Hmm... watever happend to Cedus and his Plunge game? (edit: Nevermind. Tricksy scrollbarses, false!)
Anyways, a betting system might be good idea - betting both seru and/or notch items.
I dunno about balancing players out. Losing stats on a plunge loss might be a good idea. And if you get an Injury-4 you are dead and have to start over from scratch (so long as you don't start bitching when they die.) Maybe lethal/non-lethal matches as well. I guess the only way you could keep players from newb-slaughter is to only allow lyn of the same class to Plunge (eg, only Plyn vs. Plyn, Hylyn vs. Hylyn etc.) Exception to this rule would be if a lower-class lyn challenges a higher-class lyn.
