Cool Fight Locations

A list of locations that would be excellent for set-piece battles, fights, and conflicts of all kinds. No more 10' by 10' rooms.

Locations[edit]

Indoors[edit]

In the catwalks above a stage, with the opera/play in progress below.
Inside the works of a clock tower
In the Great Library of Alexandria as it's being burned
In a wharf side warehouse, in a roped-off ring, surrounded by dozens of hard-nosed spectators screaming for blood
In elevator shafts, but not in the elevators
On a series of conveyor belts leading to pressing machinery
Between the gears and pulleys of a four-story-building-sized clockwork, steam-driven difference engine
On top of the servers in a major data center (while one of the combatants is trying to hack into the systems in that center)
A meat locker, with entire sides of frozen cow hanging from hooks.
In a cubicle farm (think Dilbert)
In the food court of a large shopping mall, Sunday afternoon, one week before Christmas
In a high voltage transformer station
In a brick-walled olive oil cellar - when one of the casks is struck, olive oil coats the floor
In an airlock that's slowly decompressing
In a stopped elevator
On a stone staircase in a rapidly falling apart castle
On the floor of a large ballroom after the villain has insulted the hero – remember those floors are slick
Fort Knox (Think 007)
In a smithy filled with blades
In a house about to be blown to pieces by a tornado- with a shelter out back with room for one
In a dragon's lair...right next to sleeping dragon.
In a studio prop department. (make sure to grab your REAL sword)
In a game & comic store
On a factory conveyer belt that dumps rocks into a furnace
In a hospital emergency room that is in the process of accepting dozens of victims from some sort of disaster
Backstage at a Victoria's Secret fashion show
At a Hockey/Ice Rink
In a biotech lab filled with glass growth reactors filled with animal cells/bacteria/yeast/flesh eating amoebas
In the middle of 99 cent store with crowded isles only a foot and a half wide.
In a brothel / opium den
Inside a wind-tunnel
In the middle of a high class 1930s nightclub
On the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange
In a nuclear missile silo about to launch
In a room full of hemophiliacs
In a paper mill
In a museum. Lots of improvised weapons to hand, whether it's a 15th century scimitar or the tooth of a Tyrannosaurus
At a fantasy / sci-fi convention
At a crowded party, without letting security know
In an Esher-esque construction of stairs, halls, and archways that warps space
In a Wax Museum after hours
At a rave
In a ghetto bail-bonds/pawn shop
During a high school gym class
At a christening
Lovers fighting in a huge canopied bed with dozens of pillows and silk sheets
In the bathtub or at a Roman bath-house
In the shrine of a forgotten/elder god who is starting to wake
In a crypt full of life-size, realistic warrior statues, which may or may not come to life.
While standing side by side at a urinal...while urinating!
In the Oval Office, the floor of the UN general assembly, or other location of political importance
In an ancient tomb, rife with treasure and booby traps
Through an intricate Ninja Turtles style sewer system, perhaps on skateboards
In a workout room, with all the machines and free-weights as weapons
In a plane that's going down
In a broken down house at night
Fighting in a pitch black room which fires lasers occasionally

Outdoors[edit]

