And now you want your own gladiator...Well, its not so easy just to want! You must toil and work and...Well, actually, its very simple: You must first choose a race and develop your character's statistics, as described by this document. Then, add in race, weight, and all those other important facts which seem useless but give you a true sense of what your character is all about. Don't be afraid or confused by the way the instructions are written, as they are intended to be useful for not only Gladiator generation, but also for creating Heroes and generals for a Battlestorm army, as well as creating characters for Incredible Adventures. (although the instructions are slightly different, especially in the case of vocational choices and improvement points) 

Once you have created your character, it is now time to define him or her as a true gladiator by assigning a Gladiator Vocational Template. As with real people, every character in Fables Gamesystem has a vocation. This vocation is expressed in a "vocational template," which is something like AD&D's character classes.  In the Fables system, any character can learn any skill, It's just that its easier for a soldier to learn martial skills than a wizard. The vocational template lists all the costs for improving any skill or ability you may want to improve. There are many different vocational templates, but to create a gladiator, we will only be needing the gladiator template. 

The last step in creating a gladiator is to use improvement points to, coincidentally, improve your gladiator. All that is truly important is that opposing gladiators use similar numbers of improvement points, but as a general guideline, 7 is suggested. You can use these improvement points to purchase skill ranks or increase stats, as detailed in the template you have chosen. 

Here are some notes about the tables you will see on this file:
 

• Entry Requirements: This is what you need to join the vocation. At any time you may change vocations, if you qualify for a different vocation.
• Entry Costs: This is the number of Improvement Points it costs to join the vocation.
• Base Stat improvement: The cost shows the number of Improvement Points you must spend to raise the ability by one point. Remember to apply the fine print.
• Improvement Limit: This is the limit to which the gladiator may extend his skill, in levels.
• Skills Improvement: The Martial skills, which is 90% of what a pit fighter needs, and is all that will be discussed in this text. The cost is the cost to raise any one skill in the family by one rank.  Note that Battlestorm has a glossary which defines many of the terms like Skill level and skill rank.

And that should bring your new gladiator to a finish. It is now up to you and the luck of the fickle d30's as to whether your new 'purchase' of a fighter can stand up to and defeat your enemies in the gladiatorial pits, and bring honor and coin to your family. Good luck to you, you'll need it!