Geeky Crochet #16: Polyhedrals (and bonus! a Beholder)

June 21st, 2008 by Kiba | Posted in Crochet, Geeky Crochet |

If you thought all of my video game posts were geeky, just get a load of today’s post.  Yes, friends, today, we venture into the place where crochet and role playing games – of the Dungeons and Dragons ilk – intersect.

First up are these polyhedrals – many sided dice – designed by Peasie.

These babies actually work.  You can roll them.  Peasie provides patterns for the d4 and d6 here and the d8 and d20 here.  You can also, if you are, say, an irritated DM, throw them at distracted players without the risk of hurting them too much.  Unlike brushed steel dice, for example, which will dent your dining table if you roll them without something to absorb the shock.

Back in the Imbolc 2008 issue of The AntiCraft, Leah B. published her Shoulder Beholder pattern.  The Beholder is, for the uninitiated, one of the fiercest monsters you can face playing Dungeons & Dragons.  Kathy over at spinster in training made one for her husband Greg for Valentine’s Day.  I saw it in person, and it is a thing of beauty.  She made some slight modifications to the pattern; I forget why.  Maybe to make it look more like the actual Beholder in the Monsters Manual?  Anyway – if you have a D&D nerd friend, make her this Beholder.  She will love it.

That’s Kathy’s beholder, there.  Or Greg’s, rather.  That Kathy made.