Stone Pillar 3D model
Stone Pillar 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
- 1.5 ft by 1.5 ft, 7 ft tall (covers about 1 by 1 squares)
- Format
- GLB (binary glTF 2.0)
- File size
- 174 KB
About this model
A slim square pillar of mossy grey masonry, built from stacked blocks rather than carved from one piece. It is about 1.5 ft on each side and 7 ft tall. The stacked courses and green growth make it look like part of the original building rather than a later repair.
Use it in dungeons, cellars, crypts and ruined halls where stone holds up the ceiling. Several in a grid create a crypt or undercroft with poor sight lines and many places to hide. Each pillar gives cover to whoever stands behind it, which turns a simple room into a tense fight of flanking and ambush.
Ideas for the table
- Ghouls wait behind the pillars of a crypt undercroft and strike as the party lights torches.
- A dungeon chamber's pillars are rigged to collapse if the wrong one is struck.
- The party plays a deadly game of hide and seek with an invisible stalker among mossy pillars.
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