Oregon maker combines ancient and modern manufacturing techniques to create upscale dice.
The Chaos Apparatus dice were created around the principle that roleplaying dice should do more than just generate character stats and resolve combat. By looking and feeling like artifacts from your game’s setting, they have the ability to heighten your immersion in the story. These designs are classic steampunk, taking inspiration from real Victorian steam engines, clocks, architecture, and jewelry. 3D printed in a bronze and stainless steel composite, they’re beautiful, precise, durable, and fair with an intricate hollow structure that would be impossible to manufacture any other way. For the premium versions, the millennia-old technique of gilding is employed to impart a lustrous two-tone finish that greatly improves legibility and appeal.
Creator Jed Laurance has launched a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of raising funds for a production run of the Chaos Apparatus dice. If the $5000.00 funding goal is met, rewards will include single dice or full polyhedral sets in bronze or matte black finishes with the option to add copper or 16 karat gold highlights to the numbers. More finishes and gilding options will be unlocked if stretch goals are reached. In addition, every backer will receive a digital download of an exclusive roleplaying campaign penned by Jordan Wallis, author of Alistair Coronet and the Woven Cage.
Since he created his first D20 6 years ago as a Christmas gift for his nephew, Jed has been refining the designs with the intent of creating the finest possible steampunk roleplaying dice. A successfully funded Kickstarter would make those dice available to backers at the best possible price, as well as laying the groundwork for future development of the Chaos Apparatus line. Please consider backing, and welcome to the Diamond Age.
For more information about the Chaos Apparatus, or to schedule an interview with Jed, please email chaosapparatus@gmail.com. If you’re in the Los Angeles area and want to get a look at a the dice, drop by Geeky Teas at 707 S Main St., Burbank, CA 91506 and ask about their demo set.
Phone number: 541-325-2999
