# Pregenerated Characters
*Rome DCCIV AUC, The Edge of the Republic, Rome and the provinces in 50 BC. Source: https://exodusnds.com/era-books/rome/pregenerated-characters*
Choose from seven characters in the Era Cast. Each follows the seven steps in Character Creation and Roles, spends 110 XP and begins in Rome in Ianuarius 50 BC, as the Starter Adventure opens. Two cast members stay with the GM. Papirius, the Subura boss, opposes the players (Adversaries). The book prints no sheet for Sulpicia, but players can build a Vestal Virgin.
A sheet carries no penalty for Origin or Role. Set the audience's response to a Gaul, freedman or enslaved physician in play, using Attitude (Era Rules, Patronage and Rank).
## Using the Pregenerated Characters
1. **Pick one.** Use the name on the sheet or choose one from Character Creation and Roles, Names.
2. **Check the ties.** Your sheet gives you two ties to other pregenerated characters and a tie to the world. If a tie names a character nobody chose, replace it.
3. **Build a new character for a different Origin or Role.** Use Character Creation and Roles and spend the full 110 XP from scratch.
### Reading a Sheet
- **Characteristics.** Might, Agility, Intellect, Savvy, Willpower, Charisma.
- **Pool.** Use the lower of characteristic and skill rank for Mastery Dice, then their difference for Ability Dice. Sheets abbreviate this as *2M 1A*: two Mastery Dice and one Ability Die . At skill rank 0, roll only Ability Dice, equal to the characteristic.
- **Derived values.** Wound Points are 10 + Might, Strain Points 10 + Willpower, Resistance half Might rounded up plus armor; Defenses start at 0 (Core Rules, Character Creation, Derived Values).
- **Initiative.** Savvy and Perception On Watch; Willpower and Readiness Surprised.
- **XP.** Every sheet spends exactly 110 XP at the costs in Character Creation and Roles: a characteristic to 3 costs 30 and to 4 costs 40; a profession skill costs 5 for rank 1 and 10 for rank 2, any other skill 10 and 15; a Tier 1 talent costs 5 and a Tier 2 talent 10, with one Tier 1 talent free. Tongues cost what Skills and Talents, Tongues sets.
- **Ordo, Standing and Dignitas.** Ordo is rank in law, Standing sets the Stake, and Dignitas adds Boon Dice to open social checks at 2 or more (Era Rules, Patronage and Rank).
### The Party at a Glance
| Character | Origin and Role | Ordo; Dignitas | Standing and Stake | Best at |
|:--|:--|:--|:--|:--|
| Septimius | Roman citizen, Centurion | Citizen; 1 | Professional, 675 HS | Holding a line; leading soldiers |
| Fabia | Roman citizen, Senator's House | Senatorial; 3 | Senatorial, 12,000 HS (Debt 6,000) | The house's letters and its seal; terms |
| Banona | Gaul, Envoy and Interpreter | Peregrine; 1 (3 among the Aedui) | Professional, 675 HS | Being heard before a hostile audience; riding |
| Eros | Freed person, Merchant and Moneylender | Freedman; 1 | Professional, 675 HS (Debt 6,000) | Money, prices and accounts |
| Bithys | Enslaved person, Gladiator and Charioteer | Enslaved; 0 | Peculium, 25 HS | The arena |
| Chryseis | Enslaved person, Physician and Midwife | Enslaved; 0 | Peculium, 25 HS | Medicine; the house's sickroom |
| Kallias | Egyptian, Envoy and Interpreter | Peregrine; 1 (3 among Egyptians) | Professional, 675 HS | Courts, debts and four tongues |
The seven pregenerated characters together in the Forum
## The Sheets
##### Aulus Septimius Crispus, centurion on leave from Gaul
*Roman citizen Origin, Centurion Role. Ordo Citizen, Dignitas 1. Standing: Professional, 675 HS, credit limit 1,350 HS.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 13; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 4 in his mail (2 without it); **Defense** with the scutum readied, Melee 1 and Ranged 2; **Initiative:** On Watch 0M 2A; Surprised 2M 0A.
