Dice

RPG and strategy fans looking for a fun addition to their table games should check out this clever 3D-printed dice roller. Just drop your dice into the top of this castle and they’ll roll out randomly onto the folding trays on the sides. Buy it on Etsy, or print your own on Thingiverse.

Eyepetizer’s distinctive metal dice are made of grade 5 titanium, and feature precision-machined pips which ensure accurate and fair rolls every time. Each one is CNC milled, with no casting or welding. Also available with a traditional pip layout.

Upgrade your D&D game with Rainbow Shop CN’s beautiful shimmery electroplated metal dice. Made from zinc alloy, they have a nice heft to them, and you’ll get a full set including D20, D12, D10, D10(percentile), D8, D6, and D4 for all your gaming needs.

Pacific Puzzle Works presents an incredibly cool and unusual take on the classic 20-sided role-playing die. This 2″ diameter icosahedron-in-a-icosahedron is milled from a solid hunk of 6061-T6 aluminum using a Matsuura MX-330 5-axis milling machine.

Adafruit shows us how to make an electronic and portable dice roller. It uses a small motor to spin a small platform, which in turn rolls the dice. As others have pointed out, it would be better if you make the platform uneven to shake the dice even more. Full guide here.

An elegant upgrade to any D6 dice game, these machined dice have curved corners, and can be laser-etched with classic pips, tally lines, symbols, or hash marks. Combine multiple symbols or metals to expand gameplay options. Available in stainless or brass.

Truly unique six-sided dice which have an open void in their centers. They’re precision machined from anodized aluminum, and weigh just 1.5 grams each. Their unique pip design and balanced weight distribution ensures statistically fair rolls too.

The workshop of Artisan Dice creates incredible limited-run dice in wood, metal, bone, stone, steel, acrylic, Teflon, carbon fiber and more. They even make dice from old whiskey barrels. Check out their YouTube channel to learn more about how they’re made.

Perhaps the coolest looking dice ever made, these aluminum cubes have built in LED lighting behind the pips. A motion sensor activates the lights only when you pick them up to roll. Their maker can’t guarantee perfect balance, but they’re still awesome. (Thanks Joseph!)

These precision-machined dice are cut from solid hunks of brass. The metal gives them great weight and substance, and will make your Monopoly set look just that much more classy. Brass wheelbarrow, shoe and top hat not included.

Monopoly is just so much cooler played with dice made out of solid chunks of aluminum. By precisely varying the depths of the pips, each side weighs exactly the same, resulting in fair, perfectly balanced throws every time.

Etsy seller Amber Rix makes machine-cut acrylic dice with bold camo patterns, with each die having a unique pattern. If you participate in Massdrop’s promo you can get the dice at a discount. Amber also makes metal dice.

Invented by CritSuccess, Dice Rings emulate traditional dice via a free spinning outer ring with randomly arranged numbers. Other designs include pips, yes/no and playing card suits/ranks.

Bender asks you to grab his shiny metal head and shake it to see if you can score a Yahtzee! (or at least a Chance.) Each die has pics of your favorite Futurama characters instead of boring old dots.

German artist Tony Cragg has created these amazing flowing organic sculptures, using thousands of individual plastic dice as his primary medium. Just don’t try to roll them – it won’t work.

Korean artist Kim Hyun creates intricate humanoid forms using various dice. Each die is drilled, carefully placed on wires sculpted around plaster casts, which are later removed.

History buffs might appreciate playing craps with St. Liberty’s handmade oak dice set, designed to look like something the Continental Army might have used during the American Revolution.

David Alvarez used over 14,000 individual dice, carefully arranged to form a halftone-like effect to produce these massive 8-foot by 5-foot portraits of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. Snake Eyes!

Hanging a device that can create inter-spatial gateways over your desk may not be smart, but these 4″ Companion Cube Fuzzy Dice ensure you’ll always get the drop on GLaDOS.

You won’t be rolling the dice with Zontik’s Backgammon Precision Dice; high-end and indestructible, they sport rounded corners and are painted by hand with a hypodermic needle.

Score some critical hits while rolling for initiative with this giant Inflatable d20 Die; at 17″ in diameter, anyone on the opposite side of the table may want to do a Jump check.