The Dark Sun Campaign Setting is the ideal campaign setting for a Gladiator-style Dungeons & Dragons adventure.
— the long-awaited follow-up to Ridley Scott’s epic, Best Picture-winning original film that debuted in 2000 — opened in theaters this weekend, which may give audiences a taste for more stories of arena fighters dreaming of freedom. Upon its release,captured audiences’ attention with the soaring, grand scale of Maximus’ Decimus Meridius story, as he is betrayed, enslaved, and forced to fight in gladiatorial combat.
Now, you might stop me here and say, “Only one? Can’t I drop an arena into my Forgotten Realms or Eberron campaign and go from there?” And if you are a coward, then yes, you can go that route.. Instead, it draws on post-apocalyptic and swords and sorcery fiction. Athas is a barren landscape where familiar races aren’t what fans expect and life is harsh enough that most species have developed psychic powers as a survival mechanism.
, in which the title character leads a slave rebellion during The Third Servile War, also known as the Gladiator War, that threatened the Roman Empire in first century BC. , introduced the Gladiator class. While similar in playstyle to the Fighter class, Gladiators are trained for arena combat, which gives them proficiency with all weapons, allows them to specialize in multiple weapons, and makes them harder to hit.
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