Four-Way Dice Tower by Ttkttkt

Last crawled date: 3 years, 3 months ago

I needed a dice tower that had openings on all four sides to use as a component in a game design that I was working on. So, I took ClericAaron's excellent design for a more traditional dice tower and hacked it into a form that I could use.
The dice tower is designed to work with 12mm six-sided dice. In particular, I needed to be able to dump a Chessex 12mm d6 dice block (36 dice) into the top of the tower and have all of the dice fall through without getting stuck. You can put some traditional polyhedral dice through the tower but standard size Chessex twelve and twenty-sided dice are too big and will get stuck. I recommend placing the tower in the middle of some kind of ring to prevent the dice from getting launched off of whatever surface you're rolling them on. I use a hula hoop wrapped in silicone tape to make it a bit less prone to sliding around on the table.
There are two versions of the four-way dice tower. One has a tree-like structure in the middle to bounce the dice around before they fall to the bottom of the tower. The other has a set of fins protruding from the walls that serve a similar function. The tree-like design came first and it works fine, if/when it prints correctly. For some reason I was getting some pretty weird layer shifts when I tried to print it. In an attempt to diagnose the cause of the printing failures, I redesigned the innards to see if the mildly complex tree-like structure was giving my slicer trouble. That led me to the fins design. The fins design does seem to print better and it is the version that I recommend that you use. If, however, you feel like testing the tree-like version to see if you can get it to print correctly I'd love to hear about your experience.