RPGs tend to use dice, lots of 'em! So, it's common to find, as part of a gamer's collection, some tools and gadgets specially designed to ease all that rolling.
The two most common are dice trays and dice towers. However, buying them can be expensive, and depending on where you live, getting either of those can cost a bit of $$$.
Of course, there's always an alternative because with a little bit of patience, and some random household items, you can craft a dice tower and a dice tray yourself!
After searching all over the web for possible methods of crafting (and pretty much discarding all those that required complex carpentry tools or other advanced skills), I found two wonderful solutions.
DICE TRAY:
For the first one, all you need is a cheap photo frame, some felt fabric (or any other type of fabric that has some soft thickness to it), and a pair of scissors.
Essentially, all you have to do is to remove the glass from the frame, and instead of framing a picture, you will be framing your felt fabric! You can use the scissors to help you trim the excess fabric from the back. It's as easy and cheap as it gets. Here's the video from which I took the idea:
DICE TOWER:
For the second one, all you need is a standard-sized can of Pringles (the small one unfortunately won't do), some wooden skewers (3 of them is more than enough), adhesive tape or some hot silicon, a cutter, and a piece of cardboard. There are more materials in the video, but they're for cosmetic purposes, which you may or may not require.
The audio quality of the video is not the best, but if you watch it once, you'll get it how it's done because it's not a complicated process.
I also used a pointy screw to help me in the process of opening the little holes for the skewers to be placed, and a plastic cap to draw a small circle. You'll see what I mean if you watch this video:
I can tell you that both of those crafts work as they're intended. In fact, I've made my own.
Here's some gifs showing how both dice tower and dice tray work in tandem.
I hope this may give you some ideas!
Enjoy!
The two most common are dice trays and dice towers. However, buying them can be expensive, and depending on where you live, getting either of those can cost a bit of $$$.
Of course, there's always an alternative because with a little bit of patience, and some random household items, you can craft a dice tower and a dice tray yourself!
After searching all over the web for possible methods of crafting (and pretty much discarding all those that required complex carpentry tools or other advanced skills), I found two wonderful solutions.
DICE TRAY:
For the first one, all you need is a cheap photo frame, some felt fabric (or any other type of fabric that has some soft thickness to it), and a pair of scissors.
Essentially, all you have to do is to remove the glass from the frame, and instead of framing a picture, you will be framing your felt fabric! You can use the scissors to help you trim the excess fabric from the back. It's as easy and cheap as it gets. Here's the video from which I took the idea:
For the second one, all you need is a standard-sized can of Pringles (the small one unfortunately won't do), some wooden skewers (3 of them is more than enough), adhesive tape or some hot silicon, a cutter, and a piece of cardboard. There are more materials in the video, but they're for cosmetic purposes, which you may or may not require.
The audio quality of the video is not the best, but if you watch it once, you'll get it how it's done because it's not a complicated process.
I also used a pointy screw to help me in the process of opening the little holes for the skewers to be placed, and a plastic cap to draw a small circle. You'll see what I mean if you watch this video:
Here's some gifs showing how both dice tower and dice tray work in tandem.
I hope this may give you some ideas!
Enjoy!
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