- **Skills:** Fortitude 2 (Might 3: 2M 1A); Leadership 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Melee 2 (Might 3: 2M 1A; the gladius's Accurate 1 adds 1 Boon Die); Readiness 2 (Willpower 2: 2M 0A); Athletics 1 (Might 3: 1M 2A); Intimidation 1 (Willpower 2: 1M 1A).
- **Talents:** *Vine Stick* (Tier 1, free); *Shield Wall* (Tier 1); *Marcher* (Tier 1).
- **Kit:** the Centurion's kit: gladius Hispaniensis (Shortsword), two pila (Javelin), pugio (Dagger), scutum (Kite Shield), sudis (Sharpened Stake) and the vine stick (Cudgel) (*The Fantasy Armory*); lorica hamata (Mail Shirt) and a crested helmet (Open Helm) (*The Armourer*); greaves, caligae, a military belt, a pack, a dolabra and rations (Gear and Prices).
- **Strength:** With magistrates' staffs, the tribes at the vote and the people of his own quarter, once per session: Negotiation or Streetwise, 1 Boon Die.
- **Tongues:** Latin, read and written.
- **XP:** characteristics 30, skills 70, talents 10: 110. His next purchase in the book's examples is Front Rank (10 XP).
- **Motive:** Collect the land he was promised and keep his men alive until he does.
- **Ties to characters:** He stood on the outer line at Alesia. In the spring of that year, before the Aedui rose, he marched with the army Banona fed with her people's grain (Legion Battles, Banona and the Aeduan Grain), and she has asked him to tell the Senate so. He means to borrow from Eros for a share in a farm near Cremona (Era Rules, Septimius Borrows from Eros).
- **Tie to the world:** His discharge land depends on a man in Rome he has never met.
##### Fabia Tertulla, the senator's daughter who keeps his letters
*Roman citizen Origin, Senator's House Role. Ordo Senatorial, Dignitas 3. Standing: Senatorial, 12,000 HS, credit limit 24,000 HS, with a creation Debt of 6,000 HS to Eros, due at the end of Februarius.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 11; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 1; **Melee and Ranged Defense** 0; **Initiative:** On Watch 1M 2A; Surprised 0M 2A.
- **Skills:** Lore 2 (Intellect 2: 2M 0A); Negotiation 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Streetwise 2 (Savvy 3: 2M 1A); Charm 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Deception 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Perception 1 (Savvy 3: 1M 2A).
- **Talents:** *Dinner Couch* (Tier 1, free); *Patron's Seal* (Tier 2); *Convincing* (Tier 2).
- **Kit:** the Senator's House kit, with the stola and palla of a woman of her order in place of the toga: a signet ring, a stock of letters, wax tablets (Gear and Prices), a litter with six bearers of the household, and a Riding Horse with Riding saddle and Bridle and bit (*The Stable*). She keeps her father's seal and writes his letters.
- **Strength:** With magistrates' staffs, the tribes at the vote and the people of her own quarter, once per session: Negotiation or Streetwise, 1 Boon Die.
- **Tongues:** Latin, read and written.
- **XP:** characteristics 30, skills 60, talents 20: 110.
- **Motive:** Keep her father's house solvent, allied and on the winning side, and choose her own next husband.
- **Ties to characters:** She bought Bithys and paid Nerva a premium to train him, so that Nerva would speak to Senator Numa for her father; the house has since sold Bithys to Nerva (Character Creation and Roles, Bithys's Origin and Role). Chryseis keeps her father's sickroom and goes where the house's business goes. Eros holds her note for 6,000 HS.
- **Tie to the world:** Senator Numa has not yet given the vote her premium to Nerva was meant to buy.
##### Banona, Aeduan noblewoman and envoy
*Gaul Origin, Envoy and Interpreter Role. Ordo Peregrine; Dignitas 1 among Romans, 3 among the Aedui. Standing: Professional, 675 HS on her council's purse, credit limit 1,350 HS.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 12; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 1; **Melee and Ranged Defense** 0; **Initiative:** On Watch 1M 1A; Surprised 0M 2A.
