[(Digital)MOC] D&D Dice Tower and DM screen

[Agent Kallus]

This was originally made for idea D&D contest, but after talking about the gelatinous cubes I made for this in D&D thread I realised I never posted it here. Sadly enough I think it never even made it to voting stage as though I uploaded it before the deadline (only just), I think it had to be verified or whatever before the deadline too. These pictures are relatively low res as I had originally rendered it at too high a quality for ideas and I might have over-compensated when rerendering.

The idea was to have a functional DM screen (a screen used to hide the game master's plans and dice rolls form the players) with integrated dice tower (a way of rolling dice, you drop them into the top of the tower and they are knocked on bumps on the way down that helps give a random roll), that also function a minifig scale D&D display. Also included are a dice tray (styled as a magma pit) for the players to roll their dice into, 6 player minis (though I've never actually used minis when playing D&D), 9 monster minis, 2 brick built D6s and a large selection of additional parts and accessories to customise the minis.

The main build of the DM screen has a cave dungeon a base with the ground above and a tower with some minor fortifications built atop of that. The left side of the tower functions as the aforementioned dice tower, whilst the right side has storage space inside for the surplus accessories not currently in use by the minis. The owner of the tower is a pale Tiefling nobleman inspired by a particularly memorable session of D&D that I played. I've decorated the ground around the tower with plants, and a washing line.

Here's a back view of the build. The curved sections of the roof can be opened to put the dice in, and the will come out in the tan courtyard area on the ground level. There is a goat, that is a given in any ideas project I submit where one could possibly fit, and actually I've included 2 here, the other one is round the front nibbling on the washing line. The amount of spare parts for character customisation is definitely far more generous than Lego would actually ever be.

Here are the Minis! (Well actually I forgot one, I was rendering this in quite a rush at the time, but its a goblin (you can call him Boblin) and can be seen in the other images). First up the player minis, the default selection is a tiefling rogue, a human bard, a half-elf ranger, a water genasi sorcerer, a half-orc wizard and a dwarf paladin. the monster minis are a skeleton warrior, a Storm Dragon (It's called dungeons and dragons so I had to include both a dungeon and a dragon.), 2 gelatinous cubes, 3 Kobolds, a Beholder and the aforementioned goblin.

Of course the build can be enclosed, the small area with the crates is attached with axels allowing it be moved for a fully shut shape but there are also a few other places it can attach. here you can also see a better look at the dice tray with a golden statue that may well be the treasure our party of adventurers is seeking. talking about the adventurers here you can see that I have remixed them using the surplus parts and accessories that I've included.

And here is a look at it enclosed from the front, where I think it makes for a decent display set, as well as being functional when opened up.

Finally we have look at how everything included looks head on. 

[zoth33]

Everything looks so good.  the figs, the hinged tower and the dice.  I really like the dragon design looks slick.  The parts usage from Nexo knights and Chima is a great idea.  This is just fantastic job well done.   

[Feuer Zug]

Great design and functional too. I like the figures and the creatures. Does it have the ability to slot in charts/sheets for quick reference? I know I use both the quick reference charts on the back of the official DM screen, along with clipping extra charts, character sheets, or info as well when running games.

[Agent Kallus]

15 hours ago, Feuer Zug said:

Great design and functional too. I like the figures and the creatures. Does it have the ability to slot in charts/sheets for quick reference? I know I use both the quick reference charts on the back of the official DM screen, along with clipping extra charts, character sheets, or info as well when running games.

Thanks, and to answer your question... Not really, it was something I originally wanted to do, the idea was that you could use the little semicircular outcrop with the axel connection to hold paper between it and the main thing.

I decided that you would need at least another one higher up in order to hold A4 sized paper securely and the screen would need to be tall enough to completely cover the paper pressed flat against it, and without completing reworking it that would have made it massive, which wasn't something I wanted to do as the original intent was for this to be an ideas set for the contest so I didn't want it to be too large. I did also have the idea of lining up some axles correctly spaced for standard hole punched paper or plastic wallets. So the answer is not really though you could probably hold smaller paper between the outcrop and the main thing, like A5 at most unless the paper was more cardlike and rigid. It would definitely hold one of those cards with monster's stats on that some people use, as they are both small and rigid.

To be honest the last game I DMed was mostly over video chat so I didn't really use a DM screen, but as long as no-one was sat too close to the DM they could just hide Thier notes and sheets behind the screen.

On 2/22/2024 at 7:18 PM, zoth33 said:

 The parts usage from Nexo knights and Chima is a great idea.  

Thanks, I always think it's a shame that they introduce so many parts like this with so much potential and the discontinue them in a year after only making them in one colour.

On 2/22/2024 at 7:18 PM, zoth33 said:

Everything looks so good.  the figs, the hinged tower and the dice.  I really like the dragon design looks slick. This is just fantastic job well done.   

This means a lot, thank you.