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!
