Marble Column 3D model
Marble Column 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 ft by 2 ft, 7 ft tall (covers about 1 by 1 squares)
- Format
- GLB (binary glTF 2.0)
- File size
- 79 KB
About this model
A slender white marble column with a square base and square capital, the shaft smooth and lightly veined. It is about 2 ft square in footprint and 7 ft tall, standing a little taller than a human and occupying part of one square.
Line a hall with pairs of these for a palace, a temple of a lawful god, a library or a bathhouse. In a fight each column breaks line of sight and gives cover to someone standing behind it, so a colonnade becomes a game of moving from pillar to pillar. Lights placed between them cast long shadows across the floor that make the space feel grand.
Ideas for the table
- Assassins hide behind the columns of a throne room as the queen gives audience.
- A columned bathhouse floods during a fight, and the party use the pillars to stay out of a water elemental's reach.
- One column in a sealed temple is false, and turning its capital opens the reliquary.
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