So.... i have Descent main core. and roat to legend + well of darkness. But Since descent is a massive game i really need some jits box to maintain the game and so it would be easier to search your needed tokens...

At this point i see i need 3 box... overlord. heroes and normal misc. for effect and money. etc.

BUT. im sure some people have those boxes and i wonder how many slots i need to have there, since i dont want some useless slots there+ dont need a wayt to big box.....

so lets see if you ppl can help me...

I don't think anyone could "clearly" answer this. Currently I use two different methods, one for storage and one for gaming.

Storage, the world map board, OL and Graveyard box, a 10x6 inch box with 16 small compartments and one large stores most of the RtL special tokens (die, health and stamina upgrades, large coins and life markers, tables, throne, various object obstacles, Lts and the miniatures chosen to represent them out of my metal collection, special quest items, tokens, special end map parts for outdoor encounters and dungeon portals (any of the two sided, 2x1 special exit and portal parts). The large portals and exit portal for the dungeon). The game tracking sheets, All of these go in the original RtL game box and all of them have to do with RtL. As well all the rule books, dungeon guides and FaQ printouts.

ToI box is used for storing cards and other parts not currently in use (ie; crushing wall traps, the cursed terrain map pieces which have no use in RtL, avatar sheets, hero sheets, Vanilla Monster cards, set aside unusable treachery cards, hero figurines not in use, any cards not in use till their level comes up, or put away after their level have passed like treasure, the relics, Monster upgrade cards for RtL not in play).

WoD box is used to sort and store all smaller/lesser monsters (Bane Spiders, Beastmen, Ferrox, Hellhounds, Razorwings, Kobolds, Skeletons, Sorcerers, Deep Elves, Chaos Priests, Medusa, Shades, Blood Apes, & Lava Beetles)

AoD box is used for all large monsters (troll on the cover, made sense): (Wendigos, Trolls, Ogres, Manticores, Golems, Giants, Dragons, Ice Wyrms, Chaos Beasts, Demons, Naga)

Main Descent box, I have all the dungeon tiles sorted out and laid out flat on the bottom of the box for easy play and setup, on top of those go two containers, one like the RtL container (contains all terrain tiles from all expansions, from pits to lava, also contains alters and Rolling Boulder turn tiles, unused rune keys, chests, stairs, scything blades, boulders, encounter markers, eggs, glyphs, dark glyphs, treasure, invulnerability potions, familiars, monkey and relic tiles. The second container has 24 compartments which sort out in six rows of four as follows, first row: stamina, 50 gp, 100 gp, and 500 gp. Second row: 1 conquest tokens, 3 conquest tokens, 1 threat, 5 threat. Third row: 5 life, 1 life, health potions, stamina potions. Fourth row: Prolonged order actions, black dice upgrade tokens, power potions, and invisibility potions. Fifth row: Daze, Web, Burn and Curse tokens. Sixth row: Bleed, Stun, Poison and Frost tokens. This box basically contains the 24 most used tokens in the game. All the ToI map tiles are in two ziplock bags since they are rarely used, and all the door and normal end pieces are in another ziplock bag. Cards are sorted into various ziplock bags depending on type.

During game, the RtL box gets emptied and then gets used for all outdoor terrain tiles, The main Descent box holds all the Map tiles sorted and ready to place, the boxes are all out where they can be easily accessed (the RtL plastic box and last box mentioned are where I can access them, the third is set aside with the dungeon map parts only needing to be pulled out for level setups). Both the monster boxes have their lids flipped and are set where they can be easily accessed for reinforcment/spawn/area reveals.

Each time you buy a new expansion you'll find yourself adjusting how you store everything, whether you play Vanilla or Advanced will also affect how you store things (ie; we aren't using anything Vanilla only related so all that stuff is set aside). I would count out how many sorting compartments you feel you will need for individual items, I didn't sort every last token into individual compartments, for example, one compartment contains all the OL's mission card tokens (comet, scroll, dark brother) as well as the rumor token, siege tokens, another contains all the 10 and 25 health tokens as well as the 2500 gp tokens.

