After reading 11 Homebrew Dungeon Master Screens by the inimitable Johnn Four, I became enamored of the idea of the double dog dish for dice (part of #3). Keep your dice in one side, roll your dice in the other. A lot of my friends use fancy trays manufactured by Chessex and others to corral their die and keep them from flying all over the table, but those things are expensive and often bulky. I found a cheap plastic double cat dish for $1 that looks nice, does the job, and doesn’t take up a lot of room in the backpack. Better still, they stack, so if you need more than one they save space.

Why use one of these? It’s a question I’ve been asked a lot. I game in venues that tend to be crowded, with more people crowded around a table than it should technically accommodate. I also game in places with kids and cats running loose. Dice that aren’t corralled tend to get knocked around and lost. Dice in a dish stay put, and if you need to move, or just more your dice to get to the character sheet or books underneath it’s a lot easier to pick up a dish then scoop up dice or push them around.

As a Savage Worlds fanatic, I’ve also found that the double cat dish is perfect for that game as well. In the photo below you can see how it holds a deck of cards nicely. This keeps them from getting bumped and having the play 52 pickup. you could use it for any type of card game, with one side for the discard pile. For SW purposes, I’d use the other side to hold Bennies (plastic pirate coins in the photo below).

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