i have in the past and really liked mine
but it was made of foam and was big and delicate so it was a pain in the ass to travel with
i just use a dice tray now but i'd like to find a good easy to setup foldable/collapsible dice tower design to print
anyone have anything good?
came here to ask for good tower print ideas too. thingiverse has some skulls and shit but is there anything else that could double up as something else like a coaster without making one myself?
It's SO easy to 3d model something composed of simple shapes dude. Just give it a try. They even have in browser ones. I literally built all the pipes and filters for my 55 gallon aquarium with it and had zero experience beforehand.
I was given one as a gift, used it a couple times now it just sits on my desk with my other things that I like. It's cool and all, I just don't find it practical enough to use instead of just rolling into my dice tray
I prefer a dice tray that's lined with felt so that the dice don't make too much noise when they land. Unless you make the tower yourself or get a pricey one, they can be incredibly loud. Also can be another item to forget when going to a game versus a tray where I can also use it to carry all of my crap.
My friend actually bought one a couple of months back. Pic rel actually lights up. Sometimes he will take a rip from a bong or his vape and blow the smoke through the head to come out the entrance at the bottom.
I have a transparent one that I use behind a DM screen. It makes good use of space (proper rolls in a small footprint) and I can read the screen's notes through it. It's a complete luxury and a dice cup or any small dish would probably do just fine, or even the table surface as long as I'm careful not to roll into the crease of my book or something.
no i use folding dice trays. All my GM supplies except my laminated grid mat fit inside a laptop bag so I can take it on the train, dice towers are just too bulky.
I've never been a fan of the small dice with the rounded edges. I can't honestly put my finger on what it is I hate about them though.
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i know what you mean, but we cant all aford to shell out for 4 sets of these
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I don't like metal dice either. I like those sharp edged casino dice. Pure white with black dots on all 6 faces.
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>pure white
Casino dice are a translucent red and are 'precision' cut so each face is weighted identically after adding paint. They're also thrown out after like 1000 rolls or something.
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>They're also thrown out after like 1000 rolls or something
why though? wouldn’t they get worn down equally? or is it just for the sake of aesthetic standards?
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>wouldn't they get worn evenly?
No way of knowing that. They do the same thing with playing cards. I'd imagine it's easier and cheaper, and more consistent to keep a monthly restock of dice and cards than it is to trust someone to quality assurance every die periodically. You can buy discarded playing cards, but I don't know if you can buy discarded casino dice.
And I'm sure aesthetic standard also plays into it. There's something special about the crisp edge of a precision die that has an appeal.
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They have to set an arbitrary cut-off point so that they can swap stuff out before it might be marred enough to not possibly be as fair/random as possible or in the case of cards worn enough to possibly be noticeable and work like marked cards. They could do a QC check, but just swapping them with new ones is probably way cheaper and faster
>wouldn't they get worn evenly?
No way of knowing that. They do the same thing with playing cards. I'd imagine it's easier and cheaper, and more consistent to keep a monthly restock of dice and cards than it is to trust someone to quality assurance every die periodically. You can buy discarded playing cards, but I don't know if you can buy discarded casino dice.
And I'm sure aesthetic standard also plays into it. There's something special about the crisp edge of a precision die that has an appeal.
You can buy discarded casino dice, but it's usually sold through their gift shops and more expensive because of it.
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>wouldn’t they get worn down equally?
No. Once a wear point starts on a surface, wear tends to accumulate faster in that location. For instance, crack propogation.
The ends of cracks are stress concentrators and it's generally easier for energy to extend an existing crack than make a new one. That's why insurance companies will offer "free" windshield crack repairs.
The windshield vibrates all over when you drive. The crack represents a weak point and rather than just get lost as heat or noise or making the air or another part of the car shake, energy from the windshield vibration gets expended extending the existing crack or chip to the point of windshield failure. For the sort of materials that windshields and dice are made from cracks only grow, they don't shrink, so it's cheaper to repair the crack than replace the whole windshield.
Dice wear down by chipping/spalling, which is obviously due to cracks, and by abrasion, which is also due to the material cracking albeit multiple small locations at once. (Each little bit of dust, be it plastic from a die, sawdust from sawing, wood dust from sanding is a fragment that was broken off due to force being localised and a crack extending until a small part is no longer connected to the main body.) While over thousands of dice you'd expect similar wear patterns distributed equally across all faces, on any particular die the wear would be more concentrated on one, two (at an edge) or three (a vertice) faces than the others.
The same principle of wear accumulation applies to runs in stockings, chips of paint, the little nick or cut made in easy tear plastic food packs. Preferntially, any pre-exsiting flaw in a material tends to get worse over time until failure rather than a new defect being created.
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>'precision' cut so each face is weighted identically after adding paint.
Nowadays they just drill the pips and backfill with white epoxy that has functionally identical properties to the rest of the die.
I want to run a D&D hack where commoners roll d6 (instead of d20) for their actions. Elite characters roll d8, then graduate to d10, then d12, then when they become gods they finally get to roll d20s again.
I would need a dice tower for this because the d8 is the most unsatisfying dice for rolling one at a time.
I have one and I love using it!
But every actual tabletop game I've played in the last 6 years was either online like roll20 or on client like TTS.
i have in the past and really liked mine
but it was made of foam and was big and delicate so it was a pain in the ass to travel with
i just use a dice tray now but i'd like to find a good easy to setup foldable/collapsible dice tower design to print
anyone have anything good?
came here to ask for good tower print ideas too. thingiverse has some skulls and shit but is there anything else that could double up as something else like a coaster without making one myself?
