Gladiator

### Close Combatant

Perhaps you're an arena fighter, a soldier, or a city guard. Either way, you live with a sword in your hand and a fire in your heart. You learned to fight in close quarters, either as a one-greek army, or among a phalanx of men, women, and others. Your prowess in battle is unmatched, you truly live for *kleos*.

As a Gladiator, you gain the following class features.

## Hit Points

### Hit Points at Higher Levels

1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per Gladiator level after 1st

## Weapons

Simple & martial melee weapons, nets, darts

## Skills

Choose two skills from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Performance, Perception, and Survival

## Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

(a) chain mail and 10 throwing knives or (b) plate armor

(a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial weapons

(a) a net or (b) two handaxes

### Alternate

Forgo all weapons and choose a minor artifact of myth

(a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack

## Fighting Style

You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

### Tosser

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons you are proficient with.

### Defense

While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

### Dueling

When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

### Great Weapon Fighting

When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

### Protection

When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

### Two-Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

### Second Wind

You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your fighter level. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

### Action Surge

Starting at 2nd level, you can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one additional action on top of your regular action and a possible bonus action.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. Starting at 17th level, you can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

## Martial Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate in your combat styles and techniques. Choose Champion, Battle Master, or Eldritch Knight, all detailed at the end of the class description. The archetype you choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

## Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

## Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 11th level in this class and to four when you reach 20th level in this class.