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

In the catwalks above a stage, with the opera/play in progress below.
On a frozen river, with chunks of ice breaking away under your feet.
A flotilla of logs floating down a river.
Construction scaffolding.
Under direct, heavy cannon bombardment.
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
On a merry-go-round
Inside the works of a clock tower
Hanging onto the ropes that dangle beneath a zeppelin (which may or may not be on fire)
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 the midst of deadlocked rush-hour traffic, leaping from car to car.
On a flat-bed semi traveling down the interstate at 90 mph
In elevator shafts, but not in the elevators
On a rocky precipice overlooking a fall of hundreds of feet
On a series of conveyor belts leading to pressing machinery
Inside the big cage where they store helium balloons
On a rowboat
Between the gears and pulleys of a four-story-building-sized clockwork, steam-driven difference engine
On Mars, while wearing space suits, in low gravity
Inside someone else's blood vessels, while shrunk to microscopic size
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 top of the servers in a major data center (while one of the combatants is trying to hack into the systems in that center)
On a dam
In a ship's rigging
Below-decks in a burning, sinking ship
The tunnels of a large subway system
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 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)
Anywhere at all during an earthquake
Inside the chambers of a dying giant's heart .
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 high voltage transformer station
In a brick-walled olive oil cellar - when one of the casks is struck, olive oil coats the floor.
In a hedgerow maze
In an airlock that's slowly decompressing
In a stopped elevator
On a Ferris Wheel
On a seaside boardwalk during a hurricane
Running concurrently with another swordfight, such that each of the four combatants wants to kill the other three
On a stone staircase in a rapidly falling apart castle.
Underwater while wearing clumsy diver suits.
On the floor of a large ballroom after the villain has insulted the hero – remember those floors are slick.
On the edge of a burning, active volcano.
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.
On the roof of a burning sky scraper
On the wing of a B-17 Flying Fortress
In a dragon's lair...right next to sleeping dragon.
In a studio prop department. (make sure to grab your REAL sword)
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
In a game & comic store
On a factory conveyer belt that dumps rocks into a furnace.
On a grassy plain in the middle of a stampede.
From rooftop to rooftop in a flooded town.
In the city's slums during a massive fire.
An open field with snow 4 feet deep.
In the middle of a riot.
Quicksand.
In the path of a massive horde of army ants.
In a hospital emergency room that is in the process of accepting dozens of victims from some sort of disaster.
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.
Inside a wind-tunnel.
While skydiving.
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)
In an area flooded with explosive gasses. (Better not parry & cause a spark.)
On the open observation deck of a gigantic steam-powered zeppelin, suspended a thousand feet above the streets of a major city.
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 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.
On the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
On a school bus full of little children.
In a room full of hemophiliacs.
In a paper mill.
On a spaceship with unpredictable artificial gravity.
Jumping from piece to piece of wreckage as it's being sucked into a huge whirlpool.
In a museum. Lots of improvised weapons to hand, whether it's a 15th century scimitar or the tooth of a Tyrannosaurus.
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 train station. Clouds of steam, huge machines to fight across and lots of civilians running around.
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.
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 having sex.
While handcuffed or otherwise bound to another swordfighter.
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
At a rave
In a ghetto bail-bonds/pawn shop
In front of the grave of your twin brother that the murderous swine slew one exact year ago
A ferry in high wind, with cars or heavy crates rolling around.
During a high school gym class.
At a christening.
In the desert at high noon (heat prostration anyone?) while a sandstorm is coming.
A psy-blade duel inside your mind, flashing through every location you’ve ever been afraid of and/or felt safe.
Last men standing on a battlefield (weapons, corpses, and setting sun mandatory, undead optional).
Lovers fighting in a huge canopied bed with dozens of pillows and silk sheets.
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
In the bathtub or at a Roman bath-house.
In the shrine of a forgotten/elder god who is starting to wake.
While being lynched
In chariots, especially when running along the spar of the enemies chariot.
In a masquerade ball / Halloween party in which many people have the same costumes
On top of monolithic statues depicting your ancestors/nation (The Statue of Liberty, the statues by the falls in Fellowship of the Ring.)
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!
On the hands of Big Ben
Traveling through time in a long corridor, racing toward the end of the universe.
In the Oval Office, the floor of the UN general assembly, or other location of political importance.
Inside a transport container getting crushed in a giant hydrolic press.
Atlantis as it's sinking.
In a nuclear missile silo about to launch.
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 the sanctioned dueling grounds of a local Mage's guild, DURING a full-scale mage's duel.
On top of a giant Godzilla-style monster.
On top of a careening coach while riding over a bridge 10 miles above a city.
In the middle of a high class 1930s nightclub
Atop a burning citadel while meteorites fall all around
In the middle of 99 cent store with crowded isles only a foot and a half wide.
In a brothel / opium den.
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
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
Near a strong gravitational or magnetic source. The swords accelerating or decelerating as they pass near it.
A knife fight in a telephone booth (and you HAVE to answer the phone.)

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