Going through my tiles sets to upgrade from a cardboard box to a nice file folder box and saw my random token drawing bag. A nod to @Dungeondive. Once I saw that you could get one of these in purple I had to have it.
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Ha, the Crown Royal bag! I had a friend when I was younger who kept all sorts of things in these bags. His folks must’ve loved the stuff.
I like the hanging folders in a plastic hanging file box for the tile sets. Just gotta make sure you get hanging folders with accordion sides or the smaller tiles tend to fall out when moving things around.
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So far I am not using folders. This box I was given has these really nice heavy plastic dividers and I lined the bottom with bubble wrap to protect the tiles. I am not sure how I will organize the passage tiles yet, probably a separate container.
What are your thoughts on renaming this topic to just general Shadows of Brimstone chat? I love reading and sharing about SoB. (Your call) Or maybe there already is one?
I have wanted to make a detailed video on how I have organized my SoB collection because I invest a lot of time, effort, and pride myself on these things, I just don’t feel like getting into audio and video editing lately. I could share pics here easy enough.
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Oh, that’s pretty close to what a hanging folder box looks like actually. 
And then I got a couple boxes like this for the cards:
And I keep it all in a big chest with an SOB emblem:
But yeah, I can rename the thread. It is now about more than just my originally posted customization topic.
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As luck would have it, @thekeeper has begun unearthing a cache of old Shadows of Brimstone videos from the archive:
Ah.. the Derelict Ship Expansion takes me back.
Now I want to haul out the SoB boxen and wander through a few portals and board Event Horizon with a six-shooter and questionable life choices.
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The Derelict Ship was always my favorite theme. I really want them to give it some more love, since I think it might be the otherworld with the least additional content. They did get the Xenocyte Impalers sometime in the last couple years and I grabbed them up immediately.
Though my favorite memory fighting there was when either due to some wandering monster mechanic or just straight up incorrect play we had Magma Fiends show up. All I could think was that a monster that melts through walls is the worst thing to fight on a spaceship. 
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My Blood Priestess found a Transfusion Kit last night. I feel like that should be her favorite thing ever.
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Me too. This thread got me all a flurry back in my boxes of SoB and I’ve been listening to Daniel’s playlist on a loop while I sleep.
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The Derelict Ship was always my favorite theme. I really want them to give it some more love, since I think it might be the otherworld with the least additional content.
I agree. I really like Derelict and Targa but they are both the most lacking.
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I really like HexCrawl but I find it really annoying when I run into battles on the overworld because I have to clear the table each time and the HexCrawl stuff already takes up all of the space.
I’d love to have a system where the overland fighting is abstracted and I just roll to see how the fight turns out but I don’t think I am going to invest the time to do that myself. In the meantime I either need to not use HexCrawl or leave parts out or hodge-podge my system.
On the way opposite side of things, I’d also like to make custom map/terrain features for the overland fight scenes because I love the concept, it’s just a lot to manage. I printed out the extensive map tiles that are linked to HC on BGG but I don’t really like their execution…
Arghhg,.. I love it and hate it. XD
I really want to print out custom trees and rocks, bushes, etc.
Maybe I can run HexCrawl on a side table or something.
The other issue I have with it is I am still never quite certain how to handle all the “once per battle” “once per adventure” type items and abilities.
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Targa got a bump when the Gates of Valhalla released. But I don’t like to mix all the original Targa stuff with it because the GoV Targa is the high-tech library. So we’ve got rules about jumping through gates in Targa or the Library (or Jargono/Valley of the Serpent Kings). Give it about a 33% chance that the first gate you find just sends you to the other area in that world. The events and map tiles really feel like they need to be separate. Even the enemies feel like they need to be separated some.
On cards or is that specifically from hexcrawl abilities? We keep blank cards around to use as stand-ins sometimes. If it’s once-per-something then we turn it sideways after use, until it refreshes. And if it’s not on a card we use blank acrylic tokens. Which are useful for tons of games. They’re bright colors and you can write or draw on them with dry-erase markers. Currently I’ve got an orange one sitting on a darkness card that effects a particular map tile, and another orange one on the map tile in question so I don’t have to remember what links where.
