Dice Bags: Typical Bags and 3D Figures Made into Bags

The Typical Dice Bag

Dice bags! Boy can dice bags be fun. They're infinitely customizable! All you require to declare something a dice bag is a pouch area and some way to close it. 

 

This particular dice bag features a basilisk as defined by Pathfinder (as opposed to Harry Potter's basilisk which was really just a giant snake, just sayin'). Note that it has eight legs. Don't like basilisks? Man, this pouch could have any motif on it! It could be a snake or a heart or a troll or a trollface or your initials, it so doesn't matter! Any color, any texture, buttons, zippers, hidden compartments, dots instead of stripes, checkers of color, crazy stitches, crazy patterns--dice bags are one of the easiest items to completely personalize! They also make excellent gifts, as this bag was.

Special Feature: Did you notice how the basilisk's tail becomes the drawstring for the bag?! You have no idea how excited I was when I thought that up.
Amy's Hindsights: I made a mistake or two while making this bag, but they aren't obvious, so I'll never point them out! Today I'm even better with color motifing (wow, spell-check, that's really a word?) and so I know I can make items like this even better-looking than this bag already is!

Figures Made into Dice Bags

 This dashing young fellow is Harold the Otyugh. 

Not sure what an Otyugh is? Don't worry, neither was I until I started playing tabletop role-playing games. An Otyugh is a creature which forms mutually beneficial relationships with societies, happily eating all of their waste for as long as they provide it. Note how Harold is dutifully guarding these old pizza boxes. Well with their gigantic mouth-to-body ratio, an Otyugh seemed like the perfect candidate for a dice bag! That is, until I accidentally made him over a foot tall. Not so easy to carry to your weekly game session. Originally he was meant to be about six or eight inches tall, and that's the size I would make any other specialty dice bags. Unless, of course, you want a different size. I was having so much fun making him that until I put all the pieces together I didn't realize the horrible error in gauge I had made.

The moral of the story is to always check your gauge. Or not to enjoy your projects too much. Wait, that doesn't sound right...

Anyway, in considering a dice bag like the one listed above, consider also a dice bag in the form of your favorite creature! Be it the dreaded Terrasque or the cutest kitten.
Special Feature: Poseable arms with kung-fu action*!

*Figurines do not and probably never will feature kung-fu action. Poseable arms and legs are always an option, however.

Amy's Hindsight: Don't tell anyone, but because of the gauge failure, I totally ran out of one of his colors partway through. Luckily for everyone, the color combo that came from that made Harold look even cooler.

Idea Corner! Wouldn't something like Harold the Otyugh make a great backpack? If anything, he'd be a great stuffed toy, nothing says he has to have a zipper for a mouth.