DIY Collapsable Dice Tower

02 Friday Dec 2016

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If you’ve been following this site (or my channel) for the last little bit, you’ll know that I’ve started playing Dungeons & Dragons again. Well there’s only so many things you need when playing D&D. One is a dice bag. Which I’ve just made a new version of. And it’s also handy to have a dice tower. Well I’ve made a dice tower before but the problem I run into with that one is that it’s not exactly what you’d describe as “portable”. So I set my mind to it, and I’ve come up with a design that I’m SUPER happy with for a brand new Collapsable Dice Tower.

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It’s definitely more complicated to put together than my original dice tower, but I don’t think overly so. It uses two sections, a tray and a tower, and locks into place using a set of foam core “keys”. I always enjoy it when a design comes into my mind and turns out pretty much exactly the way I envisioned it, and that’s what happened this time. I hope you enjoy it as well!

And of course the real goal here is to have something to blame when I roll nothing but 1s in an evening 🙂 I can’t wait to try it out next session!

Dungeons and Dragons Dice Bag

11 Friday Nov 2016

Posted by allhailskippy in Nerdcrafting

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As I’ve mentioned in my last post, I’ve recently returned to the world of Dungeons & Dragons. I’m about half way through the latest story, Storm Kings Thunder with a fantastic group of people who are part of my Adventurers League group. If you’re on the fence about playing, I highly recommend it. It’s never been easier to get started, and the 5th edition rules are the best they’ve made so far (In my not so humble opinion). So of course, each week I bring my gear with me. Players Handbook. Character sheets. And of course, my dice. And since I’ve been playing for a LONG time, I’ve managed to pick up more than a couple sets. So when deciding what I was going to make next for my nerd crafts, I made the call to make a brand new dice bag.

Now if you’ve been watching my nerdcrafts for a while, you’ll know that I’ve made a few dice bags already. The first was a bag to hold all my small dice bags and the second was based on Evil Mad Scientist’s D20 pattern. The first one was simply too simple for what I wanted. It had a draw string, but I really wanted a zipper. The second has a zipper, but the pattern wasn’t exactly what I had in mind, and is generally a very challenging piece to put together.

I feel this latest dice bag really hits that sweet spot between being too simple, and too complex. It looks great, stays flat and isn’t too crazy to put together. Hopefully you’ll feel the same!

Dungeons and Dragons Iron On Badge

04 Friday Nov 2016

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So I’ve recently (and finally) gotten back into playing Dungeons and Dragons. It’s amazing how much I’ve missed it. I really do enjoy the shared experience of telling a story together with a group of people. Since I don’t know enough people where I am who play D&D, once I made my decision to start again, I had a look around for an Adventurers League group. Fortune smiled upon me, since it turns out that there was a group nearby that was just starting its run of the newest adventure from the folks at Wizards of the Coast, Storm King’s Thunder. Registration was opening soon, and there was a limit of about 20 people to play. Naturally I made sure I was there in plenty of time to ensure I had a seat. In this case, that was being there about 4 hours ahead of schedule. And boy am I glad I was there early. I think there was about 3 people ahead of me in the line, and within the hour, all the available spots had filled right up.

Of course, since I’ve also started putting out new content on my crafting channel, it seemed like an appropriate theme for me to tackle for some new content. So I’m starting off part 1 of a two part set of videos by creating an iron on D&D logo badge. I’ve got something specific in mind for me to put it on, but it’s something you can use on pretty much anything, assuming your anything has about 3″x3″ amount of space to iron on the badge.

If you’re looking to make this, but don’t know how to cross stitch, I’ve put up a cross stitch basics video as well to get you started. I’ve been doing this for at least 25 years now, and I doubt I’ll ever stop. It make take a lot of time to finish a project, but I’m always happy with them when I’m done.

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DIY Collapsable Dice Tower

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Dungeons and Dragons Dice Bag

Dungeons and Dragons Iron On Badge