After years of going "Eh, I'll get these eventually," Pathfinder 2 gave me the kick in the form of realizing "Oh, crap, Paizo probably going to cycle out old product for new on these" and have loaded up on all 6 Bestiary Boxes + a few others over the past two months.
Now that I'm loaded up, I need to get organized so things can be found quickly. I'm thinking of loading up on plastic tackle/craft tray/boxes, but I'm wondering if there are better ideas for organizing, and who better to ask than other players?
I used binder card sleeve pages. I think they are for 41 mm x 63 mm cards.
The upside is they are very fast and easy to search through. With some creative use of space they will fit small, medium and large pawns. I added a playing card sleeve page at the end for huge pawns.
The downsides is that they don't fit well, I'm sure pawns would fall out if I had to transport them. They are costly and very space intensive. An adventure path set makes it's own book, I haven't tried to fit an entire bestiary box.
Given that I'm using it for only a single adventure path and am running from home, it works for me.
I'm thinking of loading up on plastic tackle/craft tray/boxes, but I'm wondering if there are better ideas for organizing, and who better to ask than other players?
I have a 14" x 9" x 2" tackle box that I use for the single pawn set I own (Summon Monster). It has adjustable dividers, so I can separate pawns by size then by type (animals, outsiders). It's just about the perfect size for that one set, plus a set of pawn bases.
The compartments for the huge pawns have projections in the middle where I left out a divider. Rather than let those scratch up my pawns, I trimmed down some of the punched out sheets to fit in the bottom, so that the pawns rest on those instead.
I'm not sure what I'd do if I had to organize multiple sets. Probably throw them across the room. ;) (I used to own some of WOTC's D&D tile sets, but they were such a pain to organize and that I eventually gifted them to someone else.)
DM Livgin
Can you give us a link to what you are using?
Try as I may I can not find the same product online. I'll keep an eye out.
Hmm...I think I am going to pick up more of these parts organizers. Had a spare lying around and it fit six boxes worth of bases in one of them and the price is right.
I picked up three 2-packs of those parts organizers and IT IS NOT ENOUGH.
I'm...probably going to need twice as many. Probably more, thanks to some Starfinder stuff I already had and an old 4e Monster Vault token box that I got aeons ago. The Undead and Fiends box needs to be split and I haven't even gotten to the Villain Codex or the Inner Sea Pawn Box.
Still better than sorting Legos.
What I really like is that the HDX parts boxes I linked in the above post can lock together, which makes them so, so much easier to carry a stack of them than a stack of pawn boxes. Get some thin sheets of craft foam to line the compartments with and they'd work well for painted minis, too.
I just pop the pawns back into their cardboard forms, and keep them in the original boxes.
(Of course, with the shift to online play, I haven't opened up a pawn box in months and months...)
You can't beat this in my opinion. It's expensive, but worth it.