How do you store your pawns?

[Malwing]

I got the bestiary box pawns and the NPC Codex box pawns, which are great, but I'm having a hard time storing them and a harder time sorting them, so I wanted to know; The people that bought pawns, how do you sort and store your pawns?

[ubiquitous]

For the Bestiary 1, I'm using the box that they came in but I've separated the pawns into zip-lock bags, cutting them in half or thirds by alphabet. The huge-sized ones just sit in the box, as there's few enough that searching through them doesn't take all that long.

[Lincoln Hills]

Ordinarily I use one of those little plastic divider-things that are used in silverware drawers to segregate* the spoons from the forks. However, I keep meaning to drop by Big 5 Sporting Goods and pick up a nice-sized tackle box as a travel case.

As far as sorting them goes, I generally divide them into the following categories: Might-Be-PCs, Humanoid-But-Not-Usually-PCs, Dead Guys, Animals, Big Bugs, Swarms & Blobs, Outsiders, and Rares. With those categories you'll usually find a mini kinda like what you were looking for pretty quick.

Or do you mean in-game? Because in-game, I store my unwitting pawns in my Dolorous Labyrinth of Doom.

* Cutlery-racism!

[Jim Goings]

Malwing wrote:

I got the bestiary box pawns and the NPC Codex box pawns, which are great, but I'm having a hard time storing them and a harder time sorting them, so I wanted to know; The people that bought pawns, how do you sort and store your pawns?

Here my Reddit post with photos.

Turns out you can store A LOT of pawns in one box. :)

[Simon Legrande]

Pawns? We keep our action figures (plastic minis) in a plastic bag and sort through whatever is close enough when we need one. We use the plastic D&D minis that come in packs, they're pretty resilient.

[Jasque]

I keep mine in zip-lock bags in the original box. It is a tight fit though.

For the bestiary box, I took several hours to sort everything by creature type. This makes it easy for me to find everything now, but it took a lot more time to set up than I anticipated.

For the NPC Codex, I have bags for big categories that I might look for in a hurry. For instance, all the dwarfs are in a single bag. So are all the half-orcs. Stealthy types, melee fighters, archers--they all get their own bags. I sometimes design encounters on the fly, so if I need 3 medium-sized bowmen, I can just grab them real fast from my archers bag.

I keep extra bags for other purposes. There is a bag full of the pawns the PCs always use. Another bag is for the pawns I expect to use that session. And a final bag is labeled "clean-up". The clean-up bag is for everything we used during a game because I know I won't be in the mood to sort everything immediately after a session.

[Dragonriderje]

I have 2 Bestiary Boxes and 1 each of the Bestiary Box 2 and 3.

I alphabetized all the pawns together and then slotted them into some full page business card sleeve protectors. Like these: http://www.amazon.com/Avery-Business-Card-Pages-76009/dp/B00006IC8I

Up to 9 Medium sized pawns can fit into one business card slot standing vertical (3 stacks of 3), and up to 3 Large size pawns can fit inside horizontal. I put all the pages into a pair of 3 inch, D-ring binders and now I can just flip through them like trading cards. Works perfectly... for the medium and large pawns.

The huge pawns I just have stacked up and rubber banded in one of the boxes, and I haven't figured out a good way to store the small sized ones so I've left them all in the cardboard pages and only take them out as a I need them (which isn't often, honestly)