Summer's here!

And in a few weeks from now, i'll be taking my family on a month long nomad trip around Sweden. The great outdoors and stuff.

Basically that means rain right? Sooo... I'm luring my wife into packing the littlest tiniest box of comfort Descent just in case...

I was wondering, has anyone else been travelling around with the game? Or considered it?

Smuggling the whole collection would be - well - beyond mad.

But maybe - just maybe - i can fit everything i need for just one of the Coop sets into one box?

Some heroes with their essentials, a few fixed monsters, the matching cards, a child's hand worth of die, a minimalistic bag of tokens, ...

Doable i guess.

Anyone been there done that? If not i'll stop doubting and start indexing it, with the urgent things i now really need to start packing so she says :-)

Sunscreen? - nah.

Big mofo monsters? - check.

I am going to a game day tomorrow ... traveling about 30 minutes from the east side of Las Vegas to the west side.

I actually had thought of bringing some parts of D2e so that we could play a co-op. When I set down to try and do it, however, I was basically left with a mess.

Take Forgotten Souls for example. Have to bring the basic Forgotten Souls stuff. Easy enough.

Have to bring all of the monsters specified as possible for the co-op. Only 4 monster types, but about what ... 15 of them altogether. Getting harder.

Now, I have to bring 70+ hero cards, all of the figures, a crap load of tiles, 125+ class cards, 125+ shop item cards, etc., etc., etc.

I gave up.

All of my D2e stuff takes 5 large plastic containers, all stored in a single large rubber maid tote. I get a work out just moving it around.

EDIT: I suppose you could pre-select heroes and a class, you could pull aside all possible map tiles, you could proxy things like shop items, search deck, conditions, tokens, etc. After all of that, however, it no longer feels like D2e.

Well, traveling as in any2cards' scenario is no problem, I've done it a few times already since I can just fit my custom box and some smaller boxes in one ikea bag and take it to a friends place with relative ease.

So if you are going by car and got room for 1 ikea bag (it'll fit right in in Sweden ) you can take everything.

otherwise, just decide on the quest(s) you might want to play and make sure you got all the tiles/tokens/components for those?

Which will be even easier to do for the co-op expansion, since all possible tiles are listed in the manual for it

EDIT: I suppose you could pre-select heroes and a class.

Exactly what I wanted to suggest

Sorry Atom4geVampire, but I must disagree ...

I suppose if you are young and virile it may be possible to LUG around that Ikea bag and call it transportable ...

I am pretty sure I carried less gear around as a Navy Seal though ...

EDIT: To me, something easily transportable for a game would be one individual plastic container in your entire Ikea bag ... LOL.

Well, then there is no need for discussion, you are never going to fit descent in one small box like that

I just said that it works for me when we are playing at a friends place. That means walking from my apartment to my car, putting the bag in the backseat, driving to my friends place and walking to his apartment. All with just one 'item' to carry.

And its not like the bag weighs thát much

This of course becomes a less viable (but in my opinion still possible) option when using public transport

When you are going on vacation by plane on the other hand you are not going to fit this in your suitcase, nor when you go hiking or whatever and plan to play descent when you take a break.

... nor when you go hiking or whatever and plan to play descent when you take a break.

Yeah ... I can picture this now ...

"Honey, you carry the back pack with all of the Descent gear. I'll carry the tent and sleeping bags".

"What's that?"

"No, we don't need any food, water, beer, ditty bags, cooking equipment, etc."

"After all, love and Descent will sustain us ..."

All my stuff ( currently) fits in two Descent Boxes. Valyndra and Queen Ariad take up alot of space.

Managed to fit the bits needed for the "Nature's Ire" coop into one cramped bigbox, so its doable!

Will post some pictures later on

All my stuff ( currently) fits in two Descent Boxes. Valyndra and Queen Ariad take up alot of space.

Mine does not. My map tiles fill the core box, the cards all take a big box, and the minis and tokens are in separate plano boxes. The worst part is that I only own 4 LT packs, so there is a large number of cards and minis I don't have.

On the note of travel size, you could probably print out paper map tile substitutes and use them instead of bringing map tiles around- this would likely be unsatisfactory to most players. I solve the travel problem by leaving descent home when I travel, and volunteering to host whenever we play.

I solve the travel problem by leaving descent home when I travel, and volunteering to host whenever we play.

^--- This !!!

+1,000,000

The process :-)

^^ the collection

^^ all the compontents

^^ the bits for the coop

^^ tightly in a box

^^ and the final travel box :-)

I recently reorganized. I can still fit everything in two boxes, minus Valyndra and Queen Ariad figures. (They're just.... big...)

