Dice Tray

[Fitz]

An issue that arises from time to time is that of keeping dice from scattering all over the place, knocking around playing pieces and disappearing off the table and rolling away under bits of furniture, never to be seen again.

To ameliorate the problem, I knocked together this little dice tray. It's about 180x200mm with an oak frame and a cork inner, flat enough to make dice like the d24 readable and soft enough not to knock the corners off them. It's compact enough to not take up too much table space, but large enough to allow reasonable freedom in rolling the dice, and the frame is deep enough to keep them in (as long as you don't get too enthusiastic with your throwing) while being low enough to see them clearly from any angle. The feet aren't really necessary, but they're decorative and I had them hanging around, so why not make use of them?

[syrinx0]

Very well made.  Great idea.

[Barry S]

Nice!

[Caladan]

That's actually nice idea!.
I might copy that in some form

[Hammers]

I have a fondness for scenery dice trays, like dice towers and such. There are a few around, I am thinking about building one myself.

[Hammers]

Like this:

[Plynkes]

Being a lazy cove, I have a green baize casino-style one (it came with poker dice and cards). Yours is much nicer-looking, though, Fitz.

Hammers, the one time I went to Tactica there was a nice fellow who ran an underground dungeon crawl-type game, he used one of those "disguised-as-a-castle" ones. I may be lying, but I have a feeling he made it himself. Nice fellow, whose name escapes me. We had met him at GLAM previously. I'm sure Björn or one of the other Hamburg/Kiel mob would be able to enlighten me as to who he was.

The really cool thing about that table though was not the dice tray. It was that it was a fully-envisioned fantasy countryside, and you lifted portions of it away to reveal the dungeon lying within. It was superb.

[Hammers]

Being a lazy cove, I have a green baize casino-style one (it came with poker dice and cards). Yours is much nicer-looking, though, Fitz.

Hammers, the one time I went to Tactica there was a nice fellow who ran an underground dungeon crawl-type game, he used one of those "disguised-as-a-castle" ones. I may be lying, but I have a feeling he made it himself. Nice fellow, whose name escapes me. We had met him at GLAM previously. I'm sure Björn or one of the other Hamburg/Kiel mob would be able to enlighten me as to who he was.

The really cool thing about that table though was not the dice tray. It was that it was a fully-envisioned fantasy countryside, and you lifted portions of it away to reveal the dungeon lying within. It was superb.

I may have heard of the fellow. Was it really a piece of countryside? Wasn't it a town?

[Plynkes]

It was both. A small town and the surrounding countryside.

[Eric the Shed]

great idea...I knocked up some of my own a few years back using speaker housings..

build details here

https://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/shed-wars-goes-all-blue-peterreally.html