Stone Altar 3D model
Stone Altar 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 3 ft, 3 ft tall (covers about 1 by 1 squares)
- Format
- GLB (binary glTF 2.0)
- File size
- 175 KB
About this model
A heavy altar built from rough, mossy stone blocks with a thick slab top, green lichen creeping over the masonry. It is about 5 ft long, 3 ft deep and 3 ft tall, a full square wide and waist high.
It belongs in old shrines, druid circles, forgotten temples and dungeon chapels to dark gods. Its weight and size make it good solid cover and an obvious objective in a fight. Put candles or a brazier on it and the light throws hard shadows across the stones around, which helps any ritual scene feel tense.
Ideas for the table
- Kobolds offer stolen sheep on a mossy altar to a dragon that has not visited in years.
- An ancient stone altar still hums with power and grants a boon to whoever bleeds on it first.
- The party must stop a ritual on a shrine altar in the middle of a storm, with lightning drawn to the stones.
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