So i know the monk in my campaign is itching for some good old fighting....i'm working on a fighting arena to throw somewhere in an underdark town/city i have also been fleshing out - a kinda of waypoint between world above ground and the hellish depths below where drow and worse dwell. Anyway, here's where i'm at on this so far.....i've got to work on staircases to get the spectators up and dress up the place altogether. Maybe a pit? The wheels are spinning.....

still working things out...

How about a soccer game with an elf's head?

Wow, just amazing. And I love the blood on the floor, but still no elf's head. You are a true artist Lorelei.

To block them from wandering off where I don't want them to go, I put up 'Under Construction ! Beware the Gru !' signs.

After a second look, and a nudge from my favorite Eagle Eye, i adjust some of the shadows. Seems i had a drop shadow still in effect and the large mushrooms had their own shadows that were interfering with my designated shadows....so here's an update and the final product. I'll be using this on a VTT as it is too big to print up poster size. It'll be sometime before they are in the city i have planned this for, but they will get there for sure, as it is the only city in the Darkbelow in my world that is "neutral" and trade between all races, good an evil can happen here

Thanks, and sure Quenten, here's a link to a high res copy of the Creed of the Battlemind

Well the more i looked at it once pointed out, the more it irked me.... I made some minor "adjustments" at the suggestion of my favorite resident guru - alas, some of them i am unable to fix without putting serious effort into making adjustments to the symbol pngs themselves - which i have NO intention of doing for a map my players will only care about what is coming out of those tunnels to fight them, and NOTHING else, lol. For instance, the wagon above has a darker shade on top giving it the appearance of a shadow, however, that symbol ALREADY has its own shadow casting downward, which is why i placed it there (so my directional shadow would cover the symbols own - which is why i don't use the Global Direction, i choose my own). Same goes for the Mushrooms - even with the "glare" on top suggesting a light direction, the symbols have their own shadows casting in the same direction (315 degrees)....

So, hope you like the improvements :)

Since you mentioned this would be underground, shadows could fall from very different angles. Probably all light would be artificially placed or if you go with the glowing fungi all over the place there would be no predominant global sun. In that case shadows might be greatly diminished.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. I gather your players are similar to mine and don't really pay much attention to the map, except for the initial, "Oh, that's cool" comment.