can only be used if they just allow more choice, not if they change to way the game works al together. On top of that variant rule from the Unearth Arcana or anywhere else requires credits, so does any material other then, Players Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, Monster Manual, The Four Completes, The Races of books and the Spell Compedium. Credits will be explained later.

Banned Features:

Gate spell in all it’s forms

Chapter 5 - Getting Started

You must read this before starting your first coliseum fight

Creating a Character
First you must make a copy of this standard character sheet and fill in your details for your character before submitting it to the Characters of ___ Thread.

Level and Exp
All characters start at level 3, however you may also have a level adjustment race of up to two which would effectively make you level 1 as a +2 lvl adjustment race. You may also start as a race with a higher level adjustment then that, but this requires 5 credits per additional lvl adjustment and you still start a level 1. You may also start at any number of level higher then 3 at a cost of 5 credits per additional level.

Ability Scores
Use standard 36-point buy (DMG, page 169). Here are the costs for all ability scores:

An ability score of 8 costs 0 points.
An ability score of 9 costs 1 point.
An ability score of 10 costs 2 points.
An ability score of 11 costs 3 points.
An ability score of 12 costs 4 points.
An ability score of 13 costs 5 points.
An ability score of 14 costs 6 points.
An ability score of 15 costs 8 points.
An ability score of 16 costs 10 points.
An ability score of 17 costs 13 points.
An ability score of 18 costs 16 points.

Hit Points
There is no rolling for hitpoints instead all characters get a slightly above average amount based on the hp amounts per level shown below. Characters get max hp on their first level.

1d4 = 2.5 hps
1d6 = 3.5 hps
1d8 = 4.5 hps
1d10 = 5.5 hps
1d12 = 6.5 hps

Gold
All characters starting at level 3 start with 3000 gp, this can be spend on anything in the books on chapter 4 and it’s cost 1 credit per item purchased from outside of these sources. If you use credits to start at a higher level you also start with more gold. You may also craft your own unique items at a negotiable credit cost.

Confirmation
After you have created your character posted your character on the Characters thread, and set the date in your post title to the next Saturday, send a PM to the GM and you will be added to the roster listing in the Fights thread, there you find out who you will be fighting and on which map (explained later) and so then you or your opponent can start a thread to get your fight underway. Note: make sure to check if your opponent has already made a thread before starting one of your own, another thing that can happen is you can get a monster fight, in which case you fight a random monster controlled by the GM, if this happens the GM will make the thread himself.

Number of Characters
Each person may have any number of characters, however only 3 may be active and participate in fights at a time. Credit points can be spent to have more then 3 active characters as well.

Character Actions
Now it gets a little more complicated, but cool. You may if you choose specify a full or free activity for your character to do. To do so as well as writing the date for the next Saturday you also writing in [these] an activity or use of a skill and how much gp or whatever else it earns you A Full activity means you forgo fighting that week to spend a lot more time either crafting, working a profession or a variety of other things specified later in skills. A free activity doesn’t cost you any time and still allows you to fight for the week, but obviously won’t get you as much money or bonuses from skill activities. So it is best to use a free activity whenever you can anyway. More on what activities actually do later.

Time progression
In ____ time is continually passing so there is obviously a limit for which each week’s fight can go for all fights are posted on Saturday and every one have until Friday night to finish their fights and update their character sheets and remember to write their new fight date and activity in their post title. If anyone hasn’t updated their character sheets by whenever on Saturday the fight pairings are posted by the GM it is too late and you miss fighting that week. So have it done by Friday night +8 GMT.

Chapter 6 - Staring reference

This table shows the starting experience points and gold for characters of each level

Chapter 7 - Skills and Feats

Skills are the part of D&D 3.5 that are changed to most in this ____ coliseum, they are changed to provide additional ways these skills can be useful and battle and many of them also take advantage of the free and full activity system.

Free Activities
The following are some things you can do with different combinations of skills during a free activity.

Rob store
If you have 5 ranks or more in Sleight of Hand and Open lock you can obtain an expendable item for the duration of you next fight up to the value of Sleight of Hand x Open Lock.

Burglary
If you have a open lock skill higher then your opponent’s ECL+5 or his open lock value whichever is higher and Search skill. You can remove an expendable item with a value of Search x ECL Multiplyer (see table below) from their character sheet for the duration of the next fight. You cannot use this item and it is returned to your opponent at the end of the fight.

