Potion-Vial Dice — Rolling d10 / d100 + Apothecary Display Stand (OpenSCAD)

Rolling-log d10 dice shaped like an alchemist's potion vial — a

faceted glass body, a tapered neck and a cork. You roll it like a log;

the rounded bottom and tapered top can never rest stably, so it always

settles on a flat body face — read the face on top. A units vial

(1–10) plus a tens vial (00–90) together roll a percentile d100.

Ships with a 6-bay arched apothecary cabinet to stand the set on a

shelf, engraved with the four classical elements + aether under a

philosopher's-stone crown.

⚠ The stand is decorative — vials sit loosely

The apothecary stand is a display piece, not a carry case. The vials

rest loosely in open-top sockets — they are seated by gravity only,

nothing clips or retains them. It is lovely as a shelf display, but it is

not meant for carrying the dice from place to place: lift, tip or

jostle the rack and the vials will simply fall out. Move the rack empty

and re-seat the vials at the table.

What you print

| STL | Role |

|-----|------|

| vial_die_units_3color.stl| d10 1–10, three named solids (potion + numerals + cork), one coordinate frame |

| vial_die_tens_3color.stl| d10 00–90, the percentile partner |

| vial_stand_2color.stl| 6-bay apothecary cabinet, two named solids (stone body + gold sigils) |

| vial_die_units.stl/ vial_die_tens.stl| single-colour fused dice (grooves empty for paint-fill) |

| vial_stand.stl| single-colour stand (glyphs empty for paint-fill) |

Three / two-colour the easy way

Each *_3color/ *_2colorfile is several **named solids sharing one

coordinate frame**. In Bambu Studio: Import → right-click →

Split to Parts → assign each part a filament (potion = translucent,

numerals = contrast, cork = brown; stand = stone, sigils = gold). The

numerals and sigils are intersected with the body so they sit flush in

exactly their engraved grooves — perfectly registered, nothing to move.

Prefer paint? Print the single-colour files and brush acrylic into the

grooves, wiped flush.

Print

• Dice export already lying on one flat face → flat on the bed,

•   no supports. End tapers are 45°; the neck/cork cantilever prints

•   clean in PLA. A skirt/brim helps the small contact line.

• - Stand prints flat on its base, no supports — open-top conical

•   sockets, self-supporting arched panel + bevelled plinth (≤45°).

• - 0.2 mm layers, 3 walls. PLA or PETG, any 0.4 mm FDM (Bambu Lab P2S).

Fair roll

Every one of the 10 faces is identical about the roll axis, so the die

is fair like a pencil/spindle die. Give it a real roll, not a drop.

Source (parametric)

vial_dice.scadis fully parametric. facessets the die (6/8/10/12),

die_typepicks the units/tens preset, and *face_labels** lets you

engrave any set of labels — runes, suits, 0–9, custom text — one per

flat. Stand size, socket count and clearances are all variables.

Re-export with the bundled build.sh.