I have the first of the Dice Tower prototypes set up. In PT’ing it out of foam core I fixed a few things with my paper design. Things like:Â to account for the larger vegas craps sized d6′s I use I need to add an inch or so to the height to remove any chance of them getting stuck, the catch tray really doesn’t need to be as long as the tower is tall. Even 10 big d6′s fit fine when I put a divider in halfway down. The sides can be very short, the dice really don’t launch all that far. Â I suppose if you were playing Exalted or high end Champions or any other game where you roll big handfuls of dice this might need a big tray.
Here are some ‘during construction’ shots as well. The prototype is made of 3/16′s foam core board available at any office supply or craft store or you might find some at a Walmart or Target style store sold as a science project folder. It cuts easily with any razor style knife, I used a rotary wheel cutter as I find that’s vastly superior for cutting long straight cuts that you need to glue together without any wavy edges or slanted butt surfaces.
As you can hopefully see from the below I went with 4 ramps and a drawbridge front rather than a tower and tray approach that many have. Once I finalize on a design it will of course have a closed front, I just didn’t want to waste foamcore to fill it in when all I really needed was a couple of bumpers to keep the dice from flying out.
