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I was reading up on Kaer Maga in "City of Stranger", and perhaps I overlooked some things, but this is how I see the city:
The city is shaped like a gigantic hexagon.
The outer "ring" of this hexagon is covered by a large, fortified roof.
The outer ring consists of multiple levels, making it essentially a singular multi-storied building (kind of like the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.).
A portion of the hexagon's outer ring has collapsed in on itself, forming what is now a shopping district.
Another portion of the hexagon's outer ring's inner levels have collapsed on themselves, so that buildings are built on the remaining tiers.
My questions: if I have the architecture of Kaer Maga correct, (1) exactly how many "levels" does the outer ring consist of?
(2) And how high are the levels from floor to ceiling? I can imagine that some of the levels are more tall than others, since Kaer Maga once acted as Shalast's version of Alcatraz and some of the larger, non-human prisoners required more space than others.
And (3), like most modern prisons, were the multiple levels/tiers open air, or did the floor of the upper level cover the lower levels as their ceilings?
Help would be appreciated, because I want to soon run some adventures for my players in Kaer Maga, and I want to be able to explain the architecture to them.
The answers to your questions are pretty much 'How do you want it?'
I can think of three published Modules that take place in Kaer Maga & only one of those has more than simple investigation/RP happening at/above ground level, the other two mostly focused on 'dungeons' below Kaer Maga.
The three are; 'Seven Swords of Sin', which actually is the first introduction to Kaer Maga, but it doesn't show much of the city besides a very rough overall map; the 'Godsmouth Heresy', which takes place almost completely in the Godsmouth Ossuary below the city; and the 'Asylum Stone', the third part of Shattered Star, which is also the first module I am aware of to have anything much happen in the City proper itself.
I believe the levels of the 'sound' interiors are probably equivalent to three/four storey's each with two/three levels per 'neighborhood/quarter', but that could easily be only my interpretation.
Check out this thread for a link to pictures of a 3-D model Varthanna made of the city for his home game.
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nssq?Kaer-Maga-City-of-Strangers-model
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The answers to your questions are pretty much 'How do you want it?'
I can think of three published Modules that take place in Kaer Maga & only one of those has more than simple investigation/RP happening at/above ground level, the other two mostly focused on 'dungeons' below Kaer Maga.
The three are; 'Seven Swords of Sin', which actually is the first introduction to Kaer Maga, but it doesn't show much of the city besides a very rough overall map; the 'Godsmouth Heresy', which takes place almost completely in the Godsmouth Ossuary below the city; and the 'Asylum Stone', the third part of Shattered Star, which is also the first module I am aware of to have anything much happen in the City proper itself.
I believe the levels of the 'sound' interiors are probably equivalent to three/four storey's each with two/three levels per 'neighborhood/quarter', but that could easily be only my interpretation.
Kaer Maga is also the setting of three Pathfinder Society Scenarios...
PFS Scenario #51: The Shadow Gambit
PFS Scenario #52: The Twofold Demise
PFS Scenario #4-10: Feast of Sigils
Dot for later.