Not sure the best place to put this, but figured this a good start.
As Sentinels has a lot of cards, I thought I’d share this. If you’ve never used Hugo’s Amazing Tape (http://tinyurl.com/amazingtape) to store decks of cards, I highly recommend it: it won’t damage the cards, doesn’t degrade, and holds cards better than rubber bands.
No, I have no affiliation with the maker; I just know it works really well.
Just spent the evening using the last of mine to put away my new Sentinels cards. (Not that they’ll stay put away for long…) I was going to store them in card boxes, but the boxes didn’t all fit in the Sentinels box, and I really wanted to keep the cards in the box.
Anyone have other ideas/suggestions for ways to protect decks of cards?
I can say that I just finished putting all the cards into sleeves and the box can just barely contain it all. I’m going to have come up with a better storage method at some point.
Considering about how many cards the game already comes with and the amount of expansions, eventually you’ll probably have to have somewhere to store all those clear plactic card boxes, which is kind of ashame, because it probably would work out pretty well other than that.
I currently keep my sleeved cards in the card box, but it is a really tight fit. For people who really like better organizational systems, we might consider creating and selling a custom “Sentinels of the Multiverse” storage box that can concisely store and organize all of the cards at some point in the future (if that is something that people are really interested in having). Let us know!
I registered just to add my vote for this. I’ve been looking since I made it home from GenCon for something awesome to put my cards in. However, I still want them in their box. I just don’t like having to separate everything out before a game.
Also, AMAZING job guys. My friends have already planned gaming nights just because they want more SotM!
I like keeping them in the original box aswell, since it has the nice cover art on it. But of course a new custom box to keep the cards in will also be a very nice addition. Made with plenty of room to store some of the additional expansions as well of course. Don’t forget a handle, making it a lot easier to carry.
I’ve been considering attempting to make tuck boxes for each hero/villian and then one for the environments. I’ve never made tuck boxes before, but then this is the first game that has ever made me want to. I have some free time over the next few days and will see if I can put one together. If I do, I’ll try to post a link here.
The one part I was dissappointed with was the card box itself. Without something to hold the decks together, the box itself is not a very good container once the card packs are opened. I managed to find a cardboard card box to copy now, but it would be nice if future expansions were either one long card box holding all cards, or maybe even small deck boxes contained in a larger box. I might try that tuckbox thing, we have really thick yellow paper at work; I could print out a box template for each deck I have. (Maybe someone could give me the dimensions I should use, most specifically the thickness of 41/42 card hero deck, 27 card villain deck, and 15 card environment deck, that’d be great, or I could try to figure it out myself (though I have no ruler or anything…).)
We are working with the printer to see if we can get a more convenient box for future expansions. The only issue is cost; we went with the cheapest box possible so that we could sell the game at $39.95 retail, but we are not entirely happy with the dimensions for the reasons you described. For future printings, superior box dimensions may be possible (especially if we can afford to do bigger print runs, since that brings down the per-unit price).
Well, I just printed one at B8 size (6.3cmx8.8cm) and a width of 2.25cm. Hopefully this works out decent enough, and, if so, I can simply scale as necessary. I know the dimensions per card are printed on the box, but I don’t have it handy here at work, and I’m not sure how thick the cards are.
Okay… So, if I’m reading the definition of pt correctly, it means I made this box a bit over twice the size necessary. I’ll test this out for certain when I get home. If so, then it should be simple for me to create the nine boxes I’ll need (though I’ll be stuck with boring black text on yellow background, heheheh).
Well, I got home tonight, found out the cards are about 1-2 mm larger than even the outside of the box (maybe some measuring error when creating the PDF? I’ll probably try at 2.5"x3.5" (that’s what 63mm x 88mm round up to) to give extra space, and I’ll also likely add a couple extra pts in thickness. And if I find something that works great, I’ll post the exact dimensions I used.
