The Ultimate Gladiator

The Ultimate Gladiator
Author: Brian Berg
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2014-02-09
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781495494857

The gladiator alternate fighter class is a robust expansion upon the gladiator archetype in standard fantasy and designed for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Television series such as Spartacus(TM) have vividly inspired us and we are pleased to present 'The Ultimate Gladiator.' Total Party Kill Games' Ultimate Gladiator is an excellent adaptation, blending the exceptional Pathfinder system to a fantastic concept. We've utilized the "Talented" class framework to create a gladiator that is incredibly flexible and has the abilities to back up the strength of the concept. Our gladiator is not only a killer in the arena, but a viable character when allowed to adventure, providing valuable inspiration to his allies as he performs his feats of bravado and dash. While powerful, the gladiator is mostly limited in scope to melee combat and not well armored, preferring light armor and great mobility over heavier armors. This grants him great reflexes and their incessant combat practice allows them to take wounds that would cripple a normal hero and still keep on fighting. Within are multitudes of talents, feats, combat styles, traits, and even archetypes. Play the role of an insightful Andabata (Blind Helm Fighter), a ferocious Bestiarus (Beast Master), an acrobatic Blade Dancer, the charismatic Champion, the reviled Criminal, the massive Gigante (Giant), the alluring Gladiatrix, the unstoppable Immortal, the unflinching Ironbound, the wealthy Noble Gladiator, the deadly ranged Sagittarius, the rage-filled Barbaric Slave gladiator, and the fearsome Venator (Beast Slayer). Use 'The Ultimate Gladiator' to bring an exciting new warrior class into your Pathfinder games. Build a gladiator campaign around the multitudes of different gladiators you can build with this sourcebook. Or play a free gladiator that inspires his adventuring allies with his panache and bravado in your existing campaign. You will be entertained...

Gladiator

Gladiator
Author: Dan Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-02-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439102295

Aggressive, explosive, and boasting awesome athletic ability, Dan Clark rose to tremendous fame as Nitro on American Gladiators. He quickly emerged as the most popular cast member and became a reality television superstar. But a twenty-year affair with steroids led to a life of pissing blood, smuggling drugs, destroying hotel rooms, getting arrested, growing breasts, and lying bloodied in the street after a vicious fight with his best friend. This is Clark's riveting, fiercely candid account of his life, career, and steroid addiction. From an upbringing defined by tragedy and a difficult search for identity to tales of performing center stage at Madison Square Garden and bedding Playboy Bunnies and porn stars, Clark explores the price of fame, the pressure of stardom, and how the whole steroid-fueled fantasy finally imploded. What began in high school as a way to speed up recovery from injury rapidly turned into an all-consuming addiction. With selfdeprecating humor and a trove of incredible stories, Clark provides an eye-opening report on the dangers of steroids both obvious and hidden -- and offers his thoughts on why steroid use remains a persistent problem today. More than just a pulpy exposé, Gladiator is a triumphant story of self-discovery and redemption.

Gladiator

Gladiator
Author: Ridley Scott
Publisher: Newmarket Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2000
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557044310

The official illustrated companion book to the winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Russell Crowe), Costume Design, Sound, and Visual Effects. Director Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Alien) brings the glorious battles of the ancient Roman arena back to the big screen. Set against the splendor and barbarity of the Roman Empire in AD 180, Gladiator tells an epic story of courage and revenge: The great Roman general Maximus (Russell Crowe) has been forced into exile and slavery by the jealous heir to the throne, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix). Trained as a gladiator, Maximus returns to Rome, intent on avenging the murder of his family by Commodus, now emperor. The one power stronger than that of the emperor is the will of the people, and Maximus knows he can attain his revenge only by becoming the greatest hero in all the Empire. Russell Crowe heads up an international cast that includes Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielson, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, and Richard Harris. Directed by Ridley Scott from a script by David Franzoni and John Logan, Gladiator is produced by Franzoni, Douglas Wick, and Branko Lustig, with Walter F. Parkes serving as executive producer. This is the official full-color companion book, featuring excerpts from the screenplay, historical sidebars and illustrations, details on period costumes and epic set designs, behind-the-scenes photographs from the location filming, and interviews with the screenwriters, actors, and director.

Gladiatrix

Gladiatrix
Author: Russell Whitfield
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2009-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429967013

The Ancient Roman public's hunger for gladiatorial combat has never been greater. The Emperor Domitian's passion for novelty and variety in the arena has given rise to a very different kind of warrior: the Gladiatrix. Sole survivor of a shipwreck off the coast of Asia Minor, Lysandra finds herself the property of Lucius Balbus, owner of the foremost Ludus for female gladiators in the Eastern Empire. Lysandra, a member of an ancient Spartan sect of warrior priestesses, refuses to accept her new status as a slave. Forced to fight for survival, her deadly combat skills win the adoration of the crowds, the respect of Balbus. But Lysandra's Spartan pride also earns her powerful enemies: Sorina, Gladiatrix Prima and leader of the Barbarian faction, and the sadistic Numidian trainer, Nastasen. When plans are laid for the ultimate combat spectacle to honor the visit of the emperor's powerful new emissary, Lysandra must face her greatest and deadliest trial. This is a thrilling first novel that combines fascinating historical detail with blistering action.