- **Skills:** Charm 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Negotiation 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Riding 2 (Agility 3: 2M 1A); Fortitude 1 (Might 2: 1M 1A); Leadership 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Lore 1 (Intellect 1: 1M 0A); Perception 1 (Savvy 2: 1M 1A).
- **Talents:** *Interpreter* (Tier 1, free); *Herald's Staff* (Tier 2).
- **Kit:** the Aeduan council's letters under seal, a writing set and a gift of silver plate that is the council's and not her Stake (Gear and Prices); a long knife (Dagger, *The Fantasy Armory*); a Riding Horse with Riding saddle and Bridle and bit (*The Stable*).
- **Strength:** Among her own people, their allies and the Gallic horse, once per session: Riding or Leadership, 1 Boon Die.
- **Tongues:** Gaulish and Latin; Greek and Germanic by Interpreter. She reads and writes Latin.
- **XP:** characteristics 30, skills 70, talents 10: 110. Fortitude is not a profession skill for her and cost 10.
- **Motive:** Win back the lands her house lost when her brother joined the revolt of 52 BC.
- **Ties to characters:** Fabia's father is her patron in Rome. Septimius marched with the army she fed with Aeduan grain in the spring of 52 BC, before the Aedui rose, and can tell the Senate so. Kallias waits on the same Senate and has taught her how embassies are heard.
- **Tie to the world:** Caesar's settlement gave her house's lands to an Aeduan who sided with Rome in 52 BC, and his agent is in Rome.
##### Lucius Cornelius Eros, freedman moneylender
*Freed person Origin, born in Ephesus; Merchant and Moneylender Role. Ordo Freedman, Dignitas 1. Standing: Professional, 675 HS, credit limit 1,350 HS, with a creation Debt of 6,000 HS to his patron for Fabia's note, due at the end of Februarius.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 11; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 1; **Melee and Ranged Defense** 0; **Initiative:** On Watch 1M 1A; Surprised 0M 2A.
- **Skills:** Lore 2 (Intellect 3: 2M 1A); Negotiation 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Streetwise 2 (Savvy 2: 2M 0A); Deception 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Perception 1 (Savvy 2: 1M 1A).
- **Talents:** *Market Eye* (Tier 1, free); *Abacus Hand* (Tier 1); *Debt Ledger* (Tier 2); *Convincing* (Tier 2).
- **Kit:** an abacus, account rolls, a strongbox, scales and weights (Gear and Prices); a Mule with Pack saddle (*The Stable*); a Knife (*The Fantasy Armory*).
- **Strength:** With other freed people, the trade colleges and his patron's house, once per session: Negotiation or Streetwise, 1 Boon Die.
- **Patron:** Lucius Cornelius, head of the house that freed him; Eros always owes him at least 1 Favor (Era Rules, Patronage and Rank).
- **Tongues:** Latin and Greek; he reads and writes Latin.
- **XP:** characteristics 30, skills 55, talents 25: 110.
- **Motive:** Hold paper on every street that matters, and never stand on a dealer's platform again.
- **Ties to characters:** He lent Fabia's house 6,000 HS of his patron's money. Septimius wants a loan for his farm. He bets on Bithys, and knows his price to the sesterce.
- **Tie to the world:** He reads Greek accounts for the bankers who hold the Egyptian king's debts.
##### Bithys, Thracian gladiator
*Enslaved person Origin, born in Thrace; Gladiator and Charioteer Role, a thraex. Ordo Enslaved, Dignitas 0, infamis. Standing: Peculium, 25 HS. Owner and patron: Nerva, the lanista in Capua.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
- **Wound Points** 13; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 3 in the matched arena kit (2 without it); **Defense** with the parma, Melee 1; **Initiative:** On Watch 0M 2A; Surprised 1M 1A.
- **Skills:** Athletics 2 (Might 3: 2M 1A); Fortitude 2 (Might 3: 2M 1A); Melee 2 (Might 3: 2M 1A; the sica's Accurate 1 adds 1 Boon Die); Charm 1 (Charisma 2: 1M 1A); Readiness 1 (Willpower 2: 1M 1A); Reflexes 1 (Agility 3: 1M 2A).
