Enter a competitor, leave a legend.
What is the Rabid Arena?
The Rabid Arena is a gladiator-style 5e-adjacent tournement of champions. Players enter with three premade random characters, carefully designed by our team to be ballanced and fun. Playing one at a time, they will battle eachother to see who can be named the Arena Champion.Â
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The Arena Champion will be the last remaining standing character (player).
It’s part tactical skirmish, part RPG spectacle, and part dice-fueled chaos — designed to be easy to join, exciting to watch, and unforgettable to play.
Where Can I play?
Online
Some events will be hosted online and can be found at Twitch.tv/TenRabidBears
For 2026, you'll find us at GenCon.
Conventions
About Us
The Rabid Arena started under a similar name at PAX East run for our local game shop.
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Over the years it grew into an event people came back to PAX East for year after year and sat at our table for the entire (or most of) convention.
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After Covid, the Arena was retired at conventions.
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While it continued online and in our local game shop we have wanted to find new ways of bringing it back better than ever. To that end we went to Fan Expo in 2025 to gauge interest in a new convention. That paired with the request at some collaborating friends, we decided to bring it to Gen Con in 2026.
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With updated rules, a new physical arena and new collaborations, the newly rebranded Rabid Arena is ready to make crowds cheer once more.
Andrew and Craig have been running the Arena since its beginning in 2011. We build the Arena's, we stat the creatures and we run the events.
Andrew started playing TTRPG's in 2002 and has not stopped since. Now he creates not only 5e adjacent materials on Patreon, streams on twitch, and shares clips of their adventures on TikTok. In recent years he has been playtesting game systems of his own creations and sharing those experiences on twitch and TikTok as well.Â
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Craig has been playing Dungeons and Dragons since 1st or second edition. He was Andrew's first GM and continues to run games for their regular group weekly to this day (sharing that responsibility with one of our other wonderful GMs as they trade off). He is usually willing to hear out Andrew's latest crazy idea or concept and enjoys branching out into other game systems. He brings great balance and creativity to all aspects of the game and is truly a cornerstone of the Rabid Arena.
Skyler is the team's newest addition. He brings a fresh creative taste to the game and it's design. While his TTRPG experience is not as time tested as Andrew or Craig, what he lacks in time or experience he makes up for in amazing creativity and insight, keeping everyone on their toes.
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The entire team can also be seen on Friday nights at 7pm EST on Andrew's Twitch Channel TenRabidBears.