Hello New Warhammer Players! Here are some helpful hints I've learned so far in organizing the game. I hope they can be of some use to you.

First:

Buy Sleeves for your cards. It's the first thing I did and I'm glad, the second game, we had a pop spill.

www.bagsunlimited.com/cart/browse.asp

This is where you can buy sleves for your career cards. 4 1/16 x 5 1/16

100 for 5 bucks.

The sleeves for your cards (Info Nezzir found)

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=86&esem=1
www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp

Total:
217+ = 5 packs of green $2.99 x 5 = $14.95
254+ = 6 packs of yellow $2.49 X 6 = $14.94

$29.89

FFS03 Standard American 2 1/4 X 3 1/2 IN 56 X 87 MM Green
FFS01 Mini American 1 5/8 X 2 1/2 IN 41 X 63 MM Yellow

This covers the box set and the adventurer's toolkit.

These are two baseball card boxes that cost a dollar a piece and an excellent cheap and easy way to store your cards not being used by players.

These are the small cards in the box. You can get different size boxes but I wanted one that would hold more expansion cards.

These are the full size cards. You'll notice the cardboard dividers seperating the cards between spells, favors, combat, social cards and terrian cards.

Get yourself a binder and make scan copies, or print copies from a pdf of the monster sheets. Then place these copies is plastic protector sheets and put them in a binder. You can then use a wet erase marker to make notes right on the page that erase with a damp cloth.

I like to use ziplock bags to store each character in. This way before a game you pass out each bag to a player. There's one drawback to this I'll mention, the character sheets do get bent up from time to time around the edges. That said, I like this idea more than the character boxes.

Next stop is here: http://rpg.geekdo.com/files/thing/55836 . this is the RPG geek, if you don't have an account make one, it's well worth the time and effort. On this page you'll find all the nifty cheat sheets that people have made for this game. Two that have been very handy for me:

rpg.geekdo.com/filepage/49644

rpg.geekdo.com/filepage/49645

I've been asked about table space for the game quite a bit. For 6 players and a GM, having enough room like you don't feel cramped I recommend 2 tables 2 1/2 feet wide, 6 feet long put together.

That's what this table is.

I encourage everyone else to add to this thread, helpful tips to new players and GMs just getting started.

I like a dry erase board for combat

Don't pay 30 bucks for a board either. You can get them as cheap as 12 bucks at hobby lobby.

Good Luck!

wow - nice post - thanks for taking the effort. There are some nice ideas, will pick up on a few when my copy arrives.

Very nice - thx Sinister.

Very cool, Sinister, particularly with regard to the card holders and websites.

I just can't get over the amount of stuff on the table, excluding the map in the middle, cards and paper sheets everywhere

I did all of my cards in a 3-ring binder.

jh

Emirikol said:

That idea is a good one. Do you have your cards in sleeves? I just wonder if they fit in the binder with sleeves.

The 4x5 negative page holders were a god-send! Since I don't allow my players to even TOUCH my career cards, they remain in the binder BTW, we put SOCKETS and career card info on the character sheets. It dramatically reduced the amount of crap on the table.

jh

Emirikol said:

What about the other cards? Do the players have those?

Emirikol said:

A) I am in the process of hunting down said 4x5 negative pages. I have tried a *number* of other FAILED approaches.

B) That's just WRONG. IMHO the players *need* to have the career cards in front of them. It adds a lot to the atmosphere.

Sinister said:

Yes..except for the career ability card. There's no point in having that on the table. If I was intent on putting out there, I think I'd paperclip it to the career card itself, since none of that information is even necessary when you put the sockets on the character sheet.

I'm also planning ahead for a convention. There's no way I'm going to sacrifice $119 worth of cards and stuff for people I don't know very well.

jh

These are what the career sleves look like by the way. They aren't nearly as stiff as the FFG card sleeves but they fit for these card perfecty.