A necessary part of playing Dungeons & Dragons, dedicated gamers have been employing dice towers to make their dice-rolling easier and fairer.
Dice often have a mind of their own and will run amok if a player isn’t careful. Tabletop gamers have likely experienced dice scattering across the table or even falling on the floor. Dice towers solve that problem by funneling dice into a tray. Towers are also employed to prevent cheating, taking away a roller’s opportunity to flub their rolls. Dice towers – usually built to resemble a castle – have an opening at the top where the dice are placed, as well as a vertical tower that the dice will funnel into. Dice towers also have a tray at the bottom that catches the dice and displays the results for those at the table. And while dice towers are known to prevent D&D cheating while rolling dice, they also allow D&D players to roll their dice in style.
Reddit People_Milkshake created their own D&D dice tower, dubbing it the “College Student Edition.” The D&D dice tower was seemingly made on a budget using a Quaker oatmeal box and additional cardboard to funnel the die onto the table. The Quaker oatmeal box had a small opening on the top where the die could be dropped in, and a long vertical snout that funneled the die toward the bottom. At the cardboard base, the die had space to drop out and onto a playmat that prevented the die from sliding across the table.
The budget dice tower is a great example of Dungeons & Dragons players using creativity to solve problems – like one party that skipped Curse of Strahd’s Castle Ravenloft. D&D dice towers are often expensive add-ons to an already pricey game. Quality wooden dice towers can run anywhere from the low twenties to over a hundred dollars, with some dice towers selling for more than that. Requiring most players to purchase sourcebooks, dice sets, miniatures, and maps, playing Dungeons & Dragons can be expensive. People_Milkshake’s budget dice tower proves that some accessories can be crafted instead of purchased, saving a lot of money while achieving similar results.
Some players enjoy expressing themselves with their dice towers, employing dragons skulls, castle towers, and other cool designs to roll their dice in style. Others, like People_Milkshake, may be more inclined to stick to a budget, using their crafting skills to make their own D&D dice tower.
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