My cheap DIY storage solution

By NickelPlate, in Talisman

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Greetings fellow Talisman fans,

I've been a long time Talisman fan since 2nd edition (I still have my copy) and just recently picked up all of the revised 4th stuff. I'm a big fan of simple, low cost, original box storage solutions that organize the game components for easy setup and play. I almost managed to fit everything into one box and am pretty pleased with the results and wanted to share. The box top doesn't quite seat all the way to the bottom but it isn't bad as the picture shows.

Materials required:

  • Cardboard
  • Sharp utility knife
  • Straight edge or triangle
  • Glue (I used Elmer's)
  • Tape measure or ruler

Sorry I just can't seem to make the insert image function work no matter what I try (links below).

As you can see, there is plenty of room left over after I made my cardboard dividers for more expansion cards, I would estimate two more expansions. All cards are sleeved with the Mini Chimera sleeves from Mayday Games.The cardboard dividers are 1-3/4" tall which is just enough room to protect the cards and provide a support structure for the game boards. I also made mini dividers to separate the dungeon, highland, purchase cards etc. You can even just use this as the draw box for all cards.

As an alternative, there is enough vertical space to stand the cards upright which also makes for more room for future expansion cards and other fiddly bits, but then the boards will have to fit in a separate box, and I'm not really crazy about carrying around 2 of the big boxes. I fit all of the minis in The Reaper box. I think there would be room to cram the minis in the left over space, but then no more room Sacred Pool and other expansions.

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Regards and Long Live Talisman.

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Its looks quite neat, I'm going to need to come up with a solution, but it might not involve the original boxes, I want to keep them perfect.

When we were kids we kind of half destroyed our old 1st/2nd edition set, it was played to death but we disgarded the expanison boxes, put everything in one box, we even removed some cards from the game becuase we judged there was too many talisman/mules/horse&cart. At one point we found some of the character cards were damaged on one corrner, so as I recall, we set about damaging all the others so that they would all look the same. We coloured in some cards of the black & white first edition so that they looked more like the 2nd edition set would have done...

I can see you are a million miles of destroying your game, but all i mean is, think careful about how you want to keep it stored. If I want to get hold of a good copy of Talisman 1st/2nd editon its going to cost me collectors prices, which for the moment I dont feel like paying, but eventually I will have to. If only when we was young we had kept everything nice corazon_roto.gif

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Hi Yyami,

I had all of my 2nd edition cards laminated before playing them. It has happily held up over the years and all the cards are still in pristine laminated condition. I wish I could say the same for my box. It's still in pretty good shape but as kids we played the hell of this game back in the 80s every chance we got.

I stop buying expansions after the first two. So I don't have Dungeon, City, Timescape or Dragons. At the time I remember thinking that all of those add on boards were silly (epecially Timescape). I wish I had bought them now sad.gif .

Regards,

NP

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Nice storage you made there. And man, are those adventure decks big!

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JCHendee said:

Nice storage you made there. And man, are those adventure decks big!

Thanks. Those decks are even bigger with the sleeves and with Sacred Pool on the way, they're gonna be colossal!