"Hexagonal Gladiator Arena?" Topic

All,
I am asking this august group for opinions. I have a plastic frame that would otherwise be trash. It is 12 inches from point to point, 10 inches side to side. It is a Hexagon, it occurred to me that this would make a very neat Gladiator arena, though I don't believe one ever existed that was hexagonal. What do you all think?

Nick

I made a gladiator board using Heroscape hex tiles, sand coloured of course.

I'm talking about the outside shape of the arena.

Who is to say one wasnt

Heroscape tiles or Melee ones should easily work

Some years back, I bought a table lamp that was packaged with a piece of foam that already looked like a round coliseum. I added some marble and sandstone printed paper and a few doll house roof tiles and it looked great. As I don't play gladiators, I sold it on e-bay for $60. USD

Wanna fight about it? See you in the arena!

Roman arenas were oval or round. So what? Just have the gladiators enter from two opposite corners and it will look/act enough like an oval or round arena for gaming purposes.

Maybe craft some entryways into two opposite corners to visually emphasize the illusion.

As long as the arena floor is sand and the walls are stone and the gladiators bleed and die, nobody will care about a few extra obtuse corners.

- Ix

Give it a steel floor and call it a sci-fi gladiatorial arena.