A friend reached out with a request: build a Cthulhu dice tower to match his Cthulhu lighter. Here is how that object became an eldritch tabletop centerpiece.
This is what "custom" actually means at Knightsmiths.
The request that started with a lighter 001
A friend reached out with a request that had nothing to do with a specific board game insert. He wanted a dice tower. Not just any dice tower. A Cthulhu Dice tower. It had to match the Cthulhu-themed Zippo he already carries: the crowned Old One face, the tentacles, the R'lyeh sigils, the whole cosmic-horror aesthetic already attached to that personal object he holds dear. 001
So, a Cthulhu dice tower we built. We took inspiration from his lighter linework, such as the dragon-wing crown, the tentacled visage, the occult geometry running down the sides. Then we translated it into a full-size laser-engraved dice tower and tray in premium plywood, aged to a weathered black finish so it looks like it was pulled out of a sunken temple rather than cut in a Central Florida workshop.
No Cthulhu dice tower is complete without a matching tray. This one picks up the same tentacle motif from the design and carries it into the cutouts, so the whole piece reads as one object instead of a tower with a logo slapped on it.
A seam, not a chute
Because that's really what this is, once you stop calling it a dice tower. Look at it long enough and it stops being a chute with a nice face on it. That carved maw at the top isn't decoration. Somewhere behind it is a dimension that doesn't answer our physics, and your dice slip through it for one full second between your hand and the table, tumbling through some lightless fold of the Old One's domain before the tower spits them back out below, already fated.
The wave-and-tentacle cutouts on the tray aren't just catching what falls, but the shoreline where the portal empties, dice washing up out of R'lyeh already carrying whatever verdict they picked up on the way through. You're not rolling initiative. You're petitioning something enormous and asking it to hand you back a number.
Four eldritch finishes
Once we had the shape of the idea, we couldn't leave it alone. We started running color variants just to see how far the concept could stretch. It turned out to stretch pretty far.
The Dreamlands Green: all sickly jade and dream-fever glow. The Insanely Purple: the color of a mind that's seen one too many geometries it shouldn't have. The R'lyeh Red: blood-and-brass, like something surfacing after ten thousand years underwater. And the Portal Black, the original.
Four takes on the same eldritch piece, each one a different flavor of wrong.
Storage and gear worthy of the game
This is what the Custom Shop is for. If you've got a character, a campaign, a tattoo, a keepsake, then get is touch. We can build the piece that matches it. Dice towers, trays, card boxes, organizer inserts, all cut and engraved to order in premium wood.
Got a design in mind? Any crazy ideas? Reach out through our Custom Shop or Contact page, and let's build it together!