![]() They’ve also designed cufflinks for League of Legends shoutcaster Sam Hartman-Kenzler Plus, one of their staffers may or may not have stalked Critical Role’s Matt Mercer to autograph a spellbook this one time at PAX.īut now Elderwood is launching a new product that’s got me super excited: ![]() They’ve made custom boxes for Naomi Novik, author of His Majesty’s Dragon, and Travis and Justin McElroy of the My Brother, My Brother and Me podcast. Their massive success allowed them to add more leathers, woods, and embossments to the collection.Īs the unintentional company grew, Dan, Quentin, and their talented team have been honored to create items for some VIPs in the gaming and fantasy industries. They ended up raising over $281,000, even though their initial goal was only $5000. When images of their hex chests went viral on Reddit and Imgur, the gaming community encouraged them to launch a Kickstarter campaign to mass produce their works. They also shared a passion for crafting and discovered that they could use their engineering skills to craft intricate and very exact wood carvings. Please note, each box takes about four weeks to make, and my birthday is in December.Įlderwood Academy was founded by Quentin Weir and Dan Reiss, a pair of robot enthusiasts who met through gaming. You can order your own custom spellbook box through this link. ![]() Later this month, the hex chests will be available in aluminum. Elderwood has since expanded its offerings with hexagonal dice boxes. The rolling tray version can be further customized with colored felt as well as foam inserts for holding dice, figurines, and coins. You can choose to between a rolling tray style interior for dice or a deck-holding interior for stashing cards. What makes these boxes even more special is that the inside is just as customizable as the outside. Not only does this piece of metal look cool, but it also serves as a dry-erase board for taking notes. I mean look at these beauties:Įach box is made to order using genuine leather, a variety of woods–depending on your preference–and a metal “reflecting pool” on the inside of the lid. I loved them so much that I featured them in Geek & Sundry’s holiday gift guide for tabletop gamers. They had a successful Kickstarter campaign to launch a line of boxes that resembled spell books. ![]() The title dicebox is a reference to the peorth rune, which in divination systems may represent 'dice cup' or 'womb', symbolizing "something revealed that had been hidden, though it can also stand for a gamepiece or a pawn".Last fall, I was introduced to Elderwood Academy, a small indie creator of some jaw-droppingly beautiful gaming gear. Dicebox is also on comic scholar Scott McCloud's top 20 webcomics list, and was used along with Penny Arcade, Fetus-X and Questionable Content as an example of comics using the web to create "an explosion of diverse genres and styles" in McCloud's 2006 book Making Comics. ![]() The Oregonian calls Dicebox the "gravitational center" of Oregon's "vibrant Web-comic scene". Manley Lee's work on Dicebox made her a finalist for the Friends of Lulu's Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent for 2003. The comic, planned for four books totalling 36 chapters, is set in the space-travelling future and is primarily the story of one year in the lives of two women factory workers, Griffen Medea Stoyka and Molly Robbins. Molly and Griffen, protagonists of Dicebox by Jenn Manley Leeĭicebox, by American cartoonist Jenn Manley Lee, is a science fiction webcomic which has been hosted at the subscription-based comics anthology site Girlamatic. ![]()
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