Here's an idea I came up with last night, but I'd be interested in some feedback and suggestions as to how we could implement it.

I was thinking about ways of making Germania distinctive and of things we could do here to attract "settlers" after the Gold Launch. I never really got into role playing at AS, but it occured to me that real time combat would be popular.

Here's how it could work. We could establish a D&D-style combat system with tables and dice rolls for attacks, armour and damage. I'd set up a post with all the tables etc that people can refer to when generating characters for fighting and for them to use while the combats are on. Then a referee would fix the time for a given fight and we'd use grams or the chat facility to run the combats. The fighters would tell the referee what attacks they want to do, with what weapons, how they are trying to parry blows etc, and the referee would do the dice rolls for them and tell them of the results. Or we could communicate the dice rolls etc via grams, with the referee and combatants posting descriptions of the ongoing action to a thread so that spectators could watch and cheer.

Perhaps we could experiment with it here on the open board until it's working properly, iron out any bugs in the system, and then establish a Germanic group devoted to combat. The group could have historical threads about Germanic warfare and weaponry, a temple to the war god Tiwaz/Tyr and to Wodanaz/Odin for warriors to offer prayers and sacrifice to the gods, a thread for challenges to combat and to organise times for fights, a fan thread for spectators to discuss the combats and combatants, a league table for keeping track of who the current champions are and - of course - an "arena" thread for the fights themselves.

I have a combat system I worked out for historical roleplaying games years ago, which I could simplify a bit and adapt for use here, but I'd like to know if people are interested before I start work on this. It would be good to have some combats as a demonstration during the Gold Launch Germanic festivities to get other AW people interested. And to encourage membership of Germania, we could eventually make the participation in the championships only open to Germania members.

Sound interesting? Let me know.

Cheers,
Thiu