Marble Dais 3D model
Marble Dais 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
- 5 ft by 5 ft, 1 ft tall (covers about 1 by 1 squares)
- Format
- GLB (binary glTF 2.0)
- File size
- 75 KB
About this model
A low square platform of white marble, about 1 ft high and 5 ft on each side. Its top is smooth and pale, with gentle grey veins, and its edges are clean and crisp.
Use it to raise a throne, a statue, an altar or a speaker above the rest of a room. Several placed together make a stage or a wide platform in a ballroom. At the table it is a small but useful height difference: the person on it is the obvious centre of attention, and climbing it in the middle of a melee is a clear choice that players will remember.
Ideas for the table
- A duke addresses his court from a marble dais while an imp waits beneath it.
- A summoning circle drawn on a dais flares as the party bursts in.
- At a masked ball, the dais holds a prize that every guest wants and only one will leave with.
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