Shadowfey Ruins – modular stacking buildings

The Shadowfey Ruins cover the haunted landscape, providing some shelter in the realm of darkness and despair. In this article, we demonstrate how the ruins were designed to stack, creating a modular set of buildings and a wide range of layouts.

Out in the Shadowfey, everything is ruined, from cracked stone to rotting timber to teetering parapets to unstable walkways.

The magic of the models in the Shadowfey ruins range is that they don’t just sit there; they stack. They are designed to fit together seamlessly by stacking along broken cracks in the buildings. This avoids obvious join lines in the buildings and makes really immersive boards. Each level is its own ruin.

Adding the levels doesn’t just add height to the buildings; it tells the story of how it was destroyed. You can choose the level of decay you want for your story.

You can leave the buildings as the first floor to create jagged foundations of a city in utter ruin. Maybe tanks have rolled through, or a dragon laid siege to it, or just time itself wore it down.

Add a level or two to climb through toppled chambers and splintered beams, adding some vertical risk to your combats.

Add the final layer for rooftop skirmishes and daring leaps into combat.

Removing the building layers is a great way to reveal hidden treasures or deadly ambushes inside. Each level can present different degrees of danger, whether your adventurers are climbing or descending deeper.

Shadowfey is a playground of ruins that you can build and build again and never have the same terrain twice. And it always looks epic.

You can find our Shadowfey Terrain here. For painting the Shadowfey Ruins we have this guide. And here is a guide on putting the Shadowfey ruins together.