- **Talents:** *Shield Wall* (Tier 1, free); *Crowd's Favor* (Tier 2); *Appeal to the Editor* (Tier 2).
- **Kit:** the ludus's thraex kit: sica (Shortsword) and parma (Buckler) (*The Fantasy Armory*); a helmet (Open Helm, Helm 1, *The Armourer*) and two greaves, the matched arena kit (The Arena and the Games, Gladiators and Their Kit). The kit is the ludus's, not his.
- **Strength:** Among the enslaved of any house, estate, school or ship, and in the kitchens and back stairs of the free, once per session: Perception or Streetwise, 1 Boon Die.
- **Record:** eleven bouts; five victories in Rome and one at Capua. He is Known in Rome (Crowd Favor 3 there) and starts at 2 everywhere else. The Arena and the Games, Bithys's Price, shows him later in play, with 2 purses saved.
- **Tongues:** Thracian, and Latin, the house's tongue. He does not read.
- **XP:** characteristics 30, skills 60, talents 20: 110. His next purchase in the book's examples is Melee 3 (15 XP), the rating The Arena and the Games uses.
- **Motive:** Save his lanista's price, 10 purses and the vicesima (The Arena and the Games, Bithys's Price), and walk out of the ludus a free man.
- **Ties to characters:** Fabia bought him and her house sold him to Nerva. Chryseis treated his wounds while the Fabii owned him.
- **Tie to the world:** He has heard what Spartacus did with less, and so has every lanista in Capua.
##### Chryseis, physician and midwife of the Fabii
*Enslaved person Origin, born on Cos; Physician and Midwife Role. Ordo Enslaved, Dignitas 0. Standing: Peculium, 25 HS. Owner and patron: the house of the Fabii; Fabia's father speaks for it.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 11; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 1; **Melee and Ranged Defense** 0; **Initiative:** On Watch 1M 1A; Surprised 0M 2A.
- **Skills:** Medicine 2 (Intellect 4: 2M 2A); Lore 1 (Intellect 4: 1M 3A); Negotiation 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Perception 1 (Savvy 2: 1M 1A).
- **Talents:** *Hippocratic Training* (Tier 1, free); *Household Keys* (Tier 1).
- **Kit:** a surgeon's kit (Gear and Prices); emplastrum (Healing Salve), a poppy draught (Poppy Tincture), Emetic, and wine and vinegar for wounds (Antiseptic) (*The Apothecary*); a Knife (*The Fantasy Armory*).
- **Strength:** Among the enslaved of any house, estate, school or ship, and in the kitchens and back stairs of the free, once per session: Perception or Streetwise, 1 Boon Die.
- **Tongues:** Greek, read and written; Latin, the house's tongue.
- **XP:** characteristics 70, skills 35, talents 5: 110. Negotiation is not a profession skill for her and cost 10.
- **Motive:** Earn her freedom from the house that owns her, by petition or by price (Gear and Prices, Chryseis's Price).
- **Ties to characters:** Fabia, her owner's daughter, takes her where the house needs a physician. She treated Bithys while the house owned him and knows how he heals.
- **Tie to the world:** Pirates took her at seventeen, about 68 BC, the year before Pompey's war on them, and sold her in a slave market of the East. She remembers the dealer's face.
##### Kallias of Alexandria, envoy of the Ptolemaic court
*Egyptian Origin, Envoy and Interpreter Role. Ordo Peregrine; Dignitas 1 among Romans, 3 among Egyptians. Standing: Professional, 675 HS on the king's purse, credit limit 1,350 HS.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 11; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 1; **Melee and Ranged Defense** 0; **Initiative:** On Watch 1M 1A; Surprised 0M 2A.
- **Skills:** Charm 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Lore 2 (Intellect 3: 2M 1A); Negotiation 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Deception 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Perception 1 (Savvy 2: 1M 1A).
