Dice Towers, Anyone?

I predict after I return from an upcoming business trip, I'm going to be in the mood to make additional dice towers. I've now completed towers for Rob, Jon, and Simon, and if other members of SABG are interested, I can make some more. My design for the towers has evolved over the past few months, through a series of pretty ugly failures, though thankfully no serious wounds. I'm now feeling confident enough in the reproducibility of the current design that I can make a fair number of these without a ridiculous amount of effort. I really do enjoy working with wood, though I'm truly not very good at it. Perhaps with this practice, the towers will be even better as production continues. The main point of this is that the folks within SABG have been great pals over the past year, and I'd like to give something back to the club.

First, Kendahl and Patrick. You guys are in the hall of fame for welcoming me into the group, so if you want a dice tower, just let me know. I'll mail it to you.

Oh, also... unless you really, really don't think you're capable of doing it, I'm going to ask that dice tower recipients apply the stain/polyurethane to the wood themselves. This final step is messy, chemical intensive, and (at least to me) the least fun of the process, plus I'm sure everyone would like to have total control over what color you paint your tower. The job will cost you around $5 for the stain and take approximately 2-3 coats over a day or so.

So, the $10-$15 for materials plus the time to do the cutting, sanding, and assembly will be my gift to you, dear reader. However, to make this perhaps a bit more fun and interesting, to qualify for a tower you'll need to accomplish a suitably magnificent feat of skill and/or craftiness. Please remember this is all meant to be in fun, and I'm sure everyone who wants a tower will get one eventually. So if any of this seems silly or ridiculous, you're probably correct. I've been brainstorming a few qualifying challenges, and the initial list is:

• Win a game of Twilight Imperium 3 in which I participate
• Defeat me in a card driven wargame
• Serve as the "DM" in a game of Descent where I can play as one of the characters
• Organize and run a board game tournament of some kind within SABG
• Defeat me in a game of War of the Ring (with Expansion); your choice of sides
• Without any use of Google (honor system, please; watching the show is perfectly fine) tell me what the name of the recurring German corporal was in Hogan's Heroes (hint: not Schultz... the other guy)
• Recruit a bona fide new member to SABG, previously unknown to us
• Sing me the Notre Dame fight song at an SABG game session at DL
• Be the first to beat me at Tide of Iron when its released

Okay, that's probably enough to get a few dice towers out there for those that want them... Oh, one tower per customer, please.