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
Indoors
- 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
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Wacky Situations
- 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
Other
- 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
