Forum: Public Forum

on Wed 07 of May, 2014 11:56 BST, by Bruce_C posts: 180 United Kingdom

Hi All,

As part of the continued effort to update the content of the site and hopefully encourage more activity I'm looking for articles we can publish on the front page.

Are you running a game you'd like to tell us about? Whether the game is full or just starting up you could write a little about the setting, ruleset and any material you are using to run it. You wouldn't need to write a detailed play report but an outline of the game to show that we ARE an active group would be great.

Alternatively how about reviewing a product you're using to run a game? An adventure module, setting or even a summary of the ruleset might be of interest to others. Really this should be for a product you have actually used in a game rather than just read through and it would only be 'right' to make clear any involvement you have had in the product (I know we have some writers here)

Cheers,

Bruce

on Thu 08 of May, 2014 22:14 BST, by Len posts: 1095 United Kingdom

Let me kick this off.
I use one of these Facebook page for Unique Dice Towers www.uniquedicetowers.comDice Towers. The one I have is one that was made just prior to the Kickstarter Campaign, which was over funded, as most good ones are.

I have known the bloke who does these for years. He was one of the people who used to run an RPG Meetup and at one time helped run the worldwide organiser's group with me. He built his first laser himself, but the Kickstarter funding bought him a brand spanking new top range laser system. The one I have is actually part of the design process.

It works flawlessly. It breaks down into a box that holds your dice between games and reassembles from just two parts into a great little dice rolling tower. Pop your dice in the top and the mechanism rolls it and empties it out into a little tray for you to read the number.

John, who makes them, is a DM and player, just like any of you. His criteria was that it should never detract from play. It had to be of a height that did not obscure the view of DM/GM or the players. It had to make some noise, but not so much as to be a distraction to the game.

When it came time to arrange a Christmas present for 'Papa Zombie', I turned to John, who was just starting to consider allowing customers to provide artwork for him to use to make their dice tower. I provided the artwork, and in no time at all, I had Alan's present delivered. The 'side windows' were shaped like shotguns, and John thought the little cut out shotgun shapes were cool, so he included them in the delivery for free.

We also worked together a little on John's Cuthulhu themed tower, though in the end, he used the original artist's work to avoid possible copyright infringements. The Chaosium and Fantasy Flight people are well known for letting lawyers loose on anything they consider too close to 'theirs'.

I love my little Dice Tower. When you 'want more dice' but can't justify it, why not get one of these instead. You can buy it in several ply wood finishes, or several nice hardwoods. You can get it in pieces, to glue together into it's two parts yourself, or get it ready assembled. You can design your own cutouts, or choose from a bunch of ready made designs.

I'd buy one. In fact I did. More than once.