A gladiator is as much an entertainer as any minstrel or circus performer, trained to make the arts of combat into a spectacle the crowd can enjoy. This kind of flashy combat is your entertainer routine, though you might also have some skills as a tumbler or actor. Most popular type of gladiators are ancient professional fighter who utilized unique weapons and different armour types as they fought in public arenas for the entertainment of spectators.
Ability Scores: Dexterity, Constitution, Charisma
- Feat: Tough or Savage Attacker
Skills: Acrobatics and Performance
Tools: Disguise Kit
- Skill Proficiencies: Acrobatics and Performance
- Tool Proficiencies: Disguise Kit
- Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) An inexpensive but Unusual weapon (Like a Trident or Net), Disguise Kit , An musical instrument, A letter from admirer (example; a love letter, a lock of hair, a trinket), [A Costume, 15 GP; or (B) 50 GP
Tough: Your Hit Point maximum increases by an amount equal to twice your character level when you gain this feat. Whenever you gain a character level thereafter, your Hit Point maximum increases by an additional 2 Hit Points.
Or
Savage Attacker: You’ve trained to deal particularly damaging strikes. Once per turn when you hit a target with a weapon, you can roll the weapon’s damage dice twice and use either roll against the target.
You can chose which origin feat above works best for your characters version of a gladiator
Contacts
Following 2024 rules: Custom Backgrounds
- Choose 3 ability scores
- 2 skills proficiencies
- 1 tools proficiencies
- 1 Origin feat
- Equipment: choice between starting equipment equaling 50 gp or 50gp that they can use to buy for starting equipment before start or during game
All choices of which should go with the specific details of background.
You can always find a place to perform in any place that features com bat for entertainment—perhaps a gladiatorial arena or secret pit fighting club. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your performance makes you something of a local figure. When strangers recognize you in a town where you have performed, they typically take a liking to you.
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