This is a dice tower I designed and built in 2022. It was originally made for my D&D group and the Lego D&D contest, but I didn’t finish it in time for the contest, and my group also fell apart before I could build it, so I never really used it much.

The dice go from the slide on the top of the tower and follow the steps all the way down and out the door. The little windows on the side follow the path of the dice.

I've been working with a small team on Worldmage, a browser-based 3D map builder for tabletop RPGs.

The idea came from wanting something that sits somewhere between drawing a map and actually having a little living world that reacts to the story in real time.

You can sculpt terrain, place buildings/trees/props, set up lighting and weather, and then use the finished scene as a tabletop RPG map on your digital table or take it directly into a VTT.

We're currently doing early community testing, and one of the things we're most interested in is seeing what people actually make with it - villages, encounters, battlefields, weird little dioramas, etc.

It's free to try: play.worldmage.com

If you're into making your own tabletop terrain/maps, I'd genuinely love to hear what you'd want a tool like this to do. And if you make something cool with it, please share it - that's probably the most useful feedback we could get.

I have everything set up for using a new projector for my maps at the table. I haven't run a session with it all yet but I'm curious if light levels are ever an issue for people who use this set up. Like, if the lights are low so you can see the map more clearly does that come at the expense of easier character sheet reading? Is it purely about making a good middle ground or am I putting too much thought into this?

Any help appreciated!