- **Talents:** *Dinner Couch* (Tier 1, free); *Abacus Hand* (Tier 1); *Convincing* (Tier 2).
- **Kit:** letters under the royal seal, a writing set and a gift of silver plate that is the king's and not his Stake (Gear and Prices); a Dagger (*The Fantasy Armory*); a litter in place of the horse.
- **Strength:** In Egypt, on the Nile, among its temples and its clerks, once per session: Craft or Negotiation, 1 Boon Die.
- **Tongues:** Egyptian, Greek and Latin; Aramaic for 5 XP. He reads and writes Greek free and Latin for 5 XP (Character Creation and Roles, Kallias's Four Tongues).
- **XP:** characteristics 30, tongues 10, skills 55, talents 15: 110.
- **Motive:** Keep the Roman creditors of the king from calling Egypt's debts, and keep Egypt a kingdom.
- **Ties to characters:** Banona waits on the same Senate, and he has taught her how embassies are heard. Eros reads the Greek accounts of the bankers who hold the king's paper.
- **Tie to the world:** Senator Numa's name is on the roll of the king's Roman creditors.
## Sulpicia and Papirius
The GM plays Sulpicia Maxima. Find her at Vesta's hearth, where people lodge wills and treaties (Gods and Religion, The Vestal Virgins). To play a Vestal, build her in Character Creation and Roles. Allow one per table. For Papirius, use his stat block in Adversaries and his street in Rome, The Subura.
## Ties Among the Characters
Start with the Fabii. Fabia's father owns Chryseis and sponsors Banona. Fabia bought Bithys, her house sold him to Nerva, and Eros holds her note. Banona needs Septimius's testimony. He needs Eros's loan for the farm. Kallias waits beside Banona at the Senate and knows the king's debts as Eros does. With all seven, the Starter Adventure takes the party from the Fabii's morning greeting to Numa's villa near Capua, then back to the Senate. If nobody chooses Banona, the GM plays her and the party takes up her petition.
*Roman citizen Origin, Centurion Role. Ordo Citizen, Dignitas 1. Standing: Professional, 675 HS, credit limit 1,350 HS.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 13; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 4 in his mail (2 without it); **Defense** with the scutum readied, Melee 1 and Ranged 2; **Initiative:** On Watch 0M 2A; Surprised 2M 0A.
- **Skills:** Fortitude 2 (Might 3: 2M 1A); Leadership 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Melee 2 (Might 3: 2M 1A; the gladius's Accurate 1 adds 1 Boon Die); Readiness 2 (Willpower 2: 2M 0A); Athletics 1 (Might 3: 1M 2A); Intimidation 1 (Willpower 2: 1M 1A).
- **Talents:** *Vine Stick* (Tier 1, free); *Shield Wall* (Tier 1); *Marcher* (Tier 1).
- **Kit:** the Centurion's kit: gladius Hispaniensis (Shortsword), two pila (Javelin), pugio (Dagger), scutum (Kite Shield), sudis (Sharpened Stake) and the vine stick (Cudgel) (*The Fantasy Armory*); lorica hamata (Mail Shirt) and a crested helmet (Open Helm) (*The Armourer*); greaves, caligae, a military belt, a pack, a dolabra and rations (Gear and Prices).
- **Strength:** With magistrates' staffs, the tribes at the vote and the people of his own quarter, once per session: Negotiation or Streetwise, 1 Boon Die.
- **Tongues:** Latin, read and written.
- **XP:** characteristics 30, skills 70, talents 10: 110. His next purchase in the book's examples is Front Rank (10 XP).
- **Motive:** Collect the land he was promised and keep his men alive until he does.
- **Ties to characters:** He stood on the outer line at Alesia. In the spring of that year, before the Aedui rose, he marched with the army Banona fed with her people's grain (Legion Battles, Banona and the Aeduan Grain), and she has asked him to tell the Senate so. He means to borrow from Eros for a share in a farm near Cremona (Era Rules, Septimius Borrows from Eros).
- **Tie to the world:** His discharge land depends on a man in Rome he has never met.
