Dario is on Kickstarter with a project to bring Dice Keepers to life. The Italian has designed 3D-printable dice stands and keeper miniatures.
As with many STL/design file crowdfunding campaigns, the target is hundreds, not thousands, but Dario may get there anyway. You can see progress on the pitch page.
There are retail rights and the (expensive) option to get 3d-printed dice from the Kickstarter.
The standard set has 14 pieces; 7 dice keepers themselves and 2 stands. These will be STL files and pre-supported
The stretch goals make a difference to the campaign. A dice tower and even a dice thrower have been unlocked. The latter is an actual catapult for your dice, and I think that would be quite dramatic, but the assumption is you still need a 3d-printer to make it.
Alternative classes, seven new Dice Keepers and Beholder Dice Keepers, are yet to unlock. The last of which, the Beholders, require some €2,000 to be pledged.
Dice Keepers are the guardians of your Dice, they protect and instill positivity in them.
A pledge of €2 gets you into a lottery to win an STL set. I didn’t know that was allowed by Kickstarter.
At €5, you get to pick one Dice Keeper design, and at €25, you get the set. However, there are early bird tiers which might last until the end of the week.
Merchant rights are selling more quickly than any other, and no doubt from Etsy stores who want to sell the designs and perhaps 3d-printed dice. These start at €50, but there are early bird options here too.
One dice will be made for you at €150, which also comes with the merchant license. That’s a little odd because surely anyone with enough 3d-printing skill to do it professionally won’t need a Dice Keeper printed for them.
Dario estimates that the STL files will be sent over before the end of the year.
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