You Are the Ultimate Magician

You Are the Ultimate Magician
Author: Alcyoné Sumila Starr
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2019-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198222021X

Alaska, a student at the university, had no interest in spirituality. But her accidental meetings with Maxim De Winter, a billionaire entrepreneur, better known for his spiritual work as “gladiator” around the globe, changed her views completely. Gladiator said his mission was to awaken humanity to their own inherent power. After learning to meditate and other spiritual practices, Alaska knew for sure she was an ultimate magician, as Gladiator said, with unimaginable powers to create anything she desired. Spreading Gladiator’s spiritual message was her passion now. To learn to present spiritual seminars herself, Alaska attended five seminars with Gladiator in different cities with different audiences, at the end of which she was expected to be able to present a seminar. Will she be able to do it? Alaska’s mother worried lest her daughter gets hurt in the process. She thought it was inevitable that Alaska would fall for Maxim De Winter with fancy cars, yachts, businesses around the world, and his spiritual knowledge that gave him an irresistible charismatic personality. So it was a welcome surprise for Alaska’s parents when Maxim De Winter called them one day to say he would be coming to meet them next Saturday. They were overjoyed and were looking forward to his visit, but Alaska was not, although she was curious to know why he always addressed her as princess. And whenever she asked him for anything, his response was “Your wish is my command, princess.” She wondered why.

Gladiator

Gladiator
Author: Philip Wylie
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2023-06-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Gladiator, first published in 1930, tells the story of Hugo Danner, who is given superhuman speed, endurance, strength, and intelligence by his father as an experiment in creating a better human. We follow Hugo throughout his life viewed from his perspective, from childhood, when Hugo first discovers he’s different from others, to adulthood, as Hugo tries to find a positive outlet for his abilities around the time of the first World War. Gladiator has been made into a 1938 comedy movie, and is thought to be the inspiration for the Superman comic books—though this has not been confirmed.

Emperors and Gladiators

Emperors and Gladiators
Author: Thomas Wiedemann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2002-03-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1134990405

Of all aspects of Roman culture, the gladiatorial contests for which the Romans built their amphitheatres are at once the most fascinating and the most difficult for us to come to terms with. They have been seen variously as sacrifices to the gods or, at funerals, to the souls of the deceased; as a mechanism for introducing young Romans to the horrors of fighting; and as a direct substitute for warfare after the imposition of peace. In this original and authoritative study, Thomas Wiedemann argues that gladiators were part of the mythical struggle of order and civilisation against the forces of nature, barbarism and law breaking, representing the possibility of a return to new life from the point of death; that Christian Romans rejected gladiatorial games not on humanitarian grounds, but because they were a rival representation of a possible resurrection.

Gladiator-At-Law

Gladiator-At-Law
Author: Frederik Pohl
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1787200736

CAUTION! You are about to enter a world... where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and death where the stock market operates with pari-mutuel machines where a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machine where the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungle In this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine of corporate interests—battles them in board meetings and in dark alleys—in a struggle that lays bare some brutal promises of the future...promises we are beginning to make right now. “...wholly admirable, in both thinking and execution.”—Galaxy “Reminiscent in vigor, bite and acumen to THE SPACE MERCHANTS”—Anthony Boucher. “...possessed of a bite and savage vigor which makes it one of the outstanding science fiction novels of the year.”—The New York Times “...a powerfully convincing story.”—New York Herald Tribune

Gladiators

Gladiators
Author: M.C. Bishop
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612005144

A concise history of ancient Roman gladiators—how they lived, fought, and died in the Colosseum—by the archeologist, author, and Roman military expert. Heroic despite their lowly status, the gladiators of ancient Rome fought vicious duels in large arenas filled with baying crowds. Few lasted more than a dozen fights, yet they were a valuable asset to their owners. Gladiators reveals the fascinating history of these men, how they fought, and how their weapons and techniques developed—debunking myths along the way. Historian M. C. Bishop examines the different forms of gladiator combat, including simulated naval battles held on large artificial lakes. He also discusses how gladiators were carefully paired against each other to balance their strengths and weaknesses. Although their lives were brutal and short, gladiators were the celebrities of their day, admired for their bravery. This short history reveals what we know about the gladiators and how we know it: ancient remains, contemporary literature, graffiti, modern attempts to reconstruct ancient fighting techniques, and the astonishing discovery at Pompeii where a complete gladiator barracks was found alongside multiple skeletons, telling their story.