Braille dice with numbered inserts
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Braille dice with numbered inserts
I invited my friend (who happens to be visually impaired) to play D&D, only to realise there aren't any dice out there that can be enjoyed by both sighted and visually impaired and blind people! While there are braille dice out there, they're hard to read for sighted people and often kind of boring-looking. Visually impaired people with remaining vision can often still see some colour, sparkle and reflections so I wanted to be able to incorporate such sensations into the dice. I plan to mold the print and cast dice from it for my friend.
About the tactile shapes: The bottom of the braille is indicated by a little bump in the recession of the dice faces. This way it's easy to feel what the correct orientation of the top face is. The percentile D10 has extra bumps on the bottom, to indicate the difference between the two D10s. The D4 of this set is crystal shaped, so that when the die is rolled and read, no pointy bits will harm your digits or make it tough to read. The braille used is the unified international braille. The numbers are represented by using letters from A to T on the tactile dice. Normally, the numbers in braille are indicated by letters A to J but to save space on the d20 and d12 faces, I chose to include more letters.
About the numbered inserts: These shapes should fit exactly within the tactile braille shapes if you were to mold and cast dice from these prints. The font I used on the inserts is Middle Saxony Text. This is a font that's allowed to be used for private use only.
There's both a supported and unsupported version of the dice included, for whatever suits your needs. In the future I will likely also design a little reference board for blind and visually impaired people that are new to reading braille and also to help the sighted people figure out what the result on the rolled tactile die is!
If you are a dice maker and you want to make and/or sell dice made from molds which are in turn made from this file, please give credit where credit is due and tag @nocturnality.rpg on instagram, @nocturnalityd on twitter and @nocturnality on hive. Also consider donating profits from your sales to charities that help blind and visually impaired people and donating one or two sets to your local friendly game store to make playing TTRPG more accessible to visually impaired and blind people.
This is best printed on a resin printer.
Status | Under Review |