Sanctified by Dreams
Was hoping another tournament would open the way everyone was talking, but it's looking like I'll just have to wait for HOH '13.
I want to do a tournament with a focus on melee weapons, but that would not be until the Summer if anything. Or I dunno, sooner if I have lots of help.
Which is rather relevant the whole discussion. I'd make a disclaimer that a participant can certainly enter with an unarmed character, but powers (particularly ranged abilities) will be to a minimum so they're probably going to have a bad time.
So it seems like it will be a pretty niche thing, but I also like swordsmanship and there seem to be a good few who also enjoy poking things with pointy implements. Or axes. Or whatever.
Of course I'd be running/judging, but I've always wanted to enter a swordy character in these things but I do find it's... well, going against someone unarmed I feel like a d**k. Because they have to work for a good hit, but, really.. if I wanted to get technical, well within the realm of logic, I could say they're pretty well ******** unless they do have nifty arm guards or something.
I also want to use said tournament to experiment a little with some of the typical paradigms, but I might put that to a poll if a majority of participants want the same old formula in these past tournaments...