On a frozen river, with chunks of ice breaking away under your feet.
Construction scaffolding.
A flotilla of logs floating down a river.
On top of a careening stagecoach, in a low-overhang forest.
On top of a large hot-air balloon, in mid-flight.
Top of a church tower where there's only a narrow walkway around the top. (Swinging off statues of angels and slamming people into bells.)
Waist-deep in a stream
On a thread-bare rope bridge spanning a chasm
Hanging onto the ropes that dangle beneath a zeppelin (which may or may not be on fire)
In the midst of deadlocked rush-hour traffic, leaping from car to car
On a flat-bed semi traveling down the interstate at 90 mph
On a rocky precipice overlooking a fall of hundreds of feet
Inside the big cage where they store helium balloons
On a rowboat
In the back seat of a New York taxicab during rush hour
In the middle of a big parade (maybe Mardi Gras, or perhaps the marching band at halftime at the Super Bowl?)
On a dam
In a ship's rigging
In a bamboo forest, about fifty feet up
On top of a mist-shrouded hill, surrounded by the crumbling remnants of a stone circle
In a sheep pen with about 100 sheep (substitute pigs as required)
On the back of a flying whale. And every so often it spouts a geyser of steam from its blowhole.
On the surface of a huge, faceted mirrored lens so there are thousands of distorted images of you and your opponent.
On dragonfly mounts that buzz around one another...
In a cage-free commercial chicken rearing factory
In a hedgerow maze
On a Ferris Wheel
On a seaside boardwalk during a hurricane
Underwater while wearing clumsy diver suits
A knife fight in a telephone booth (and you HAVE to answer the phone.)
On the edge of a burning, active volcano
On the roof of a burning sky scraper
On the wing of a B-17 Flying Fortress
In a gassed out mud filled body strewn WWI trench
On a super-highway
Up a gigantic tree, with lots of hopping from branch to branch
On a grassy plain in the middle of a stampede
From rooftop to rooftop in a flooded town
An open field with snow 4 feet deep
In the surf at a stormswept beach, with heavy waves
In the substructure beneath a huge bridge
Inside a submarine
On a sweltering August day in a full-grown Kansas cornfield
On top of a giant Godzilla-style monster.
On top of a careening coach while riding over a bridge 10 miles above a city
Atop a burning citadel while meteorites fall all around
While skydiving
On the open observation deck of a gigantic steam-powered zeppelin, suspended a thousand feet above the streets of a major city
On skis, hurtling down the side of a snow-covered mountain.
NOT on skis, hurtling down the side of an ICE-covered mountain
On a roller coaster
While flying hang gliders
Beneath a waterfall, struggling to stay on your feet under the torrent of pounding water
On rafts, going over the waterfall
In the hulk of a ghostly pirate ship or ocean liner
In the water gardens of Ft. Worth, TX
On a school bus full of little children
Jumping from piece to piece of wreckage as it's being sucked into a huge whirlpool
A train station. Clouds of steam, huge machines to fight across and lots of civilians running around
In a Topiary Maze tended by big robotic hedge trimmers that look like the Langoliers from the Stephen King novel
On two really elastic bungie cords
While on motorcycles
On the Boxers' Bridge in Venice, standing over a canal with no guard rails in place
In the Capuchin necropolis in Paris, surrounded by walls of skulls.
Inside a tram going downhill in San Francisco
Queuing for cinema tickets. (Don’t lose your place in line.)
A horse track just after the race has gone by, with a minute and a half until it swings by again!
Riding horses on the beach
In front of the grave of your twin brother that the murderous swine slew one exactly year ago
A ferry in high wind, with cars or heavy crates rolling around
In the desert at high noon (heat prostration anyone?) while a sandstorm is coming
At a witch-burning, climbing up the unnecessarily huge pyre
On the back of a giant turtle that is swimming through a swamp full of alligators & with snakes dangling from the heavy vines
On top of a hill during a thunderstorm
While being lynched
In chariots, especially when running along the spar of the enemies chariot
On top of monolithic statues depicting your ancestors/nation (The Statue of Liberty, the statues by the falls in Fellowship of the Ring.)
On the hands of Big Ben
On top of a careening cart (designed for fast travel and drawn by magically bred horses) that falls off a cliff to land the players on a magically propelled train (a.k.a lightning rail; see Eberron Campaign Setting)
On the top of a moving train
At the bottom of a stopped train (crouch fighting)
In the middle of a sandstorm
In a hay cart going high speeds down a hill while getting shot from harpoons coming from above

Wacky Situations[edit]

Under direct, heavy cannon bombardment.
On a merry-go-round
Anywhere at all during an earthquake
Running concurrently with another swordfight, such that each of the four combatants wants to kill the other three
In the city's slums during a massive fire
In the middle of a riot
Quicksand
In the path of a massive horde of army ants
Near a strong gravitational or magnetic source, the swords accelerating or decelerating as they pass near it
While having sex
While handcuffed or otherwise bound to another swordfighter
In front of a confused movie crew while the asst director complains about his script missing pages or "this is a romance!"
During a motorcycle race (horse race, chariot race, etc)
On the sanctioned dueling grounds of a local Mage's guild, DURING a full-scale mage's duel
Last men standing on a battlefield (weapons, corpses, and setting sun mandatory, undead optional)
Inside a transport container getting crushed in a giant hydraulic press
Atlantis as it's sinking
At the center of the earth (trying to stop a bomb from going of at earths core)
In a crashed plane slowly submerging in water and oxygen is slowly depleting
In the middle of heavy fog, being attacked by multiple enemies
In or on top of an unfinished building (tower,castle house or otherwise)

Other[edit]

On Mars, while wearing space suits, in low gravity
Inside someone else's blood vessels, while shrunk to microscopic size
Below-decks in a burning, sinking ship
The tunnels of a large subway system
Inside the chambers of a dying giant's heart
On a teetering see-saw platform over something dangerous
Atop the pistons of some great machine
On a suspended cage with the damsel in distress within
In an area flooded with explosive gasses. (Better not parry & cause a spark.)
In a zero-gravity chamber walled with inertia-reflecting force fields. In other words, once you start bouncing, you don't stop; time to set up that three-corner bank shot....
On a spaceship with unpredictable artificial gravity
In the middle of a summoning circle, where a demon will be called if any blood strikes the ground. Better make sure to use the flat of the blade
A psy-blade duel inside your mind, flashing through every location you’ve ever been afraid of and/or felt safe
In a masquerade ball / Halloween party in which many people have the same costumes
Traveling through time in a long corridor, racing toward the end of the universe
On top of a spire (halo reach)
In a mine that's blowing up
In a mine that's blocked up and one rope to get out

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