*Roman citizen Origin, Senator's House Role. Ordo Senatorial, Dignitas 3. Standing: Senatorial, 12,000 HS, credit limit 24,000 HS, with a creation Debt of 6,000 HS to Eros, due at the end of Februarius.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 11; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 1; **Melee and Ranged Defense** 0; **Initiative:** On Watch 1M 2A; Surprised 0M 2A.
- **Skills:** Lore 2 (Intellect 2: 2M 0A); Negotiation 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Streetwise 2 (Savvy 3: 2M 1A); Charm 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Deception 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Perception 1 (Savvy 3: 1M 2A).
- **Talents:** *Dinner Couch* (Tier 1, free); *Patron's Seal* (Tier 2); *Convincing* (Tier 2).
- **Kit:** the Senator's House kit, with the stola and palla of a woman of her order in place of the toga: a signet ring, a stock of letters, wax tablets (Gear and Prices), a litter with six bearers of the household, and a Riding Horse with Riding saddle and Bridle and bit (*The Stable*). She keeps her father's seal and writes his letters.
- **Strength:** With magistrates' staffs, the tribes at the vote and the people of her own quarter, once per session: Negotiation or Streetwise, 1 Boon Die.
- **Tongues:** Latin, read and written.
- **XP:** characteristics 30, skills 60, talents 20: 110.
- **Motive:** Keep her father's house solvent, allied and on the winning side, and choose her own next husband.
- **Ties to characters:** She bought Bithys and paid Nerva a premium to train him, so that Nerva would speak to Senator Numa for her father; the house has since sold Bithys to Nerva (Character Creation and Roles, Bithys's Origin and Role). Chryseis keeps her father's sickroom and goes where the house's business goes. Eros holds her note for 6,000 HS.
- **Tie to the world:** Senator Numa has not yet given the vote her premium to Nerva was meant to buy.
*Gaul Origin, Envoy and Interpreter Role. Ordo Peregrine; Dignitas 1 among Romans, 3 among the Aedui. Standing: Professional, 675 HS on her council's purse, credit limit 1,350 HS.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 12; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 1; **Melee and Ranged Defense** 0; **Initiative:** On Watch 1M 1A; Surprised 0M 2A.
- **Skills:** Charm 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Negotiation 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Riding 2 (Agility 3: 2M 1A); Fortitude 1 (Might 2: 1M 1A); Leadership 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Lore 1 (Intellect 1: 1M 0A); Perception 1 (Savvy 2: 1M 1A).
- **Talents:** *Interpreter* (Tier 1, free); *Herald's Staff* (Tier 2).
- **Kit:** the Aeduan council's letters under seal, a writing set and a gift of silver plate that is the council's and not her Stake (Gear and Prices); a long knife (Dagger, *The Fantasy Armory*); a Riding Horse with Riding saddle and Bridle and bit (*The Stable*).
- **Strength:** Among her own people, their allies and the Gallic horse, once per session: Riding or Leadership, 1 Boon Die.
- **Tongues:** Gaulish and Latin; Greek and Germanic by Interpreter. She reads and writes Latin.
- **XP:** characteristics 30, skills 70, talents 10: 110. Fortitude is not a profession skill for her and cost 10.
- **Motive:** Win back the lands her house lost when her brother joined the revolt of 52 BC.
- **Ties to characters:** Fabia's father is her patron in Rome. Septimius marched with the army she fed with Aeduan grain in the spring of 52 BC, before the Aedui rose, and can tell the Senate so. Kallias waits on the same Senate and has taught her how embassies are heard.
- **Tie to the world:** Caesar's settlement gave her house's lands to an Aeduan who sided with Rome in 52 BC, and his agent is in Rome.
*Freed person Origin, born in Ephesus; Merchant and Moneylender Role. Ordo Freedman, Dignitas 1. Standing: Professional, 675 HS, credit limit 1,350 HS, with a creation Debt of 6,000 HS to his patron for Fabia's note, due at the end of Februarius.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 11; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 1; **Melee and Ranged Defense** 0; **Initiative:** On Watch 1M 1A; Surprised 0M 2A.
