Duels

Many political disputes are settled in the dueling courts. Once a month a constable will preside over the disputes for the month. The Duels are a great spectacle and draw huge crowds. Duels can involve any weapons but are usually done with daggers. Professional duelists can be hired to do the fighting. Informal duels are treated as if they were a common brawl.

New Weapons

Gorn are experts at the use and manufacture of poison. Common sorts of blood, ingested, and contact poison can be easily had. Most people of influence or power will have several methods for dealing with poison, tasters, magic, and magic items are not too uncommon to protect someone from a poison dish. The Gorn have developed several weapons that are concealed as articles of clothing, hat pins, ring garrotes, and other such items can be had for a price. Most of these items are too flimsy to be used in actual combat, their real purpose is poison delivery systems. Magical poisons are also manufactured by the Gorn, these cannot be detected by normal means and exceptional ones will only poison the intended target! Of course for most people, magical poisons are well beyond their reach. 

Larger concealed weapons can be purchased for 10 times the regular cost of the actual weapon. Not all weapons can be made into other objects, common ones include; sword-cane (rapier), knife-belt buckle (knife), walking stick-short spear (short spear).. the more complex the design, the more costly the weapon. Large weapons such as battle axes and two handed swords obviously cannot be made into concealable weapons.

One of the most fearsome weapons developed by the Gorn is Razor-Wire. This is basically a super sharp garrote that can sever unprotected flesh. This device will only be functional on unprotected flesh, leather-even heavy cloth will nullify the Razor-Wire's effectiveness. One must get the wire around the arm or neck of the victim and then give a sharp tug-the damage it inflicts is terrific (1-10/1-6) for such a small, compact weapon. The Razor wire is very thin and prone to breakage, even the slightest resistance from a blade or gauntleted hand can snap the wire. A tool of choice for assassins. 

Drugs

Drugs for pleasure are common in Gorn, drugs that augment strength and combat ability can be obtained for a price. Below is a small sampling of some of the drugs one can obtain on the streets.

Bull:

Bull is a highly addictive drug that increases the user's strength. Someone on Bull can punch holes in walls, break limbs and generally tear the place apart. Like the name says, Bull also makes the user aggressive and prone to combat situations. Most Bull users wind up getting killed in a fight or having their hearts explode. 

Dark:

Dark is a potent drug that makes the user see at night as if it were daytime. Dark also increases one's reflexes to super-human levels. Individuals on Dark have been know to dodge arrows and strike with lightning speed. Side effects include blindness, death-those are the mild ones.

Gray Matter:

Gray matter is an intelligence boosting drug, the user will be lightning quick at figuring out puzzles and equations. Characters on Gray Matter will become super computers, able to think on many different levels at the same time, this drug is popular amongst wizards and other thinking types. The drawback is after prolonged usage, the addict will need to maintain a dose just to keep a normal level of thinking. After a while, the user becomes a babbling idiot. 

Skull:

Skull is a super addictive combat drug. This drug was developed my the Gorn Military to give their shock troops an edge in combat, it quickly made it's way to the private sector. Skull gives the user increased skills and damage in combat, making the user a fearsome warrior. The withdrawals can be fatal, so the user must maintain their high to potentially avoid death. Unfortunately, prolonged usage can cause heart attacks, strokes, brain aneurysms etc.