Thank you for this insight. I have been wondering if I should buy into some of the new enemies but hesitant thinking they may have rules that are more attuned to whatever heroes come in those smaller SoB Adventures sets.
Any thought’s on adding the Artifacts #2 packs? Are they more oriented toward those new sets or do you think they would be good to pick up even if I don’t own any of the SoB Adventures stuff?
On cards or is that specifically from hexcrawl abilities?
I think it’s too complicated to explain here, it’s nothing I can’t figure out.
Any thought’s on adding the Artifacts #2 packs? Are they more oriented toward those new sets or do you think they would be good to pick up even if I don’t own any of the SoB Adventures stuff?
I don’t recall exactly what’s in them, but I did mix all the artifacts together and I do have that set. My thoughts being that stuff from the library could find its way to the regular plateau and vice versa. Even the enemies aren’t strictly separated, it’s more like I might override having a Librarian out in the regular plateau and draw another card. And sometimes I might feel like the organic enemies don’t quite belong in the Library with all its robotic defenses… Some of which actually come with Gates of Valhalla like the Nomadic Yeti (it’s a Hellbear alternate). And Shadow Wolves… They might’ve come with GoV?
The stuff I strictly separate are the world cards, map decks, and encounters. The library is mostly inside while normal Targa is generally not. So the encounters might not fit thematically with each other. Also, gives the two worlds a distinct feel with their own encounters.
Not far off-topic from your comment, but we’re doing a mission right now that’s supposed to be a Spanish Fort mission. But the map in the CoA adventure book has forts on it, including fallen forts. So this mission to find out what happened to a fort they lost contact with felt on theme for our western adventure anyway. Just gotta ignore the palm trees on the entry tile.
But that meant we could take a mission to explore Fort Thomson and find out what happened to it. And use the Spanish Fort tiles as stand-ins. Worked great. And we got ambushed by Hungry Dead twice, then found a room full of Scourge Dead and a portal. We didn’t even pull a card for that portal, we were just like, that’s totally going to Forest of the Dead. Which is where our crew currently is while looking for survivors from the fort.
Just adding a shot of our current party since I finally got them all painted. I’m not particularly good at this aspect of the hobby, but it was fun to do!
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Organizing SoB is very fun and takes a long time. It’s the sub-game that never ends and it MAY be the best part about it. (At least to some.)
I’ve been going back through all of my stuff and working on just about everything ever since this thread started. Will I actually PLAY when I am “done”? I don’t know but that doesn’t really matter.
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No doubt. We actually got into it late in its life. A bit before Gates of Valhalla & Spanish Fort delivered. But we’d had a recent change in the household. So we completely funded buying up someone’s collection by selling euros and competitive stuff that wasn’t going to see the table anymore.
And that collection we got was 99% untouched, so I had months of gluing and organizing and deciding how everything would be contained before we even played the first game. But I’m pretty happy with the setup. We can pull threat cards with enemies from anywhere and I can quickly locate the minis, the enemy’s cards, and any traits/special decks & tokens. But my gaming chair is absolutely surrounded on all sides by boxes of game components. It’s like an SoB command center.
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I’m looking for a map file I can use to replace all of the Hex Crawl overland Map Tiles (The ones for fighting with minis). I want to print out something large and blank that I can randomly populate with my own cover terrain.
Any reccomendations?
Hmm, digital tends to be too problematic for me to consider printing usually. So I stick with Loki, Moonlight Maps, Battle Systems… Or stuff that came with other games, like League of Dungeoneers outdoor grids.
I do have these clear acrylic squares with a grid on them that link together so you can put them over-top of terrain maps and add a grid. With the added bonus of being able to draw on them with dry-erase markers. But there’s stuff like that all over Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/market/dnd_clear_grid Even just big blank grids… There’s one there that’s 35" x 48", opaque, and takes dry-erase markers.
You could also look at places that do free printable graph paper: https://print-graph-paper.com/ And if you want something larger you can cut and connect pages? Or maybe something like that site will do larger prints than 8.5x11?