Mostly for drawing straight lines to create the cutting guide. This isn’t necessary, but I think it helped me speed up the process and cut the same shape(ish) on every page. Bring some extra replacement blades since you want to make clean cuts and ensure the pages don’t rip. I used a box cutter type of knife, but you could use an x-acto or any other similar blade. The closer it looks to a wizard’s spellbook the better. You might already have one laying around, or they can be found at random thrift and antique stores. Required Ingredients + Tools For Part 1: Cut Next, you create a mixture of glue and water and seal the edges of the book closed and let it sit overnight with some heavy pressure applied. This part can take quite a while, so be sure to take your time in order to get nice clean lines. It can be split up into two parts: cutting the pages out, and gluing the pages together.Įssentially you take a book and repeatedly cut out the middle of the pages with a utility knife to form a cavity. The entire process is honestly way simpler than I originally thought. The completed DnD dice box Making a DnD Dice Box: Summary It may not be the most refined method, but it will definitely get the job done. Keeping dice hidden away inside an ancient looking tome seemed like a pretty good solution, so I did some research and tried my darndest to create a DnD dice box from an old book. OR, and stick with me here, you could DIY that shit AND have fun at the same. Sure, you could throw some ca$h around and get a hoity-toity wooden DnD dice box. But eventually you’ll need somewhere equally awesome to store your dice. Like, finding a crisp hundred-dollar bill randomly in your coat awesome. What I’m saying is that there should have been at least three more pages of Dicebox by now.Having a lot of dice is awesome. *January was a crazy work and life wise then February was recovery and then snow and sickness delays. And I really can’t see why that regular schedule shouldn’t continue until the end of Dicebox Book 2 : Chase. The good out of all this is there will be several weeks regular, uninterrupted pages updates at starting this Tuesday. Beyond my new MailChimp newsletter, I set up a Ko-fi account for those who wanted to donate but were done with Patreon. Beyond being too agitated to truly focus on work, there was time spent researching alternatives and setting up a fully functional mailing list. In fact, it was t hat whole Patreon fee charging policy change kerfuffle back in December of 2017 that first knocked me off course Dicebox wise. In no way was this a ploy to get people to subscribe to my Patreon. We all now know how well that worked out. I kept thinking I should make a note here and explain, but then I kept deluding myself that I’d get those last three pieces of art designed over the next few days and explain when I posted this two page spread. I had gotten a few inquiries recently about the lack of Dicebox pages at and some noted the locked Patreon posts. I didn’t think it’d take SEVEN pages and yet here we are.* I knew there would take at least two more pages in locked Patreon posts before I felt ready to share pages 6 and 7. As my patrons at Patreon have often seen pages in progress and I really wanted to move on with the story, created a locked post at Patreon and began the next pages.
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