If you want an individual compartment for every token you will need the following for each box:

Descent Main Game: 42 - 28 compartments for tokens/markers/tiles

Tokens/Markers/Tiles: Relics, Pits (1, 2, and 3 space), Water (1, 2, and 3 space), Rubble (1, 2, and 3 space), Encounter, Glyphs, Stairs, Wound 1, Wound 5, Fatigue, Threat 1, Threat 5, Conquest 1, Conquest 5, 50gp, 100gp, 500 gp, Order (rest, guard, dodge, aim), Turn, Compass, Burn, Web, Poison, Stun, Monkey, Familiars, Training (melee, magic, range), Treasure, Chest, Health Potion, Stamina Potion = 36 compartments if you go with individual tokens. Though I would have a compartment for Turn, Monkey, and Compass, another for Relics and Familiars, another one for all the Order tokens, and use one for all the Training tokens. As for the obstackle tokens, if you can combine 1 & 2 space ones at the least, and use a fourth compartment to hold all the longer ones (1 of each of the 3 space to start, though this will grow with additional expansions), this would reduce the needed compartments to 28 or 29 for tokens.

Monsters: 5 small monster types (five compartments) and 7 large monster types (hard to compartment)

Well of Darkness: 13 - 7 compartments for tokens/markers/tiles

Tokens/Markers/Tiles: Lava (1, 2, and 3 space), Mud (1, 2, and 3 space) , Scything Blades, Boulder Ramps, Staircases, Bleed, Daze, Power Potions, Relics, Familiars, Dart Fields, Boulders. In the case of my containers they can fit large sized tiles. Staircases, Familiars, Relics can all go in with their counterparts from the Main Game, you would only need an additonal 7 compartments for the 1 -2 space tokens, an 8th if they are large eneogh to hold the Boulder tiles. The Dart Fields are too large for most trays, unless you can find one with multi sized compartments. which would mean you would need 9. As well if you don't find a way to combine the multiple sized tiles for Lava and Mud you'll need another 3-4 compartments for around 13.

Monsters: 2 small monster types (2 compartments), and one large monster type.

Altar of Despair: 13 - 9 compartments for tokens/markers/tiles

Tokens/Markers/Tiles: Fog (1, 2, and 3 space), Corrupted (1, 2, and 3 space), Dark Glyphs, Altars, Curse, Frost, Prolonged Order (tokens & markers), Invulnerability Potions, Familiars, Crushing Walls. Familiars can go in with previous Familiars so you would need another 9 compartments for everything except the Crushing Walls (which if you can fit Dart Fields somewhere, these will likely fit). 13 if you can't combine Fog and Corrupted multiple space tiles.

Monsters: 3 small monster types (3 compartments), two large.

Tomb of Ice: 6 - 4 compartments for tokens/markers/tiles

Tokens/Markers/Tiles: Ice (1, 2, and 3 space), Monster Eggs, Frozen Sarcophagus, Invisibility Potions, and a Relic (which can be put with the other Relics). So 6 compartments unless you combine the multiple spaced Ice tiles (which would be 4).

Monsters: 4 small monster types (4 compartments), 1 large

So for the Vanilla version of the game, with all expansions you would need 48 - 78 compartments depending on size of compartments and how you combine or sort them for your own use. And that's just for tokens, markers and tiles.

Road to Legend: Max about 21, can be reduced to 13 or less.

Tokens/Markers/Tiles Terrinoth Map & Various: Hero Party, OL Keep, Lieutenants, Siege & Raze, Elemental Temple, Scroll, Sunstone, Comet, Rumor, Shackle , Reinforcement, Crown of Elder Kings. You could sort these all out into individual compartments, but all of them will fit together in one, though you may want to seperate the Ltns making it 2 compartments, one may have to be larger unless you want to seperate out the large Lt figure markers.

