CGR2 - The Complete Gladiator's Handbook

Nonweapon Proficiencies: Bonus Proficiencies: Animal
Lore, Tracking, Survival. Recommended: (General) Animal
Handling, Animal Training, Charioteering,
Endurance, Riding (Airborne or Land Based), Running,
Set Snares.
Equipment: The reaver must purchase at least two
weapons (one distance and one melee) and spend 25% (or
more) on materials to set traps to capture wild creatures.
Special Benefits: A reaver may elect to begin the game
associated with a private group or be under the sponsorship
of a city arena. This is similar to the beast trainer (see
above). The material cost required to feed and house captured
creatures is enormous. An affiliation gives the
reaver certain leads on finding tasks for profit.
Reavers spend so much of their time in the Athasian
outback that they receive a +2 to their starting nonweapon
proficiency survival score. Terrain type must be
chosen for each survival proficiency slot. Additional survival
proficiencies also receive the +2 skill bonus.
Special Hindrances: Reavers who are caught stealing the
prize of another reaver are punished in the arena. They
are sent into combat unarmed, often against the creatures
they stole in the first place, If the reaver survives, he may
spend months in prison until a replacement for the stolen
creature can be found.
Wealth Options: Prices for captured creatures vary with
arena location and rarity of species. Use the rules for
determining price in Beast Trainer, above.
Races: This kit is open to all character races indigenous to
Athas. Level restrictions apply as per racial limitations in
the warrior class.
Special Notes: Reavers always aided each other in the
wild, as long as their own hunt is not endangered. There is
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an unofficial brotherhood among beast reavers. They all
share a common bond in the pursuit of the ultimate
quarry. They gather and tell stories of conquest and failure.
Tremendous sadness and joy can be heard in the
telling of stories about reavers who have heard the
Dragon’s Call. These were the greatest of the reavers, for
each felt powerful enough to face and defeat a Dragon.
This is an unwritten challenge to every reaver, and the
source of the proverb, “Better to die with the Dragon than
here!”
Famous and Infamous:
Nadia the Dark In the employ of the Uric Arena.
Pasha of Forest
Ridge
Gladiatorial Slave
Independent halfling wanderer.
T’ra-nana of Missing. Current whereabouts
the Silt Sea unknown.
Voliviuus
the Wicked
Formerly of Raam (believed to
be deceased).
Gladiatorial slaves tend to be some of the strongest,
toughest, and most dangerous adversaries in the arena.
Battling for survival has been the only constant in their
violent lives. Some are bought and raised from childhood
for a life in the arena. Others start later in life and must
learn quickly in order to survive. They have little to lose or
gain except their lives.
The duty of a gladiatorial slave is to enter the arena
when his master orders him, and give his best effort-or
his life. As bad as life can be in the slave pens, quarries,
and fields, slaves may still live long lives. This is not always
true in the arena. A slave who is forced to fight in the
arena is still a gladiator, whether by choice or fate.