A role-playing group here in Melbourne wanted something better than a cardboard tube to roll their dice down: a proper centrepiece for the table, with somewhere to keep the dice between sessions. The answer became a tower in the spirit of oriental architecture — tiered roofs, latticework and lantern reds — designed and built as a one-off commission.
The two side towers fold out on hinges, each revealing a rack that holds three dice. The rooftop sections open too, uncovering two more hidden caches — so the build stows a complete set of polyhedral RPG dice, every d4 to d20 with a home of its own.
Drop a die in at the top and the interior takes over: a run of internal baffles bounces it unpredictably on the way down, and it exits through one of several release doors into the pool at the base. No two throws take the same path — perfect randomness, guaranteed by architecture rather than luck.
Designed, modelled and refined in a single week — from first sketch to finished digital model — with parts procurement underway as this page goes live. As a commission it came in at A$300 all-inclusive: design, parts sourcing and delivery. If your table deserves its own tower, the commissions bench is open.
