Hi all! I've fallen in love with Descent, and every week it seems my collection grows. While I don't own all of the Hero and Monster packs, or the Ltn packs, I do have all of the large and small boxed expansions and the game contents are spilling out everywhere!
I currently have everything in baggies, but it all feels very haphazard. How do you all store your Decent collection?
How to Store your Descent?
Check out the "Index of Useful Links" pinned to the top of this forum. Scroll down to "Storage Solutions" to find a bunch of good threads on the subject.
I store all the tiles in the boxes. (so base game tiles in the base game box etc.) All the cards are categorized in deck boxes. And I use a little IKEA storage box for all the tiny bits that I separate by plastic bags (conditions in a separate bag, all the hero tokens and familiars in a separate bag etc.).
Edit: In case you were wondering about the monsters, they are on my desk getting painted. A few of them accompany the boxes on my shelf. I don't like the idea of putting them all in a big box because something might break off.
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by Ceasarsalad101
I use a custom foamcore storage box to store everything:
More shots here:
(I should really make a separate topic about this sometime, and show updated images)
For the figures I recently bought the Citadel Crusade case:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dex68wssll4x3rs/2016-01-31%2010.47.14.jpg?dl=0
Descent is like a good wine, buy a few boxes and store them in your basement next to your best bottle. Then when your kid comes of age, crack the box and have a nice moment together.
And after that, well you need some shelf space
It depends whether you intend to paint your figures or not. Some people like buying miniatures cases, there are some on the market which are quite sturdy and can contain a lot, although you have to live with the eventuality that at some point there will be too much content and it won't all fit anymore. Then it is my opinion that these boxes are really ugly, expensive, and take a lot of space, but if you can hide it somewhere I guess it's one of the best options. I personally put the miniatures in various boxes (other emptied game boxes that I happen to havea around) in standing position. I made some cardboard bases for some of the monster groups so they don't just glide on the side when I manipulate the box, but none of it is really travel-friendly. When I need to carry the minis, I use show boxes with some clothes wrapped around the minis. That's the best way I know even if it doesn't sound "pretty". For info, I´m using public transport so I can't quite take one of these Plano boxes with me.
Then you have to think about how you want to access your Descent stuff. I personally hate when I have to spend 20 minutes just getting access to the game components, it has to be swift and painless. So this is what I do:
Current campaign:
- Tokens in a screw boxes. These types of boxes are golden as token storage for any board game. I use them a lot and they are quite inexpensive. Keep the screws somewhere, lol.
- Folder with printed information about the campaign, game rules, campaign book, FAQ etc.
- Core game box with everything needed to play the next 1-2 quests. That means the cards and the tiles, mainly.
- Expansion box for the minis if they don't fit in the core box.
Heroes stuff is all stored in a large plastic bag so every player can just crack his own bag and unfold hero sheet, skill cards, class tokens and whatnot.
The rest:
- I store all tiles in plastic zip bags in a big game box. I keep them gathered by number.
- All overlord-related stuff in an expansion box.
- All heroes-related stuff in another expansion box.
- All stuff I don't use at the moment in another expansion box (like Tainted cards, extra Threat tokens, co-op components, skill tokens etc)
For cards and bits I use Racco boxes. Here's an image for my storage of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, but it works well for Descent as well:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14855200/raaco.jpg
The inserts come in different sizes, and as luck would have it the inserts fit small and large cards, character cards and tokens very well. I picked these up at the hardware store. The only drawback is that these boxes are larger than the descent boxes, so they have to be stored outside.
The map tiles we store in zip lock bags, and sort them in bags labeled 1-9, 10-19, 20-29 and so on. Making it easy to find the parts you need. The Zip lock bags are stored in the descent boxes.
I added this thread to the Storage section within the Index of Useful Links thread at the top of this forum.