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Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:36 pm Looking for maps or floorplans for underneath an arena

The PCs in my Istivin-based campaign are getting suspicious that something is up at the Circus (the Istivin gladiatorial arena) and want to explore the area underneath (where the monsters are being held).

Can anyone suggest a product or adventure I could borrow a map or floorplans for the area underneath the Circus?

I've been using the Paizo flip-mat Arena for the actual above-ground Circus, but I don't have anything prepared for underground.

I'd rather not use the City of Greyhawk under-arena stuff from Age of Worms, as I'd like to DM that soon for the same group.

Are there any other arenas I could borrow a floorplan from?

Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:56 pm

DDA1 Arena of Thyatis has a good map.

Or you could look at pictures of the dungeons beneath actual Roman colosseums.

Wed Jul 06, 2016 5:22 pm

Thanks, Rasgon! I've never looked at that Thyatis one, so that's a good catch.

I've been looking at online maps of the Roman hypogeum (beneath the Colosseum) and am enticed by them, but unless someone has worked them up on a grid, I have to pass. They're very interesting adventuring environments, though.

Wed Jul 06, 2016 5:52 pm

Arena of Thyatis has maps of the Coliseum's seating level, ground level, upper basement, upper caverns, and lower basement.

Its sequel, Legions of Thyatis, extends the map of the upper basement into an extensive catacombs area.

Thu Jul 07, 2016 10:35 am

The adventure Pandemonium in the Veins in Dungeon 96 has arena maps and underground areas as I recall.

Thu Jul 07, 2016 4:54 pm

Yeah, the Circus is described in the Dungeon #117 article on Istivin. And, as a matter of fact, that half-orc gladiator god, Nazarn, is going to show up at the games (in disguise, among the prisoners).

Speaking of that, I seem to remember that Rasgon did some 3e write-ups of the old quasi-deities (Heward or Murlynd or Keoghtom) somewhere. I'd love to reference those, if they're still available, when I stat up Nazarn.

Or if anyone else knows of 3e stats for quasi-deities, I'd love to see them. I'm trying to get an idea of what the power of these figures should be in third edition/Pathfinder terms.

Thu Jul 07, 2016 5:36 pm

My Heward stats: http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1871

Thu Jul 07, 2016 6:45 pm

Thanks again, Rasgon! If anyone has any ideas on stats for Nazarn, I'd love to hear them . . .