- **Skills:** Lore 2 (Intellect 3: 2M 1A); Negotiation 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Streetwise 2 (Savvy 2: 2M 0A); Deception 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Perception 1 (Savvy 2: 1M 1A).
- **Talents:** *Market Eye* (Tier 1, free); *Abacus Hand* (Tier 1); *Debt Ledger* (Tier 2); *Convincing* (Tier 2).
- **Kit:** an abacus, account rolls, a strongbox, scales and weights (Gear and Prices); a Mule with Pack saddle (*The Stable*); a Knife (*The Fantasy Armory*).
- **Strength:** With other freed people, the trade colleges and his patron's house, once per session: Negotiation or Streetwise, 1 Boon Die.
- **Patron:** Lucius Cornelius, head of the house that freed him; Eros always owes him at least 1 Favor (Era Rules, Patronage and Rank).
- **Tongues:** Latin and Greek; he reads and writes Latin.
- **XP:** characteristics 30, skills 55, talents 25: 110.
- **Motive:** Hold paper on every street that matters, and never stand on a dealer's platform again.
- **Ties to characters:** He lent Fabia's house 6,000 HS of his patron's money. Septimius wants a loan for his farm. He bets on Bithys, and knows his price to the sesterce.
- **Tie to the world:** He reads Greek accounts for the bankers who hold the Egyptian king's debts.
*Enslaved person Origin, born in Thrace; Gladiator and Charioteer Role, a thraex. Ordo Enslaved, Dignitas 0, infamis. Standing: Peculium, 25 HS. Owner and patron: Nerva, the lanista in Capua.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
- **Wound Points** 13; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 3 in the matched arena kit (2 without it); **Defense** with the parma, Melee 1; **Initiative:** On Watch 0M 2A; Surprised 1M 1A.
- **Skills:** Athletics 2 (Might 3: 2M 1A); Fortitude 2 (Might 3: 2M 1A); Melee 2 (Might 3: 2M 1A; the sica's Accurate 1 adds 1 Boon Die); Charm 1 (Charisma 2: 1M 1A); Readiness 1 (Willpower 2: 1M 1A); Reflexes 1 (Agility 3: 1M 2A).
- **Talents:** *Shield Wall* (Tier 1, free); *Crowd's Favor* (Tier 2); *Appeal to the Editor* (Tier 2).
- **Kit:** the ludus's thraex kit: sica (Shortsword) and parma (Buckler) (*The Fantasy Armory*); a helmet (Open Helm, Helm 1, *The Armourer*) and two greaves, the matched arena kit (The Arena and the Games, Gladiators and Their Kit). The kit is the ludus's, not his.
- **Strength:** Among the enslaved of any house, estate, school or ship, and in the kitchens and back stairs of the free, once per session: Perception or Streetwise, 1 Boon Die.
- **Record:** eleven bouts; five victories in Rome and one at Capua. He is Known in Rome (Crowd Favor 3 there) and starts at 2 everywhere else. The Arena and the Games, Bithys's Price, shows him later in play, with 2 purses saved.
- **Tongues:** Thracian, and Latin, the house's tongue. He does not read.
- **XP:** characteristics 30, skills 60, talents 20: 110. His next purchase in the book's examples is Melee 3 (15 XP), the rating The Arena and the Games uses.
- **Motive:** Save his lanista's price, 10 purses and the vicesima (The Arena and the Games, Bithys's Price), and walk out of the ludus a free man.
- **Ties to characters:** Fabia bought him and her house sold him to Nerva. Chryseis treated his wounds while the Fabii owned him.
- **Tie to the world:** He has heard what Spartacus did with less, and so has every lanista in Capua.
*Enslaved person Origin, born on Cos; Physician and Midwife Role. Ordo Enslaved, Dignitas 0. Standing: Peculium, 25 HS. Owner and patron: the house of the Fabii; Fabia's father speaks for it.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 11; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 1; **Melee and Ranged Defense** 0; **Initiative:** On Watch 1M 1A; Surprised 0M 2A.
