Savage Gladiators Setting Book Enters Final Week on Kickstarter

Dec 27, 2023

Arion Games is entering the final week for their Kickstarter to fund the Savage Gladiators for the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition. The book can be used as a setting book in itself or added to an existing ancient Roman era campaign. The project is currently around $1600.00 short of it’s goal and you can reserve a copy of the print on demand – at a discounted price with the PDF – for a pledge of approximately $20.00 or score just the PDF for a pledge of approximately $15.00 through January 2nd. If the project funds expected delivery is in February.

About the project:

Gladiators clashing weapons on the sand of the great Colosseum. A lion leaping towards a crouching Bestiarius. A group of condemned criminals facing a public death in front of a baying Roman public.

Gladiatorial combat was the pre-eminent entertainment for Romans, and the battles they fought have never quite left the popular imagination, featuring in numerous books, films and TV series.

Now, this Setting book brings fast and furious Gladiatorial combat to Savage Worlds. From the first exposure to the arena as a Condemned criminal or callow volunteer to the pinnacle of becoming the Colosseum Champion, this book provides the rules for Gladiator characters in the Roman Empire.

It is designed to be used as a setting in it’s own right, where the characters are gladiators across a long career, or as an add on to an existing Roman campaign, or even as a fill-in game for occasional play!

Within this book you will find:

Gladiator character creation rules
New Hindrances and Gladiator specific Edges for 9 specialities
New rules for Arena combat
New gear and weapons
Rules for Ludus design and development
Templates for running a Gladiator campaign with tables to generate arena opponents and outside missions
A Plot Point campaign
A bestiary of common enemy types

Options are provided for a purely historical campaign, an alt-history campaign or incorporating gladiators into a fantasy game.

Whether you end up as a Murmillo or a Retiarius, whether you are a muscle bound bruiser, a fast and agile fighter or even a thinker and tactician, your skill will be tested to the limit to survive the brutality of the arena!

The manuscript for this book is written and playtested, and so the final book should follow fairly quickly after the end of the Kickstarter Campaign, artists allowing!

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