Tabletop Art Litter The Table With Runic Stones & Oil Barrels
April 26, 2016 by dracs
Tabletop Art have a few new terrain accessories for you to shape your tabletop, whether you want it to look like a a Nordic place of worship, or an industrial accident waiting to happen.
Erect a Rune Stone
First, Tabletop Art recently published a preview for a new set of Rune Stones that will be well suited for dark age battlefields.
These are the Rune Stones Sets 1 and 2, with each set being made from resin and featuring a large and small stone, both carved with Nordic runic designs (although I am hoping some ogham could appear in the future too).
Stones like these are a great way to mark out important locations on the battlefield and could make good objectives. They rather put me in mind of some of the art you might see in Banner Saga.
Roll Out The Oil Barrels
Moving away from the splendour of ancient architecture, Tabletop Art have just released a second set of oil barrels.
All these standing stones and oil barrels, the place is starting to look like Stonehenge around the summer solstice.
Oil barrels like these are a simple and effective way to break up open ground in skirmish level games and give a setting a bit more character. These pieces look particularly battered, you could imagine them being found in run down alleyways or around an old industrial complex.
Will you set up Tabletop Art's upcoming rune stones on your table? Or will you choose to litter it with oil barrels?
"They rather put me in mind of some of the art you might see in Banner Saga..."
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I love that range…
Some of the stones have actual Norse runes on them. Can anyone translate what they say?
Just when I’m part way through a stone circle with mostly real stones. Ah well.
These are authentic viking inscriptions from runestones found in Sweden and other countries. I do not read old norse, but from what Wikipedia and I can tell, from right to left : “Tóla had this stone raised in memory of her son Haraldr, Ingvarr’s brother. They travelled valiantly far for gold, and in the east gave (food) to the eagle. (They) died in the south in Serkland.” (I am unsure of which stone the second one is copied from, maybe it is an original script) “Anund (name) and Torgils (name) they let to raise this stone after Åsgöt (name)” “Tóki,… Read more »