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Russell Howell (Left for BGG)

(badgeguy)

United States
Canoga Park
California

Sponsored by Zik Zak

This is a photo of the Dice Tower I designed out of a single piece of card stock. As with any good game or game accessory, I have also created an expansion for the Dice Tower, the pictured single page Dice Catcher.

The plans for the tower (ver. 1.0) are awaiting approval. I have slightly modified it since submitting and will upload the revision as well as the expansion once the original is approved.

No tape was used or is necessary for this project.

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Edit (7/30/2008):

Version 1.0 of the tower is now available: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/34099 and I have submitted the revised version of both the tower and the expansion (The Single Page Dice Catcher).

Enjoy!

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Edit 2 (7/30/2008 and 30 seconds!):

Wow! Do the admins have nothing to do today?!?!?

Version 1.1 of both the tower AND the expansion are up!!!

Single Page Dice Tower: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/34099
Dice Catcher Expansion: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/34176

I would love to hear your opinions and suggestions.

-Rusty

Edited Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:46 pm
Posted Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:37 am
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Steven Heinrich

(heinrichsteven)

United States
Arlington
Texas

Bow chicka bowow! Avatar lust...

awesome awesome awesome

I can't wait to try this out....so cool!

Please post when the file is approved!

Posted Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:58 am
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Andrew Tullsen

(Howitzer_120mm)

United States
Tigard
Oregon

Game Parts, Custom prototypes, Print & Play Games

I think the admins go through the files in batchs.

Posted Sun Aug 3, 2008 5:22 pm
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Paul Newsham

(Newsh)

England
Hampshire

Good job! I might just have my (childrens) game group having a go at making those in the new term. They love using dice towers for Pirates Cove, Heroscape, Yspahan, and even Settlers of Catan.

I look forward to seeing the file posted.

Posted Sun Aug 3, 2008 9:52 pm
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Jeremiah Lee

(Jeremiah_Lee)

United States
Ypsilanti
Michigan

I just keep rolling!

I'm not playing a game, I'm just rolling. It's so much fun.

Posted Mon Aug 4, 2008 2:45 am
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Michael Hasenstab

(jwhyne)

United States
Westminster
Colorado

Awesome job! I just finished making one of these and it is totally sweet.

Posted Mon Aug 4, 2008 5:29 am
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Herman Restrepo

(hdrestr)

United States
Milwaukee
Wisconsin

This is also my first dice tower, and I love it! I couldn't wait for heavy stock so I built mine from stiff resume paper, works like a charm. Thanks for the post and especially for the picture which drew my attention in the first place.

Posted Tue Aug 5, 2008 4:48 am
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Russell Howell (Left for BGG)

(badgeguy)

United States
Canoga Park
California

Sponsored by Zik Zak

I was not specific for just that purpose. If people didn't want the title showing, they could build it so it wouldn't. They can also fold the dice catcher in reverse so the description shows on the outside or the inside.

That having been said, I am looking into having these printed, pre-cut and pre-scored on heavy card stock so that it would be possible to just break them apart, fold and assemble on the fly. Then you could just bring a dice tower with you on a trip by thowing the two pieces in their flat paper shaped state in a game box and away you would go. They would also be recyclable, and I would try to make them so that they are really reasonable (If I can get away with it, 5 towers in a pack with expansions for $10). This is all predicated on the price that the printer gives back for making them in the fashion that I want. If they say that it's going to be $3 per page and that I need to run 1,000 of them for each page, of course I will not be tossing $6,000 out to make them, but we will have to see. If it is reasonable, I would also try to pre-print stone and brick patterns on the pages so they look like stone dice towers.

I would also make one more change and half cut the tabs for the second shelf in the tower so that they may be folded like the first shelf to stablize the second shelf and the whole tower more.

But all of this is predicated on the price. As I learn more, I will let you all know. I will still want to keep the plans up for free, though, for those that want to build their own from start to finish and don't mind all doing the intricate cutting.

Rusty

p.s. Thank you to all who have given me thumbs up and donated to my avatar cause! I am blown away by the response to this little project.

Posted Tue Aug 5, 2008 7:26 am
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Alain Baum

(DukeOfEarl)

Luxembourg
Grevenmacher

This looks very good, however, my Foxit Reader always crashes when I'm trying to scroll to the third page in both PDF documents.

I use Foxit instead of Acrobat Reader, since it is much more lightweight, and doesn't hog your memory with a "speed launcher". I assume the Acrobat Reader works, since I'm the first person to notice the error.

thumbsup

anyway

Posted Tue Aug 5, 2008 9:29 am
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Kasey Relford

(tranzducer)

United States

Are those Kismet dice?

Posted Wed Aug 6, 2008 2:52 am
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Russell Howell (Left for BGG)

(badgeguy)

United States
Canoga Park
California

Sponsored by Zik Zak

Why yes they are. That's a good eye you have there.

Posted Wed Aug 6, 2008 3:42 am
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WolfLord Hawkeye

(WolfLord_Hawkeye)

Iowa

Well I just made one also.This works great thanks for the plans. I was thinking about making a wood one but this was much easier and hey I like to use Exacto knives.

Posted Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:15 am
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