• Poker Night

Poker night is a tried-and-true classic that’s been threaded throughout the community since its inception. It’s tense and strategic, and the winners always come away happy at the end of the evening.

3D printing could spruce up your poker night in a variety of ways, but an absolute favorite of ours has to be personalized poker chips.

You can source a basic 3D model for poker chips on a variety of websites that store open-source designs compatible with your printer, and once you have the design at your fingertips, it’ll just take a little bit of know-how to put any kind of creative spin on your poker chips. Add cool imagery to impress the group or make your chips your own with personalized logos or designs that represent your friends and family, bringing an extra sense of community to the game.

Of course, there are plenty of other options for a poker night as well¾print a token holder to hold your new chips, and a card holder as well. You can print out dealer chips and an insert to create your own casino-ready poker table. The possibilities are endless!

• Casino Night

If your new poker set doesn’t bring you close enough to the casino action, you can bring the whole casino to your home with your new 3D printer.

Options include a roulette wheel, blackjack tables, and craps markers, and 3D printing is even sufficiently advanced enough that you can print out an entire slot machine! You’ve already prepared your customized poker chips, so changing them a little will give you a special cascade to roll free of the slot machine when you hit it big. There are even pre-made design options for a whole sign for famous casinos, which you can hang in your living room while you put on the tuxedos and glam up for an at-home casino night worthy of Vegas.

Don’t forget to link them up with new casino options for online entertainment to bring your casino night to the next level.

• Traditional Board Games

The options for 3D printing aren’t limited to casino-style games. On a traditional games night, you might find yourself reaching for copies of classic games such as chess, ludo, scrabble, or battleship only to find them missing pieces or simply not there at all. With a 3D printer, it’s easy to make entire copies of famous games, as well as a wide variety of less well-known ones. You can print a whole battleship board or take a creative spin by designing your own unique chess pieces.

Another great use of 3D printing in any tabletop gaming is customized dice, winner’s trophies, and unique prizes. Even just a custom-designed board can add an exciting and immersive experience to a classic board games night.

• Tabletop Gaming

For more immersive tabletop games, such as D&D and Warhammer, players have always been using intricate miniatures and props¾often purchased for a pretty penny from your local games store. 3D printing has truly revolutionized game nights for these players, meaning you can design and print your own miniatures.

Players can bring their characters to life with intricate details and tailored likenesses, so all their friends can truly visualize the character they imagined behind their stats sheet. 3D-printed miniatures truly add a new level of immersive experience to this type of game, and you can go a step further with gorgeous props¾tumbling walls for that villainous castle and creeping goblins to populate your unexplored caverns.