Glamorous-Gladiators

Glamorous Gladiators

A distortion dice game of unusual warriors fighting for glory, vengeance, honor, or justice, and looking good doing it.

See the Character Page for character creation rules.

As a distortion dice game, you take an action by first selecting a stat and adding the relevant die to your pool, while the GM adds the associated harm die to their pool. Then each of you add in relevant aspects and assets to increase your odds, and spend Spark for a temporary boost if you want. Then both you and the GM roll your dice pools and keep the highest die. If your die is higher, that’s a success, if you win by 5 or more that’s a critical success, if you tie that’s a success with consequences, and if your dice is lower you lose. A loss means taking harm, which means that your harm track goes up, or your asset gets damaged and the die is lowered.

• Force: Used when your Gladiator needs brute strength or is using a very direct approach
• Focus: Used to figure out complex situations, or when you want to apply knowledge that would help you
• Finesse: Used when you need precision or speed.
• Fire: Used when your character needs great willpower or determination, like channling unknown magic or rushing through a flurry of illusionary attacks.

Your fighting style aspect is used only when you are able to fight in your ideal conditions. If you have to change tactics or fight in unusual conditions, you must spend Spark to use it. Special techniques can be magic spells, power ups, complex movements, enhanced attacks, etc. Notably they can allow you to attack outside of your normal range with your full weapon die.

Inspiration and Advancement will be Spark and Stride

Scenarios:

• Part of an organization protecting this realm from beings of the spirit realm
• In a school for empowered people
• A team of reluctant allies fighting against certain doom
• Transported to another world and fighting to find your way back home
• A crew looking for something powerful that may not exist
• Powers started awakening and the world is in chaos
• The World Ended and you’re fighting to survive
• You are selected by ancient beings as protectors and they bestow you with tremendous power
• You pilot specialized machines in order to protect the world
• A corrupting evil force has descended upon a once peaceful land, and you answer the call to fight it
• In a dangerous land where people live in protected settlements, you are a team that leaves to gather supplies and trade with other cities

4 weapon ranges: close/melee, reach, projectile, long(sniper)

Each weapon has a preferred range (sometimes multiple). Attacking from that range grants you the full asset die. For each band outside of the weapons preferred range, the die is lowered by one, down to a minimum of d4. Most weapons cannot be used to attack at a range longer than their preferred range.

If someone is engaged with you in combat, and they are not in your range, you have to make a roll to approach them. To help with this, you may have special techniques, you may use scene assets that act as cover or give you unusual movement options, and you can also create an asset for yourself or an ally to use as a distraction or to help them move more quickly.

Rough guide to ranges:

• Close: fist fighting range. Right next to your opponent
• Reach: Spear or two handed sword range. A few steps from your opponenet
• Projectile: Thrown weapons, meteor hammer, or shotgun range. Across the room from your opponent
• Long: Crossbow or Sniper Rifle range. Down the street or further from your opponent