Saturday, May 2, 2015

Eldritch Horror Organization

   Fans of tabletop boardgaming can agree: Eldritch Horror is a pretty flippin' sweet game. Also, it's got like a grazillion pieces that you need to fit back inside the box somehow. Everyone's got their own system of storage. Usually it's fitting them all into their bags; I'm not sure how many people remove the standees from the standee bottoms, but that takes up a bit of valuable box room.

   The layout of the box, I should mention. This is how the box comes. It's such that there's a raised cardboard shape for the board to go, and a narrow valley down the middle that the pieces all must go in, underneath that, with cardboard slats from the bottom that can be used to give the game's card decks their own space at the ends with the baggies of chits and everything dumped in the middle.You'd better make sure that the baggies have the air squeezed out, to fit, and even then (if you're ingenuous and/or ingenious) you may want to shove some of the baggies in underneath the storage box standout.

   As such, it's not very surprising that some people opt to go for storage like this, this or even this or this, but, personally I find this unfair to the original box designers (unless... they'd intended us to come up with such solutions...)

   Is there no way to achieve both? Well, actually...


The myriad pieces required at various points in the game, once dumped into various baggies that only separated them fundamentally, could now be separated almost entirely uniquely (tickets, for example, we still just put into the same cubbie, and the miscellaneous bits like the omen track markers can go together as well.) The standees get put under the custom Fantasy Flight storage tray cardboard.

   The plastic container had been used to house dice for as far back as I can remember having dice that needed storing. The container is divided up into 6 bins, which is nice but we weren't really divvying the dice into categories at all and they didn't need to be separate in the first place. We dumped those into a ceramic handmade bowl.

Bonus points to those who can name the source of some of these dice? I guess
   Thanks be the fact that we're on a no-sweet program right now, there used to be sweets in the bowl but we put the dice in there since Mom emptied the bowl Tuesday-ish.

   The standees, those we put in the empty space underneath the cardboard box fold.

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