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.)
• Fort Knox (Think 007)