So over here we've been talking about a Gladiators conversion for Contenders.

My sunday group wrapped up the first phase of our Burning Empires campaign just before christmas, so this year we thought we'd play something new. I gave the group a huge list of games I'd be happy running, and they picked Contenders, or more specifically, Gladiators.

So we played our first session last night, pretty much using the rules as written. We replaced Cash with Favour, but left everything else the same.

As usual for our games, we made a wiki for it.

So ever since the thread on the Forge about setting a game of Contenders in Renaissance France with competitive fencing, I've been mulling over an idea for running Contenders set in ancient Rome world with gladiators instead of boxers. I'm planning to run it at Conception, but am wondering whether the game can be run "as is."

The world of the gladiator was very much like the world of Contenders - gladiatorial combat was a sport, after all, albeit a far more brutal sport than boxing. So the basic structure of the game will stay the same, but I think that some consideration needs to be placed on this brutality.