Sunday, January 12, 2025

Thieves' Cant Cipher Wheels

 


An actual interactive prop in the form of two large bracelets make up this 3D printed Thieves' Cant Cipher. On one bracelet are a bunch of symbols and on the second bracelet is the translation alphabet. Match up a symbol with a letter and write or decipher a message.

The best part is that enterprising user generated a DnD Cipher website to easily generate a string of text for your Dungeons and Dragons game. Maneuver the top and bottom rows representing the rings starting point and give your characters a clue such as B-DOT.


Using the cipher wheels generates the message - "meet me at the old oak tonight when the moon rises."
note: the website only works with lowercase letters in the message

I will definitely be incorporating this into my game. Probably be one of those deals where they find a message - maybe another clue like B-DOT - then maybe on a low level bad guy they see these cipher rings on the bad guy's wrist and they'll need to figure out how to procure them one way or another.

These were airbrushed with Glorious Gold.

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