Tokens/Markers/Tiles Training: Silver die upgrade (melee, range, magic), Gold die upgrade (melee, range, magic), Life upgrade (copper, silver, gold), fatigue upgrade (copper, silver, gold), Sleep, 2500gp, 10 Wound, 25 Wound, Villager, Throne/Circle, Sarcophagus/Fountain, Table/Bed, Bone/Mushroom. Not including the Throne, which could go in with the large Lt or other larger tiles, this adds 19 possible compartments, if you combine all the die upgrade by damage type you can reduce the 6 needed compartments to 2, same if you sort out the life and fatigue into level sorted compartments (copper, silver, gold), reducing it from 6 needed compartments to 3 which is how I sorted mine, works fine. You can combine the 10 and 25 wound tokens to reduce that down to one compartment. Which reduces you down to 13 compartments instead of 19.

With all sets that means you will likely end up with a need for 95 compartments or more if you want every little part sorted into seperate containers, and likely you will need different sized compartment containers (there are alot more of some tokens/markers/tiles than there are of others).

If you are likely to combine and lighten this you can end up with 61 or less compartments.

I have two containers with 17 compartments, and one with 24 for a total of 41 and I get along just fine, and one of those compartments is only used for little glass tokens I use to mark finished and closed dungeons, another holds all the metal figures I use to represent Ltns out of my collections.

I managed to reduce this much by putting three mixed types of terrain together. All one space pit, water and boulder tiles are in one compartment, all the 2 space ones are in another. Lava, Mud and Ice are done the same, and Fog, Corrupted again the same. All of the 3 space length tiles are together in one of the compartments (one of the 17 is longer than the others). In the same way I mix things that there are little of, but share common uses (ie, treasure and chest tokens).

I don't own Sea of Blood so can't help you there, and all of this will change with any release they do in the future. Check hobby shops, art and craft stores, sewing stores, and surprisingly dollar stores and you'll find what you are seeking, unless someone can point you to something better online.

The varying sizes of the monsters makes them harder to store, for the 1 and 2 space monsters this would be easy, the larger more bulky monsters this would be much harder and still be functional, I'd get a tray with compartments for the smaller and medium monsters, and an open container for all the larger ones without dividers (they'd just get in the way). Luck finding a good container for this lol. The various sizes, and use (often to rare) will likely be the best way to sort these. One of the expansion boxes is just large eneogh to hold all the Large monsters I listed above in the AoD box.

That should be eneogh information to confuse anybody.

I use Plano tackle boxes to store all the bits from Descent. They have one fairly large size that fits perfectly into the Descent box and can stack two on top of each other.

That also doesn't include dice or cards, I keep my dice in a seperate little box, and some people have containers for their cards.

Veritech said:

Forgot to double the 17, lets hope I never have to be responsible for doing calculations that might save the entire world. 58 compartments would have been the total, not 41.

Now that I feel extra stupid...

I also forgot to take into account heroe figures, all the extra ones from my game (at least till they're painted), are just stored aside in a ziplock bag. But they would need compartments also. 1-4 if you planned to break them up by melee, magic, range, and mix.

well i did some stuff also fast, since i needed to make room in my room..... was able to contain everything exept.. cards. and tiles....

gonna make pic later , to show it, but if i get more exp later i need to expand....

This is my Descent setup

Hmm, yes, a picture is worth a thousand words lol. Link to my photobucket Descent storage pics is below.

http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk35/SianDraconis/Descent%20Journeys%20in%20the%20Dark/

I altered the storage methods I use with Foamcore, no glue, just attached by simple friction. The card box bottom is more than secure even this way, doesn't take much to make your own storage if you are handy with measurements and have some hobby stuff about. I make paper model terrain for other games (see other albums if interested) so I have quite abit of experience trying to organize things lol. The bottom tray for tiles is 1 inch deep which seems to be more than eneogh for average tiles. All except the four largest fit into the bottom of the Descent box, the foamcore dividers keep them in place. I altered my original design for the card/door box which explains the extra unused slots cut into the foamcore.

http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk35/SianDraconis/Descent%20Journeys%20in%20the%20Dark/Storing%20Descent/