Make sport not war....

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Make sport not war....

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Been playing a lot of Blood Bowl recently, and a thought occurs.

I know they have the required Scottish games in Forlorn, and horsey sports in Nova Vassa, possibly some Sking or dog sledding in Lamordia but has there ever been anything apppoaching a Ravenloft version of the Olympics or even just a Core-wide sport that many different domains practice?

Given that actual armed confrontation rarely ends well for the person who started it, it might be amusing if we saw some of the sort of "displacement" effect where nations vie for gold medals instead of victories on the battlefield at some point in Ravenloft's future.

Of course if Ravenloft domains actually had Blood Bowl teams Richemulots would obviously be the equivalent of Skaven, Sithicus would be Pro Elves, Darkon would be Undead, and Verbrek would be the equivalent of Khorne (ALL OFFENSE, ALL THE TIME! FORGET THE STUPID BALL, DO YOU KNOW WHO FETCHES BALLS? DOGS FETCH BALLS! WE'RE HERE TO MAKE THEM BLEED!) but that's sort of beside the point.

I wonder what sort of sports would appeal to what domains?
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Ideas:

Richemulot

Rat-baiting. Rats in a pit versus a terrier or weasel. It's been outlawed by the rulers on grounds of animal cruelty, but it remains popular among the urban lower orders, as well as aristocrats and burghers out slumming it. Associated with gambling.



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Huh.

I've never done it on an inter-domain level.

But in a domain I made the political elections of a city were contested by maiming teams. Teams of retainers for the different houses sporting maiming rods who fought it out amongst themselves in the street cheered on by the populace. Of course many schemes and plots went on in the background of this.

And for the same domain I've pondered having a domain-wide wrestling tournament between the different cities. With lots of pride and corruption going along with it.

And concurrently a secret tournament, to the death, amongst the more nefarious lords of that realm.

It could certainly be expanded to inter-domain relations too. But where would you hold it to ensure neutrality?
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Boris Drakov wrote:Huh.

I've never done it on an inter-domain level.

But in a domain I made the political elections of a city were contested by maiming teams. Teams of retainers for the different houses sporting maiming rods who fought it out amongst themselves in the street cheered on by the populace. Of course many schemes and plots went on in the background of this.

And for the same domain I've pondered having a domain-wide wrestling tournament between the different cities. With lots of pride and corruption going along with it.

And concurrently a secret tournament, to the death, amongst the more nefarious lords of that realm.

It could certainly be expanded to inter-domain relations too. But where would you hold it to ensure neutrality?
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Resonant Curse wrote:
It could certainly be expanded to inter-domain relations too. But where would you hold it to ensure neutrality?
Necropolis. :wink:
Maybe we should suggest that as an alternative to Rio. ;)
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For some reason I can't shake the idea that, not only does Falkovnia have one hell of a jugger team, but that it's likely the domain's national sport.

(Played the traditional way, of course, impaling an actual dog's skull on a spike, and none of those nancy Mordentish rules about padding...)
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Hazgarn wrote:For some reason I can't shake the idea that, not only does Falkovnia have one hell of a jugger team, but that it's likely the domain's national sport.

(Played the traditional way, of course, impaling an actual dog's skull on a spike, and none of those nancy Mordentish rules about padding...)
Should I know what "jugger" is and should I be afraid based solely on your post, Hazgarn?

Probably a no and yes combination.
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Yeah, yes and no. It's somewhat obscure.

It's from a sci-fi film called The Blood of Heroes (aka Salute of the Jugger), which is basically a post-apocalyptic sports movie. Jugger consists of two teams bashing the heck out of eachother with weapons while a runner from each one fights to control a dog's skull and score by sticking it on a stake at the end of the field. The movie has enough of a cult following that it inspired a few different leagues in real life that play the sport (though naturally with modified rules).
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ah... ala Rollerball
Not every Angel alights the sky with feathery wings of Glory,
Nor every Demon with cloven hoof hunts unwary Quarry.
No, but evil exists in this world and in the hearts of us all,
For let us not forget even the greatest of Angels fell.
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Hazgarn wrote:Yeah, yes and no. It's somewhat obscure.

It's from a sci-fi film called The Blood of Heroes (aka Salute of the Jugger), which is basically a post-apocalyptic sports movie. Jugger consists of two teams bashing the heck out of eachother with weapons while a runner from each one fights to control a dog's skull and score by sticking it on a stake at the end of the field. The movie has enough of a cult following that it inspired a few different leagues in real life that play the sport (though naturally with modified rules).

That movie sounds totally metal!

How did I miss it?

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I added it to my Netflix queue.
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