by roanispe Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:59 pm
I personally think you need look at your rules, and consequences of them; you won't need so many if you spend sometime, and think about what each ban means. I'd honestly say that you will have much more success if you bring something unique to the table, compared to other Fight Clubs. I'd suggest perhaps a SL60 one, and at that Soul Level, I think you'd only need to say no to Elemental Weapons to see a radical difference in playstyle from what would normally occur. Every point would have to be spent much more carefully, and single stat weapons (especially Strength for the x1.5 two-handing bonus) would be much more prevalent. However that is just an off-the-wall suggestion, but I still think you really need to consider the skill level of the players you are trying to attract, and what rules would be implicit and explicit.
When you simply say: "No Hornet, No Masks, SL60 at the Lower Burg" most people wouldn't think of bringing a Tranquil Walk of Peace and Wrath of Gods toon. While you have only explicitly said 3 rules, it implies a sort of casual, for fun environment. Comparatively, being unable to list the rules in a single line seems to force someone to conform to a single build; even though almost no one would bring an Ultra-Greatsword to a No-Poise Fight Club, they feel like they are being told not bring what they want to bring, but instead what you want them to bring. You should try to make as few explicit rules as possible by considering the implicit ones.
E.g You want to make less backstabs occur in a fight: you could ban slower weapons, make backstabs harder to do, or just outright ban them. Now, people don't like their weapons being chosen for them, so let's ignore that option. To make backstabs harder, you could make it easier to stagger an attempt, or harder to correctly space. You could go "No Poise", or "No DWGR", respectively. No Poise comes with a lot a lot of implications, too many for me to be bothered to deal with right now, and banning backstabs comes with a lot of unintended consequences. If you just want there to be less backstabs, just say no DWGR, and it will happen.