For a lil while now I've been reading up about the arena section cause it does sound pretty interesting and the idea of having a battle with someone seems like a fairly cool idea. [i](Gets thoughts of Dark Souls 2 with the parry, duck, roll, attack system while managing stamina)[/i]

Curious though. With characters is there any story basis that should be associated with a character? Should the RP be mostly about the fight or would it contain story elements around it? And once a character is defeated or killed(?), should it be discarded or can that character be reused for new fights?

Finally, I wouldn't mind having a sparing/tutorial match just to understand the difference between Arena and regular RPs. Would someone be available to help run through the match and guide me on the do's and don't's?

Thanks.

PS: Also read Skallagrim's guide on close combat and the article on T1