It's SO easy to 3d model something composed of simple shapes dude. Just give it a try. They even have in browser ones. I literally built all the pipes and filters for my 55 gallon aquarium with it and had zero experience beforehand.
I mean yes I can model and could do one but I thought of first browsing the net for a ready made one
That's npc behavior.
what? why would I do work that could already have been done
I usually edit or do something to personalise my prints tho
seem annoying for rolling more than one dice at a time
most are bigger and handle as many dice as you can throw at them
Actually the benefit is with more dice simply dumps them in and they come out rolled.
>simply dumps them in and they come out rolled.
yeah, that’s how dice work, Black person
I was given one as a gift, used it a couple times now it just sits on my desk with my other things that I like. It's cool and all, I just don't find it practical enough to use instead of just rolling into my dice tray
I use a dice tray
I prefer a dice tray that's lined with felt so that the dice don't make too much noise when they land. Unless you make the tower yourself or get a pricey one, they can be incredibly loud. Also can be another item to forget when going to a game versus a tray where I can also use it to carry all of my crap.
My friend actually bought one a couple of months back. Pic rel actually lights up. Sometimes he will take a rip from a bong or his vape and blow the smoke through the head to come out the entrance at the bottom.
That thing is fricking cursed.
Looks like some homosexual shit critical role would try to sell you.
This, the only people I've met who own one are the same people who buy funkypops.
they predate critical role by about 1500 years, try not to be so mindlessly obsessive.
Why do all these commercial dice towers look like AIDS ?
it's more of a board game thing than a ttrpg thing
though i can imagine it being a godsend for vampire or shadowrun
The one in Wingspan serves a purpose at least
No, because I don't have lego pieces to make this
that's real nice. I usually don't like loud towers
I have a transparent one that I use behind a DM screen. It makes good use of space (proper rolls in a small footprint) and I can read the screen's notes through it. It's a complete luxury and a dice cup or any small dish would probably do just fine, or even the table surface as long as I'm careful not to roll into the crease of my book or something.
no i use folding dice trays. All my GM supplies except my laminated grid mat fit inside a laptop bag so I can take it on the train, dice towers are just too bulky.
printed myself one of these badboys
you can really go crazy with 20 dices
That looks like it could handle 6 dice at once, max.
didn't realized mine was scaled differently, here's a better picture with 30 dice
Are those the tiny little d6s?
i think they're 16mm. they just say "standard dice"
I've never been a fan of the small dice with the rounded edges. I can't honestly put my finger on what it is I hate about them though.
i know what you mean, but we cant all aford to shell out for 4 sets of these
I don't like metal dice either. I like those sharp edged casino dice. Pure white with black dots on all 6 faces.
>pure white
Casino dice are a translucent red and are 'precision' cut so each face is weighted identically after adding paint. They're also thrown out after like 1000 rolls or something.
>They're also thrown out after like 1000 rolls or something
why though? wouldn’t they get worn down equally? or is it just for the sake of aesthetic standards?
>wouldn't they get worn evenly?
No way of knowing that. They do the same thing with playing cards. I'd imagine it's easier and cheaper, and more consistent to keep a monthly restock of dice and cards than it is to trust someone to quality assurance every die periodically. You can buy discarded playing cards, but I don't know if you can buy discarded casino dice.
And I'm sure aesthetic standard also plays into it. There's something special about the crisp edge of a precision die that has an appeal.
They have to set an arbitrary cut-off point so that they can swap stuff out before it might be marred enough to not possibly be as fair/random as possible or in the case of cards worn enough to possibly be noticeable and work like marked cards. They could do a QC check, but just swapping them with new ones is probably way cheaper and faster
You can buy discarded casino dice, but it's usually sold through their gift shops and more expensive because of it.
>wouldn’t they get worn down equally?
No. Once a wear point starts on a surface, wear tends to accumulate faster in that location. For instance, crack propogation.
The ends of cracks are stress concentrators and it's generally easier for energy to extend an existing crack than make a new one. That's why insurance companies will offer "free" windshield crack repairs.
The windshield vibrates all over when you drive. The crack represents a weak point and rather than just get lost as heat or noise or making the air or another part of the car shake, energy from the windshield vibration gets expended extending the existing crack or chip to the point of windshield failure. For the sort of materials that windshields and dice are made from cracks only grow, they don't shrink, so it's cheaper to repair the crack than replace the whole windshield.
Dice wear down by chipping/spalling, which is obviously due to cracks, and by abrasion, which is also due to the material cracking albeit multiple small locations at once. (Each little bit of dust, be it plastic from a die, sawdust from sawing, wood dust from sanding is a fragment that was broken off due to force being localised and a crack extending until a small part is no longer connected to the main body.) While over thousands of dice you'd expect similar wear patterns distributed equally across all faces, on any particular die the wear would be more concentrated on one, two (at an edge) or three (a vertice) faces than the others.
The same principle of wear accumulation applies to runs in stockings, chips of paint, the little nick or cut made in easy tear plastic food packs. Preferntially, any pre-exsiting flaw in a material tends to get worse over time until failure rather than a new defect being created.
>'precision' cut so each face is weighted identically after adding paint.
Nowadays they just drill the pips and backfill with white epoxy that has functionally identical properties to the rest of the die.
No.
Leather Dice cups are the patrician rolling implement.
No, I have a penis and use it.
that's not a very nice way to talk about your husband
I want to run a D&D hack where commoners roll d6 (instead of d20) for their actions. Elite characters roll d8, then graduate to d10, then d12, then when they become gods they finally get to roll d20s again.
I would need a dice tower for this because the d8 is the most unsatisfying dice for rolling one at a time.
my dice are too powerful and my hands too spindly