The market for tabletop gaming gear has heated up over the last few years, and one of the standout manufacturer’s is New England-based Wyrmwood. If that name rings a bell, it’s because the company has exploded into the marketplace with a new line of extravagant gaming tables that are just the thing to fill the void left by the closure of Geek Chic.
While one of Wyrmwood’s handmade tables starts at $5,000, the firm is mostly known for its broad range of smaller products. You may have heard about its dice towers, which raised nearly nearly $250,000 on Kickstarter in 2015. The company’s latest project, however, may be its finest — and most affordable — product yet.
It’s called The Wyrmwood Adventurer’s Arsenal, and it’s already closing in on the quarter-million mark. So what is it?
At the core of the Arsenal is a dice vault secured by eight neodymium magnets. Inside are three cutouts, each one made to fit a full set of seven polyhedral dice. There’s also a fourth generously proportioned cutout for a miniature, large enough for even 32 mm minis with oversized weapons or exotic poses.
A dice vault isn’t anything new. We’ve written about them before here on Polygon. What makes this one special is the craftsmanship that goes into it. The sample that Wyrmwood provided is perfectly squared, and hand-oiled and waxed. Like all of the company’s products, it’s an absolute pleasure to handle. Also, the interior wells come with two layers of custom-cut foam so that you can adjust them to fit even larger, casino-style or “spindown” dice used for playing Magic: The Gathering.
Protecting the vault is a leather-lined rolling tray. It’s made just big enough that you can lift out the vault with only one finger, rather than tipping the whole thing upside down. Binding it all together is a well-appointed leather strap.
I’ve handled just about every single dice vault produced by all of the major boutique manufacturers, and this one is by far the most well-made. Fully assembled, it’s also among the most secure. I don’t have any concern about this thing popping open inside my backpack.
The capstone, however, is the hand-turned mechanical pencil. It uses thick, 3 mm lead and even includes a built-in sharpener.
The four items are being sold à la carte, or bundled together. The set pictured here, made from black walnut, would run you $257 shipped. But the pencil, which would make an excellent gift for any avid RPG player on your list, is only $70. A more modest set, made from red oak, costs $182 shipped, while the pencil alone is $50.
The Kickstarter campaign, which has already met its $10,000 goal, runs until March 7.