Guard
This is used to protect against burglary, a character guarding assigns a trap to his or her equipment which goes off unless the burgler is able to succeed on a disable trap check. The burgler will start off with whatever status the trap left them in the next fight if they fail and they won’t steal an item.

Discount
If you have at least 5 ranks in Appraise, Bluff and Sense Motive you can gain a % discount on one purchased item equal to the average of these 3 skills. You cannot use this for raw materials or material components

Sell Items
If you have 5 ranks in Appraise and Gather Information you can sell one item with a % bonus in value equal to the lowest of these two skills

Chapter 8 - Battles

This is an important chapter you need to read before you start fighting anyone. After you have created a character you then need to waiting until you are paired. After being paired you may open a thread to begin your fight against your opponent. The way you layout of own thread to depict the battle is up to you, just make sure make it clear and easy to understand for both players and keep updates of hp and other status on your posts.

Starting Positions
Each character can choose a starting position within the starting blocks shown on the map, two players cannot start in the same starting block except with a few exceptions such as guild fights and team fights. Here are some rules for starting block conditions.

1. The starting block does not provide any cover or concealment and is only a line drawn on the ground.
2. Characters who can fly may start the fight doing so, but must still start at 0 altitude.
3. Characters may start on their mount and have an item in each hand.
4. Allies must start in the same starting block as their owners

Fight Types

Normal Duel
The most common type of fight is a normal one on one fight between 2 paired characters, a pairing looks like this on the fights thread.

Abunus the Quick [ECL3] (Player 1) vs. Fred the Big [ECL3] (Player 2) [Arena]

The [Arena] is where the battle is taking place, on what map, this is randomly determined by the GM. and [ECL3] shows the challenge rating of the character, all normal duels will have the same ECL between the two characters. The Brackets () contain the forum name of the the character's owner

Inter-League Fight
Uncommon fight which means the fight will involve mixed CRs and have a variety posible amount of characters against another, so it can be similar to a team fight but can sometimes be 3 weaker characters against 1 strong one etc. The reward obtained from the larger number beating the lower number is divided.

Abunus the Quick [ECL3] (Player 1) and Fred the Big [ECL3] (Player 2) vs. Tauran the Strong [ECL5] (Player 3) [City]

Team Fight
A team fight involves two sets of characters that have been divided into teams to fight each other as a group, this can be a minimum of 4 people and a maximum of 8. Guild fights are essentially a team fight.

All on All Fight
an all on all fight is a 4 character free for all all fight. The overall winner gets the biggest prize and the 2nd placer get a bit less and so on, determined by the following list.

1st gets Winner Rewards, plus 1 loser reward for every opponent
2nd gains Loser Rewards, plus 1 loser reward for every opponent -1.
3rd gains Loser Rewards, plus 1 loser reward for every opponent -2.
4th gains Loser Rewards only.

Hunter Fight
A hunter fight is any fight with 3 players and has special rules compared to an all on all fight. Each of the 3 characters in a hunter fight is assigned with someone the need to kill which is determined by the order they are shown

Abunus the Quick [ECL3] (Player 1) -> Fred the Big [ECL3] (Player 2) -> Tauran the Strong [ECL3] (Player 3) -> [City]

So in this example Abunus the Quick needs to kill Fred, Fred needs to kill Tauran and Tauran needs to kill Abunus. If any of the 3 kill thier target first they instantly win and battle is over awarding a winner award to the winner and a loser award to both other characters. If the Winner also kills the wrong target he gets an extra loser award.

Mercenary Fight
In the Mercenary thread there are a list of NPC character created by the GM. sometimes instead of being paired with another player you can be pair with one of these NPCs which will apear like this

Abunus the Quick [ECL3] (Player 1) vs. Biggord the Bandit [ECL3] (Mercenary) [Arena]

If this occurs you can look up the character in the in the Mercenary thread and then start a thread when you are ready for the fight and the GM will join as the Mercenary. Also you may use 1 credit to fight a mercenary of your choice (same ECL only) therefore being able to set up a fight yourself against someone you are strong against and getting an easy win.

Challenge Fight
you may request to fight another character, first PM the player of that character and see if they agree, if they do you then PM the GM about and you also need to specify you are in a challenge fight as an additional reminder to the GM. Then when pairings are done it will be paired the way you wanted it for you. You may also force someone to fight you for 5 credits.

