1 yr. ago • 94%

What are your favorite accessories?

Not the coolest or most expensive ones but the ones that you actually use All The Time.

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I have a combination dice tower, dice try and dice storage system that I would fight tooth and nail to keep.

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- That looks amazing! Did you make it yourself or where did you get it from?
  
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  I got it from a shop on Taobao. (Along with the dice you see there including the skull-face D6s, the ancient Chinese d18, the Chinese Chess dice, ...)
  
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Mine:

A couple of very cheap sectioned trays. Shallow enough to make grabbing tokens easy and enough sections to organize them. We use these for pretty much every game with tokens.

A side-table to help deal with table hogs.

A couple of those foldable dice trays. I don't actually use them for dice but as a flexible funnel when bagging things.

Notepad, pencils, eraser

An empty tea tin. I use this for some games where you frequently draw items from a bag because it's a lot faster.
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Card sleeves. Not on all games, but the one you manipulate the cards a lot. My last sleeved game is Sea, Salt & Paper.

Card playing mat. Makes the card manipulation so much easier on flat tables.
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- Which mats and sleeves can you recommend?
  
  We usually sleeve games once its obvious we are going to play it a lot. Terraforming Mars, Clank, Dominion, Ark Nova all come to mind. But sometimes the sleeves are rather sticky. It feels like good sleeves are super expensive.
  
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  Dragon Shield Matte are amazing! IMO I haven't felt an experience of holding cards like Dragon Shield (and I've used a lot of other sleeves for games that don't fit the standard card size). Just my two cents.
  
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  Not OP but Arcane Tinmen make pretty nice sleeves. I recommend the non-glare ones. For playmats I can recommend the 3’x3’ off-brand X-Wing mats.
  
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My favourite cheap accessory is silicone muffin cups. Available in multiple colours. Fits all your different resources. I think nearly every second person in our club has some. Extra nice: cups with a fold halfway up. Perfect to make half cups for fewer recourses. When not in use, make cupcakes.

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We do have a 3D printer and I love improving my games with all sorts of little things. I did also print some 1-part, 2-part, 3-part and 4-part stackable, multicolored trays which I love and use for many game.

And I have also folded some origami for Everdell which is a great addition and still all fits into the box:

But my favorite is our Burgundy Hexagon - it holds all the components of the game and includes also two dice trays. I would not want to play it without it, it makes playing much more fluid. The downtime inbetween phases is super short.

And all put back together:

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My calico games bag that says, "I have too many boardgames, said no one ever" (c:

A large piece of orange felt as a table topper.

A low ceramic 4 compartment serving tray, for counters and other bits. It is the perfect dimension, weight and feel.

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X-trays to store game pieces is life-changing. The lids hold on well and they are stackable. They come with me for any game. And they are like $1.50 each

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- Are those the trays used to grow plants?
  
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  What? It’s for board game pieces
  
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Pennygems. Absolutely kills me they aren't sold anymore.

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- Burger Tokens are pretty great.
  
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  These look excellent, thank you! I'll probably be picking up a Keyforge set.
  
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I like my neoprene mousemat-style playmat. Makes it easier to pick op cards and other components and offers slight protection as well.

I use a 36”x36” one made for X-Wing with a nice, low-key space theme.

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Beer.

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A thin piece of felt the size of my dining room table.

I use it every time we play anything, at minimum, weekly.

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