Hey guys, sorry haven't been on in a while, been busy with alot of stuff. Anyways, I'm excited for the highland expansion like everyone else, theirs a new board, 100+ more cards, and 6 new characters. I was packing my stuff in the talisman box after I was done playing (reaper, dungeon, and frostmarch) and i'm wondering, can we fit the highlands in their? The top of the box is already being raised a bit by the dungeon board, and I can't fathom how i'm going to fit in the new cards Its essentially putting in another dungeon, which was pretty big on it's own. How are you guys going to solve this problem?

I have a high-tech briefcase that has now become home to my Talisman. I'd post some pictures of it, but I am busy painting the mini's at the moment.

Around our gang, we use one base game box for boards and sundries, and the dungeon box for cards (stored in purchase or home made deck boxes). It's worked well so far, and I think (fingers crossed) it'll still be okay with the Highlands added. (We'll put the Highlands box in the closet as backup storage).

I guess what I'm saying is that if you're trying to get in all in one box ... GIVE UP NOW!

JCHendee said:

I agree with JC. We must accept that the Talisman box is no longer suitable to contain all expansions. I am also working on a solution for packing.

Said it before, but guess repeating won't hurt. I currently store everything in the Dungeon box with the insert flipped upside down. There is still tons of room in there, Highlands and next small box should definately fit there. Only thing I will need to tweak (I think) are where each deck goes. As it stands, I use the lower "cup" for the small cards, top "cup" has big cards and bags with miniatures, dice, gold, etc.

Dam said:

Yes, I tried that too and it worked for me as well until I got my cards sleved. I know that the box is not designed for sleved cards but as you said, the method will work with expansions to Highland and next small expansion. After that the box is sated and a new solution is needed anyway.

For the moment my box looks like a mess. I think the room in the Talisman box can be used more effective, so I am planning to take out the original plastic card holder and replace it with a homemade in cardboard. I will post some images if it succeed.

I sleeved my cards when I added Dungeon. Before adding FM, I kept everything in the Dungeon box with the insert in normal mode, keeping the characters and bags under the insert, cards still fitted into the center slot. Not standing up, but in a pile (like you, or at least I, keep them during a game, like a draw pile). With FM in the mix, the piles became too thick to fit everything into the center slot, so flipping the upside down gave a lot of free room.

My current storage with cards goes something like this (warning, very crude and rough "sketch"):

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Meaning down the left-hand edge is most of the Adventure deck, along the bottom edge those four decks listed. On the right-hand edge (couldn't get it into the schematic here) are the rest of the Adventure cards and the Spell cards. This setup leaves room above the four decks for at least another similar amount of cards. However, I think if I were to take the alignment of the Adventure deck and put all the cards in that orientation, it could take even more cards (since there would be less wasted space. So the storage would look like:

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I have stil some room because i have 2 base game talisman boxes

I can try to add some cards in the little room boxes from Dungeon or Highlands, but i can also buy a third main game box for storing all the cards!

I just solved my box packing problem... Pretty easy actually. I made a two box system as it would be impossible to place the gameboard and 4 regions in the same box as cards. When we have all four regions, I think they will just fit into one box.

This system gives lots of flexibility. I can easy arange it to the need I get. As you can see there is still lots of room for further expansions.

I am very happy with this

Wow,

That's looking good!

Hey Lasse, very tidy and lean - I like it, but... I still prefer my little boxes to just pull out, open, and start playing.

By the by, is that foam core or something else you used to create your interlocking dividers?

Hey Mr. Brogger, I love your solution! What material is that?

Allawi

JCHendee said:

I made the dividers of 2mm carton. In the bottom of the miniatures, counters, coins and tokens I used foam as interlocking to protect from scrathes.The foam also makes it easier picking up coins etc. from the box.

Yes, I like your boxes very munch too JC, and on firsthand I thought that was what I also would do, but my seperaters was just a bit faster for me to create.

My group is also used to take out the cards from the box and shuffle them, then place them around the boards, so I gues it wouln't bother them.

I like that it all fits in two boxes too.

cheers

Very nice! Our approach with the boxes is that rarely do we get all the way through a deck, especially Adventures. There's a black spacer in the box behind which discards are inserted. Some games will pull out the cards and reshuffle; other games, we'll just pick up where we left off in the deck for a new game, thereby eventually cycling through all of the cards. That's probably not going to appeal to most groups, but we do start some games pretty fast that way.

I do have some backup and intermittently used game components and cards though. I may have to take shot at copying what you've done to accomodate them.

Mr. Brogger said:

where did you get the cones for the strength, craft, and lives. did you buy them some place or are they from the old game

berkanderson said:

From R4th base game? If like me, you have BI 4th edition + Upgrade Pack, you don't have cones (oh, the humanity ).

berkanderson said:

Just what Dam said, you need the revised 4th. edition Talisman base game.

Mr. Brogger said:

Or 3rd edition base game

Cheers

Dam said:

mine didnt come with cones, it came with little squares with numbers 1-4 on them and there arent near enough of them

berkanderson said:

There is a 4th. edition Talisman and a 4th. edition revised Talisman. When Fantasy Flight Games took over from Games Workshop they changed a lot and called it Talisman 4th. edition revised. One of the changes was the cones. So if your version is only called 4th. edition and not revised, you do not have the cones. If you have the revised version, there have been some strange mistake.

Hope that helped to clarifie it.

cheers

mine is the 4th edition revised, so basically i got screwed huh?! LOL

berkanderson said:

That is weird what about the characters then, are they paper tokens or plastic miniatures ?

Mr. Brogger said:

i have plastic characters

I have no idea why you did not get the cones. If I was you I would contact FFG and explain it to them. I think they will be willing to send you some cones then.

Best luck to you

Depends if you actually bought the full Revised 4th Edition or just the Upgrade pack to go with an original 4th Edition.