The holder is a solid piece of wood with a bunch of holes drilled through it. 4 x Wood screws the same width as the magnets.You could recreate this with weights pressed against the wood or with strong rubber bands. I used 1 large clamp to hold wood together as glue dried. One really narrow (guide holes), one the width of your magnets, one 1″ spade bit This was only to make the notches that connect the dice tray and the dice holder. Used to make the main dice holes and to create holes for the corner magnets and screws. You could probably do this with a hand saw but it’d be a bit slower. One piece that’s long and about 1/4″ tall and one that’s about 1″ tall. In the drawings below, I am using the actual height, but it’s the 1″ board. Originally, I thought I was going to need a double layer of wood but in fact this was the perfect height for the dice sets I have. It’s actually smaller than that, about 3/4″ high. That much wood is enough to do this project twice, and still some to spare.Ī note on wood, if you’re new to it. I believe they were 3 feet long but get as short as you can. To make the box in the photo at the top of this page, I bought 1 piece of 1/4″ x 5″ oak and one piece of 1″ x 5″ oak. I went with some hardwood to make sure it was a bit more durable. I have a decent set of tools as well, but nothing that a typical house owner wouldn’t have. But the boxes aren’t terribly complicated and they are a nice keepsake. I think the impact Critical Role has had on D&D accessories can’t be understated. There are plenty of really nice dice boxes you can purchase. I decided I would turn my hand to making a dice box as a present. But I’ve been fascinated with the paraphernalia they use: dice bags, rolling boxes, etc. Delayed both in that I started following Campaign 2 and that I never watch it live (past my bedtime). Contact me with the details and we can work out the particulars such as scope, schedule and pay.I am a delayed follower of Critical Role, a live Dungeons and Dragons production.

Yes, I’m available for illustrations, design and short comic work. Hell, I won’t even draw my husband’s stories. But I have a great day job already and prefer to save all my comicking energy for my own stuff. Mind you, I’ve liked the ideas people have pitched at me in the past and hope to see some of them actually make print. I have a this really great idea for a comic, do you want to draw it?

How do you create a page of Dicebox?ĭigitally, in Affinity Photo. I’ve done a page in as little as 6 hours and have taken as long as 30 hours. On average it takes me about 10 to 14 hours to do a page, from thumbnails to finishes. How long does it take for you to do a page of Dicebox? When it does update, I make note of it on the Home Page, my Instagram and Twitter accounts and, of course, on my Patreon page.

My characters are fairly mainstream in that respect for their time and place. Most likely! But I doubt it’ll come up in a big way in the story. Aren’t there any other gendered pronouns being used in the Dicebox universe? But it did inspire peh, which is, in essence, short for person. A friend had come up with “penn” as a gender neutral pronoun which didn’t quite work for me for that reason. I also wanted the pronoun to have the same effect as he or her, a near aspirant sound that flows instead of stops. Using “they” is pretty good in writing or in the abstract, but can be needlessly confusing in conversation when talking about specific individuals. I wanted something that couldn’t be confused with he, she or it either in speech or text. And I wasn’t satisfied with any existing ones. Well, I clearly think it necessary to have such a pronoun. Has Molly always been missing the ring finger of her right hand?

Her gender is a little more elusive (as is anyone’s). That said, the occasional appearance of dice in this story signifies nothing. I’m fascinated by the way one recognizes the fifth side of a die in less than an instant without counting the dots-it’s an alternate symbol “5.” And how they are called “bones” in reference to the material they used to be made from. (Not so much that they are used for gambling as well as fortune telling-though I got the humor of that before leaving grade school.) This in turn resonates with a long fascination of mine for dice and playing cards and their everyday commonness combined with rich symbolic meaning. The title Dicebox was inspired by the Nordic rune Peorth, which is the “dice cup” or the “womb.” Its significance in a casting is of something revealed that had been hidden, though it can also stand for a gamepiece or a pawn.

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