Spade 3D model
Spade from the Poly Haven Props pack in TerrainTale's library. Scatter it to dress a scene or give the fight cover; it stands on whatever is under it.
- Folder
- Props and clutter
- Pack
- Poly Haven Props
- Author
- Poly Haven
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
- Size
- 6 in by 0 in, 3.5 ft tall (covers about 1 by 1 squares)
- Format
- GLB (binary glTF 2.0)
- File size
- 380 KB
About this model
A plain digging spade with a long wooden shaft and a flat iron blade, worn dark from use. It is about 3.5 ft long and almost no thickness, a slim prop that fits anywhere on a square.
Lean it against a farmhouse wall, stick it upright in a fresh grave, or leave it by a half-dug trench at a mining camp. It fits fantasy, historical and modern scenes alike. On the map it is mainly a storytelling detail that tells players someone was digging here, though a desperate character can always swing it as an improvised weapon.
Ideas for the table
- A spade stands in a freshly turned plot at the churchyard, and the grave beside it is empty.
- Bandits forced villagers to dig a pit trap across the road, and one abandoned spade marks where they stopped work.
- A gravedigger's spade, left by the cemetery gate, is the only weapon a frightened commoner can reach when the dead rise.
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