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At this point there will be some rounds that will allow magic and some that won't.

And do you have any suggestions for these numbers?

Still some people may not want to do magic and it could be a fun challenge to have a few rounds where it's not allowed. There could also be brackets to better group the fighters by ability. So we'd have a magic path and a martial path, maybe a few others.

And numbers please.

Are we talking like stats? Or you must take at least 4 hits?

So he meant like d20 stats to give players a sense of where they measure up. I would add that we give them a point pool to spend to get these stats so they are all fairly evenly matched. There may be potential for point awards as they win rounds to improve these stats.

Secondly, persons volunteering to staff the event will be allowed to choose between Noble or Champion status. Nobles are just that, landed nobility of the RP's world. Champions are winners of past Games and may enter as combatants in final rounds. Judges will be Gods. Possibly of the classic Greco-Roman pantheon, possibly of multiple. What do y'all think?

Staff will also get special pretty post formatting templates to help them stand out from the crowd and those templates will include Original Artwork of their character which I will be drawing whenever y'all start giving me descriptions of your characters.

So. . . let's all start describing our characters.

Wow! A lot has happened in this thread since I'd last checked in. I'll just comment on some random things here and there; nudge me if there's anything else where my opinion may be desired.

I like the proposed points awards system!

I'll just take crowd marshal, someone else can be the announcer.
Hurray Umbraja art!! I'll start designing my character now. c:

If we're going to have the point system, which I'm totally behind, I think the most important thing is the marshals and champions having appropriately fleshed out, and diverse characters, that clearly demonstrate the boundaries of the scales. So there should be at least one marshal that has max level in every stat we end up having, then they have more reasonable stat distribution in everything else, maybe a bit higher tier than the players are allowed to be.

We should consider having a more complicated magical stat system, so characters don't just have X ability in magic, maybe they have X ability in Fire magic.

So say there's the main stat, Int or whatever we decide, that defines the total magical ability pool, then they distribute that number of points in as many fields as they can put at least 1 point in. As long as they have a magic pool they'll have the ability to do any basic level magic, but any field they've invested into they can do more complicated and more potent magic. So say they have Int 6 and have invested 4 points in fire, 1 point in healing*, and 1 point in say, thaumically enhanced poems. The character will be quite powerful and moderately well trained with fire, will be able to heal most common injuries, and can seduce all the wenches.

Given it's a ten point scale we're going with for now 5 would be the mid point and investing ten points into a single field would mean they've mastered it; though in this case their character would be otherwise inept because they would have ten points with which to fill everything else. We can of course adjust the magnetude of the scale where maybe 1 level in a field makes them pretty good and 2 makes them pretty great, so players don't have to gimp their character to be decent at magic. The champions would likely be the only characters with 'high' levels in any fields, and the judges would be 10 in everything ever.

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I think it'd be interesting if we could have a representative god from the pantheons of cultures around europe at the general time of the greco-romans (she says as if they were a specific thing). So say, Zeus/Ares, Odin/Loki, and... what's a third pantheon...Ra/Anubis?

you have 20 points but you can only have 10 points in a stat, at least that's how I read what Siber said.

Oh, I forgot the * I placed. There should be a no-healing rule.

I hope the idea can be stated in simpler terms than I have, but the intent is to prevent someone from making a character who is "The Archmage of the Entire Fricken Universe" as TotalBiscuit would say it; by forcing people to specialize their magic a bit. The fields would also be very vague and we'd want to have as few as we can get by with while not limiting characters

Right, no healing In the Fight, out side the fight nobody cares. Though it might be interesting to have the finals/semifinals fought without heals, so characters have to be conservative in their risks, winning the fight at all costs would likely cost them the next fight. Then maybe give them heals for the title fight.

Should we have a MP system as well? Then as they're writing when the character uses a spell they ask us how much it will cost. Seems like it'd get complicated but having magic be a limited quantity during a match would get very interesting.