Gravestone Slab 3D model
Gravestone Slab from the Realistic Surfaces & Structure pack in TerrainTale's library. Place it on the grid to add height or cover; the ruler counts the elevation it creates.
- Folder
- Stairs, pillars and structure
- Pack
- Realistic Surfaces & Structure
- Author
- ambientCG; trees grown with ez-tree by Daniel Greenheck (MIT)
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
- Size
- 2.5 ft by 1 ft, 3 ft tall (covers about 1 by 1 squares)
- Format
- GLB (binary glTF 2.0)
- File size
- 175 KB
About this model
A flat-topped, square-shouldered grave marker of mossy stone on a low plinth. Its face is mottled green and grey, with blocky masonry showing through the growth. It measures about 2.5 ft across, 1 ft thick and 3 ft high, a little over waist height for a person.
The square profile reads as plainer and older than a rounded headstone, so it suits pauper burials, battlefield graves and abandoned village churchyards. On the grid it works as low cover and as an obstacle that channels movement. Put a few in a tight cluster to make a maze of narrow lanes where melee fighters must pick their route.
Ideas for the table
- A row of plain slabs marks soldiers who fell in a siege, and one of them is empty.
- Grave robbers have levered a slab off its plinth, leaving a gap where something has crawled out.
- A wight commands skeletons from behind a ring of grave slabs, forcing the party to fight their way in one lane at a time.
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