Box 1: Original game Box

Rulebook, Quest Guides, Plot Deck Rules, Printed Co-OP Rules, Printed out Logs of Campaigns. ( Maybe I should get a folder for them all.)

Pencil.

Plot Decks all Rubberbanded together.

Hero Figure Bag.

Lieutenant Figure Bag.

Large Monster Bag. ( Also fits Small Monsters that are Large.)

Small Monster Bag.

Monster/Lieutenant/Ally Card Bag.

Hero Sheet Bag.

Co-Op Bag consists of Exploration and Peril Cards.

Loot Track, Co-OP misc.

Condition Bag- Cards and Tokens.

Search Bag- Cards and Tokens.

Hero Token Bag- Has the colored Tokens and the Reference Cards.

Class Card Bag- All Class cards in here.

Class Token Bag- Tokens for specific Classes. ( Also put Infector Tokens in here.)

Objective and Villager Token Bag.

Secret Room Bag- Secret Room Tiles, Cards and Challenge Tokens.

Travel Card Bag

Rumor Card/Advanced Quest Bag.

Dice Bag

Overlord Card Bag

Doors and Stands Bag

Overgrowth Bag.

Lieutenant Token Bag

Proof or Purchase Bag ( has all proofs of all products in it.)

Box 2 Laybrynth of Ruin Size: Map Tiles.

( Can also fit Val and Q/Ariad in it if I move the tiles around.)

Is that it? I think so...

You can really fit all the tiles in a LoR box? I can barely fit them in the core box, and they're really packed in there.

Yes, they fit really well. If you need to organize them I suggest doing it this way.

Large Map Tiles go on bottom.

Medium Map tiles or Awkward Shaped Tiles Next.

Square Map Tiles

Corridor Map Tiles

Then all the little Misc. Tiles.

Sometimes put the small ones on the bottom. But yes, so far- Core Game, LoR, LotW,Trollfens, all fit in the LoR box.

Adding SoN and MoR might make the difference.

They might. I don't really see me getting Shadows anytime soon, but who knows. That'll probably be the largest set of tiles I add to the collection. But even so, my tile box isn't exactly filled to capacity yet. I'm confident I'll be able to fit them all.

But... Nerekhall is great!

Nerkenhall looks awesome, but it's unfortunately something I'll pick up down the line. Most likely ask for it for Xmas. I just picked up Trollfens last week though. That means next week I'm gonna have to plop down some cash for Bolgoreth. After that happens, I really want to play a solo Mini-Campaign. With an all elf group. Roganna, Syndreal, Laurel and Quellen perhaps. After Bolgoreth I'll probably focus on getting Nature's Ire.

You can really fit all the tiles in a LoR box? I can barely fit them in the core box, and they're really packed in there.

I currently store the core game Nerekhall and LoR Tiles in the core box with an big box expansion insert and all the questbooks on the top.

The trick is to put all the common tiles on the edge of one side of the box: The big tiles at the bottom of your box on one side, the square and rectangle tiles fit together on the other side of the box, bridge and way tiles fit on the 3rd side. Turns can be placed tetris style to form a square.and lastly all the uneven tiles can be placed on top of this fundament rather quickly. Additionally I packed the small corridors and 1-2space connector tiles and entrence/exits in seperate small bags. This really speeds up the setup process for me.

P.S.: I didn't play Heirs of Blood yet, but **** the Nerekhall quests are well designed. Alternative paths to every point of the map really makes the whole monster-blocking more strategic and easier to deal with.

I´ve been travelling in public transport with Descent and other games (some of which even more problematic than Descent) for the past 5 years. I´ve found that the key was to plan for the next quests and only carry whatever is required to cover these. It takes me 1 big box, 1 small box, 1 tool box (tokens) and sometimes one extra shoe box for the minis if they don't all fit in the big box. I could try and find a nice looking box where all of this stuff would fit, but it would be way to big for me to carry (thinking height mainly) and easily damageable bearing in mind the transport (e.g. it's not just sitting in the back of a car).

At home I simply split the components we are currently using from the rest, which also helps in planning for the next quests.

Then I don't really care if the Descent boxes take light damage due to transport, they´re just boxes, but I have to admit that painted minis need some care. In the shoe box I have sometimes wrapped them around a t-shirt or even used socks to hold them, which limits friction.

Yes I am going to actually be starting to use a public transport starting tomorrow. I have finally gotten a game night going at a store... we'll see how it goes.