Gladiator

Gladiator is a Background in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Gladiators can start with:
 * +0 rapier, flail, war axe, trident, long sword, quarterstaff or unarmed
 * +0 Leather armour
 * 3 throwing nets
 * Bread ration

Strategy
Gladiators are the only background that can start with a quarterstaff. In addition, throwing nets are fairly reliable tools to lock down and paralyse enemies.