This is the fifth of a five part series on Crafting Plants and Trees for RPGs. To start at the beginning, click here.
To add interest to your game, you can add small items like tree stumps to your forest. In one recent campaign, I used a tree stump which was topped with a gazing sphere. Touching the sphere triggered a puzzle for the players to solve.
It was easy to craft this tree stump using a simple bottle cap and some cardboard.
Bottle Cap Tree Stumps
Materials
- Bottle cap
- Cardboard for a base
- Hot glue
- Paint
Directions
1. Glue bottle cap to cardboard base.
2. Drag glue from glue gun along the sides of the bottle cap down onto the base to look like tree roots.
3. Swirl glue on the top to look like the growth rings on the tree stump.
4. Paint trunk using several shades of brown paint.When highlighting with a lighter color, hold the paint brush at an angle so you only get light paint on the outside bark.
I topped the tree stump with a colorful marble to look like some kind of magic gazing sphere. Its important to remember that not every encounter must involve monsters. It’s fun to mix things up with puzzles occasionally too.
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