- **Skills:** Medicine 2 (Intellect 4: 2M 2A); Lore 1 (Intellect 4: 1M 3A); Negotiation 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Perception 1 (Savvy 2: 1M 1A).
- **Talents:** *Hippocratic Training* (Tier 1, free); *Household Keys* (Tier 1).
- **Kit:** a surgeon's kit (Gear and Prices); emplastrum (Healing Salve), a poppy draught (Poppy Tincture), Emetic, and wine and vinegar for wounds (Antiseptic) (*The Apothecary*); a Knife (*The Fantasy Armory*).
- **Strength:** Among the enslaved of any house, estate, school or ship, and in the kitchens and back stairs of the free, once per session: Perception or Streetwise, 1 Boon Die.
- **Tongues:** Greek, read and written; Latin, the house's tongue.
- **XP:** characteristics 70, skills 35, talents 5: 110. Negotiation is not a profession skill for her and cost 10.
- **Motive:** Earn her freedom from the house that owns her, by petition or by price (Gear and Prices, Chryseis's Price).
- **Ties to characters:** Fabia, her owner's daughter, takes her where the house needs a physician. She treated Bithys while the house owned him and knows how he heals.
- **Tie to the world:** Pirates took her at seventeen, about 68 BC, the year before Pompey's war on them, and sold her in a slave market of the East. She remembers the dealer's face.
*Egyptian Origin, Envoy and Interpreter Role. Ordo Peregrine; Dignitas 1 among Romans, 3 among Egyptians. Standing: Professional, 675 HS on the king's purse, credit limit 1,350 HS.*
| Might | Agility | Intellect | Savvy | Willpower | Charisma |
|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
- **Wound Points** 11; **Strain Points** 12; **Resistance** 1; **Melee and Ranged Defense** 0; **Initiative:** On Watch 1M 1A; Surprised 0M 2A.
- **Skills:** Charm 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Lore 2 (Intellect 3: 2M 1A); Negotiation 2 (Charisma 3: 2M 1A); Deception 1 (Charisma 3: 1M 2A); Perception 1 (Savvy 2: 1M 1A).
- **Talents:** *Dinner Couch* (Tier 1, free); *Abacus Hand* (Tier 1); *Convincing* (Tier 2).
- **Kit:** letters under the royal seal, a writing set and a gift of silver plate that is the king's and not his Stake (Gear and Prices); a Dagger (*The Fantasy Armory*); a litter in place of the horse.
- **Strength:** In Egypt, on the Nile, among its temples and its clerks, once per session: Craft or Negotiation, 1 Boon Die.
- **Tongues:** Egyptian, Greek and Latin; Aramaic for 5 XP. He reads and writes Greek free and Latin for 5 XP (Character Creation and Roles, Kallias's Four Tongues).
- **XP:** characteristics 30, tongues 10, skills 55, talents 15: 110.
- **Motive:** Keep the Roman creditors of the king from calling Egypt's debts, and keep Egypt a kingdom.
- **Ties to characters:** Banona waits on the same Senate, and he has taught her how embassies are heard. Eros reads the Greek accounts of the bankers who hold the king's paper.
- **Tie to the world:** Senator Numa's name is on the roll of the king's Roman creditors.
The GM plays Sulpicia Maxima. Find her at Vesta's hearth, where people lodge wills and treaties (Gods and Religion, The Vestal Virgins). To play a Vestal, build her in Character Creation and Roles. Allow one per table. For Papirius, use his stat block in Adversaries and his street in Rome, The Subura.
## Ties Among the Characters
Start with the Fabii. Fabia's father owns Chryseis and sponsors Banona. Fabia bought Bithys, her house sold him to Nerva, and Eros holds her note. Banona needs Septimius's testimony. He needs Eros's loan for the farm. Kallias waits beside Banona at the Senate and knows the king's debts as Eros does. With all seven, the Starter Adventure takes the party from the Fabii's morning greeting to Numa's villa near Capua, then back to the Senate. If nobody chooses Banona, the GM plays her and the party takes up her petition.