Monster Fight
You may sometimes not get paired and end up fighting a random monster controlled by the GM. If this happend you pairing will look like this

Abunus the Quick [ECL3] (Player 1) vs Random Monster [Arena]

You will not know what the random monster until the fight begins unless you have knowledge skills, in that case look up Chapter 7: Skills and Feats under Knowledge to see what you need to do.

Title Lines Very Important
This is the most important rule of all, you must always update your character sheet's subject title to say that you are ready for the next battle at the designated date as shown in the example below. the Month and day is always to be the next saturday, on which pairings will be assigned. Fight # is also important to include and is explained under the next heading.

Ready For (Month\Day) [Fight #] (free activity)

If you do not update your subject title you miss out on fighting at all for that week and don't even get to do a full activity, so be careful.

3 Fight Cycle
Also important to know is that fights happen in cycles of 3. Which means after you have your first fight, you will not regain your HP, nor any of your spells or class abilities. The only thing you can do within a 3 fight cycle is update your inventory and what you start with in your hand. Using a healing spell before your next fight is counted as your one prebuff spell per fight, this is explained under the next heading. Only after you have been through 3 fights no matter how long it took do you get to rest for however long it takes to be fully recovered.

Prebuffs
Before a battle begins you may cast one of any spell you want with any casting time to start the battle with. Drinking a potion counts a a prebuff as well. Only one prebuff is allowed before each fight.

Aftermath
After a fight is finished there are a number of things you need to do before the next pairing or else you miss out on fighting the next week.

1. Deduct Expendibles: If you used any expendible items such as potions or wand you have to go to you character sheet and move them from your inventory to your past expenditures.
2. Mark off used abilities or spells: If you used up any spells, spell slots or abilities during the fight you need to go to your character sheet and mark them in RED. If it is an ability with a limited of uses per day such as Rage 3/day instead of marking it red instead put a red set of brackets and the number of uses you've used inside it, example, Rage 3/day (1). If you've used all three mark it red like this Rage 3/day.
3. Check Buffs: If you finished your battle with the effects of buffs still active then they carry on in the next battle, but with +4 rounds added to their used duration, put this in you character sheet, so others know that you'll be starting with these effects.
4. Add Rewards: Update your amount of gold and and Experience earned from the fight. Remember however that you may only purchase or sell any new items at the end of your 3 fight cycle. So only when your next fight would be fight 1 in this cycle.
5. Level Up: If you gained enough experience to level up then do so. However keep in mind that all lost HP and used abilities and spells stay used up, You will gain your extra hit die and con modifier and you will only gain abilities that you got with the level up so if you had 3 uses of rage but used them all up and then gained another use of rage in your level, then you get to use that one extra rage only, not the 3 you already used. If your spellcaster prepares spells then they do not obtain their new spells from the level until the end of the 3 fight cycle. If you are lucky enough to level up at the end of your 3 fight cycle then you get to rest and gain all your used features.
7. Buy new Equipment: Only availible if this is the end of your 3 fight cycle. You may buy and sell items and update your inventory.

Rewards

Experience Point Rewards

If you win the fight, you get an XP reward based on your own and your oppnent's [glossary=Effective Character Level]ECL[/glossary], according to the following table (see DMG, page 3 Cool

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If you lose the fight, you get only 1/3 of the XP you would have gotten if you had won it. Also, you can never get more XP than 100 * (your current ECL) by losing a fight. For example, if you are ECL 12 and you lose against an ECL 15 gladiator, you should gain (10,800/3) = 3,600 XP. However, the rule limiting XP in case of a loss cuts that down to 1,200 XP gained.

Chapter 9 - Battles, Advanced

Delay Penalties and Leaving the Map
There is a limit on how long you are allowed to do something that causes you you leave the map or be in any way completely unreachable by the other player, This includes flying over 400ft up, melding into stone and any other similar effects. You may only do anything like this for a maximum of 10 rounds before you must engage your opponent for the rest of the battle.

House Rules for ready actions
You cannot take a free 5ft step as part of your ready action.
A ready action must be specifically defined. There must be a concrete trigger and a concrete action.
You cannot ready to auto-negate an incoming attack by avoidance (eg. move out of range or sight, dodge/move behind total cover, any defensive form that renders the attack impossible). For example, you can still negate a spell by countering it because you are actively doing it.
Example: Valid ready actions would be...
...ready my bow vs spellcasting/manifesting
...ready my longspear against a charge
...ready to cast resist fire on a (fire) spell
...ready to sunder his weapon once in reach
...ready to manifest energy ray on pinpointing (vs invisibility)
If it is unclear wether a certain ready action should be allowed or not, the Referee has the final say in it.

