Editing Morturi: The Lanista and the School (section)

=1. Determine Budget=

First, determine how much gold you have available to build your school.

By default, in a pick-up match a School will have '''Five Thousand Denarii'''. 

In a campaign game, a School instead starts with '''Ten Thousand Denarii'''.

A single ''denarius'' is thought to be equivalent in buying power to US$20 in modern day terms, and an ordinary slave would cost as little as 250 denarii, with trained or proven gladiators often holding much higher values. 

In a pick-up match, players might agree to vary the starting value of their schools, to allow for grand spectacles and small skirmishes, or to allow a more experienced lanista to deliberately handicap himself.