Okay, I don't have the book in front of me, but I'm pretty sure my memory is good enough for this question...
The Spike Pit is a tile that is placed on TOP of the bigger "Old Wall" tile from the Base game. I loved that idea! Unfortunately, it confused me a bit.
The Spike pit is surrounded by a black border. After a bit of a discussion, we took this to mean that it's surrounded by a wall, which meant that we couldn't count spaces from the Old Wall to the Spike Pit (because you can't count spaces through a wall), and abilities that work on other heroes sharing the same tile also would not work. In particular, I am referring to Astarra's ability to teleport, and Raythen's ability to allow other Heroes to use his stats to test a skill.
Was this a correct ruling?