Map Environments
Some maps in our selection are adaptive to the characters fighting on them. The environmental specifics of these maps can change to fit the gladiators fighting in it; it always does its best to be as beneficial to both gladiators as possible. If one gladiator wants to burrow, then the earth is loose enough to allow burrowing. If, on the other hand, a gladiator wants to Meld into Stone, then he can assume any part of the Arena to be made of stone. If a light breeze would be helpful to either party, then there is a light breeze.

Naturally, common sense should always be used: just because one character is a Merfolk, the Arena will not be flooded with water. These environmental bonuses should always be minor, and never actively hostile to the other gladiator. The maps that have these features are specified in the Map Thread.

Character Death and Destroyed Equipment

Because ___ is an enchanted city any character that dies within it's walls are instantly resurrected, of cause if they die in battle then they lose the fight. Same applies to equipment, if any equipment is destroyed it is repaired within seconds. Of cause it remains unusable for the remainer of the battle.

Chapter 10 - Credits

Credits are special point that are awarded to people and they enable extra features and Privileges that can be purchased just like it is money. Credit are earned for several reasons. Firstly for being helpful in making the Coliseum run smoothly, by helping people with thier characters, supervising fights and spotting and fixing mistakes within the Coliseum forum. All showing yourself to be a dedicated member and participating in the game a lot. Consider this currency for performing help jobs in this forum.

Here is a list of all the ways you can earn credits.

1. Being a referee = 1 credit a week
2. Supervising a fight as a referee = 1 credit per fight
3. Write a story about ___ to help create a detailed history, 2 credits for a short story, if it's good. I suppose I'll award 20 credits if anyone wants to write a novel.
4. You report on mistakes on other peoples character sheets and report on them to the prison thread and send the offender a PM. = 0.1 credits per mistake.
6. You post a map on the map thread, reward depends on quality and usefulness.
7. You get 2 credits on your birthday, make sure you PM Setzertrancer to recieve them.
8. Being an active player, you earn 1 credit for each fight you participate in
9. Being a GM earns you 2 credits a week.
10. If you notice anything like a spelling mistake or inconsitancy in the Rules Thread or other important thread made by Setzertrancer, you get 0.5 of a credit per mistake pointed out.

To get the credits you need to PM Setzertrancer or other GMs and show a link or any other kind of evidence to where your deed lies and it will be added to the credit thread as soon as posible.

Here is a list of ways you can spend credits.

Active Characters
You may have more then 3 characters active to participate in fights this week, 1 credit per additional character

Challenge
You can fight a specific Character this week, they have to agree with your challenge and you need to pay 1 credit.

Forced Fight
You can force a specific Character to fight you this week and they cannot refuse. This costs 5 credits.

Mercenary Fight
You can fight a chosen Mercenary, of same ECL as you. 1 credit.

Change Alignment
You can change your alignment, each step away from your current alignment that you want to take costs 2 credits.

Create Item
You may design your own item to add to the Market Thread, if the GM agrees with your item and you pay 1 credit. If you want to pay the item you still have to pay gold and another credit.

Custom Item
You may buy a custom made item in the market thread for 1 credit and it's gold cost.

Higher Entry
You may start a new character at a higher level then 3, each level above 3 costs 5 credits.

Exotic Races
You may start as an exotic race, meaning +3 Level adjustment or higher, because this effectively starts you at a higher level. 5 credits for each Lvl Adj over 2.

Start a Guild
You may start a Guild for 10 credits. Guilds are detailed in the next chapter.

Exotic sources
You may use a D&D source other then the ones listed in the rules, under appropriate material. Not everything is availible however, anything that gives you a definate unfair advantage is not allowed, such as Gesthalt characters. 1 credit per source. You also need to PM me the Source name
and page number and wait for me to reply before you can use it.

To use these credits you need to PM a GM and tell them that you are using the credits for the desired effect and they will be deducted from your total in the Credit Thread. If you are using credits to fight a particular opponent make sure you say so in your subject title.

Chapter 11 - Guilds