Our Gloomhaven storage solution includes support for all editions of this wonderful game and full support for Forgotten Circles components. This storage solution includes thirty (30) trays. All fourteen pounds of this kit will arrive on your doorstep, ready to be assembled filled in order to provide an amazing storage solution for your game!
Our design philosophy for this custom storage solution for Gloomhaven differs from the approach taken by others. While it did increase the cost of the solution over competing options, we engineered the storage solution that we felt the game deserved.
As you know, Gloomhaven includes many small, thin cardboard boxes. These are an amazing touch for an amazing game and are required given how the game exposes more options as you progress; however, if you are willing to spend additional money to buy a storage solution for what is arguably one of the most unique games of the decade, why settle for a wood tray that simply holds cardboard boxes that will wear out over time and through continued use?
This kit includes eighteen (18) character storage trays with lids that store each individual character’s cards, tokens, minis, and character boards. The lid has a small cutout to display the character class symbol. These trays are designed to allow you to store your active cards sleeved, but unused cards are intended to be stored unsleeved. With that said, some of the character classes will allow all cards to be sleeved and stored safely in the trays. There is also room to fold your character sheet and place it in the tray as well.
Note: The Gloomhaven second edition+ minis have wildly varying base sizes, unlike the first edition mini bases, which are all very uniform based on our copies and reports we have received. Some of the second edition mini bases match the sizes of the first edition and some don’t. There is no rhyme or reason. This anomaly appears to be a quality issue.
To account for this, each character tray has two mini cutouts to account for the uniform 25mm base size from first edition and a larger cutout to account for second edition variances. If you have the larger second edition minis, our tray bottoms are designed to allow the base to pass through up to 2mm so that your tray lid will close. The tray lids also have a small cutout to allow for this pass through from other trays. This allows the trays to stack together for storage and allow for the larger second edition bases.
This solution features extensive etching across the various trays to speed your setup and play of the game. This includes the monster trays, the terrain trays, the status tray, the token trays, etc. We have etched pretty much everything in this beauty. If you’ve had the chance to play Gloomhaven, you know how time consuming it can be to try and find that one monster or that specific terrain tile. Now you don’t need to struggle!
In addition to the large amount of etching included to simplify and speed game setup, we have provided lids with many of the trays in this solution. These lids have been designed with multiple contact points to ensure they are simple to operate and yet stay closed under normal handling. No need to worry if your tokens are staying put when transporting your game box.
Our large card tray includes etched dividers for each card type and supports sleeved cards.
Our small card tray includes etched dividers for the various card categories. Due to space constraints, we provide three alphabetically etched dividers for monsters (A-F, G-M, N-Z), so you will need to group your cards together, but it is still very fast to find the card set you need.
Note: this solution does require that you open each character box and character mini box to load the character boxes we provide. Therefore, you will obviously get a glimpse of each mini (and the weakest willed among us might even peek at the cards). If this is a problem, you should consider having a non-Gloomhaven player/spouse/friend fill the character trays for you.
This storage solution provides:
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- Large card tray with etched dividers that stores sleeved or unsleeved cards
- Small card tray with etched dividers that stores sleeved or unsleeved cards
- Eighteen (18) character class storage boxes with lids to store your character cards, character ability cards, character boards, standees, minis, and tokens
- Three (3) monster storage trays with monster name etching to allow you to quickly find the monsters you need
- Etched status token tray with lid for your status tokens with Forgotten Circles support
- Etched token tray and lid for your coins, wounds, and more
- Etched monster stand tray with lid
- Etched summon token tray for summon tokens, tracker tokens
- Two (2) etched terrain storage trays with space to also store bosses
- Etched tray to store monster stat sheets and sleeves.
This solution does not include our GH-002 top tray. The optional top tray creates ~20mm of lid lift.
This solution was designed to store your map tiles, manuals, map board, player counters, and stickers on top of the trays stored inside the box, which will fill your box to the top. If you feel like a top tray is something that your copy of Gloomhaven needs, have a look at our GH-002 top tray.
Rift tokens should be stored in the character box with the Aesther Diviner.
You will not be able to store ~4 standee bases in the standee tray. We suggest you store these in a baggie and use them during setup or just baggie them and keep them with your map tiles. You may not need them ever.
Character Symbols Hack
BGG user @wilbur35 wrote up a little hack he used to affix the character symbols to his character boxes here.
Product Notes
- This insert can store sleeved / unsleeved small and large cards (FFG sleeves, etc.). The oversized monster cards can’t be stored in this solution if sleeved.
- This insert is constructed of HDF (wood product) and is natural colored. HDF does not contain a wood grain as it is a constructed wood product.
- Insert assembly requires some wood glue and about 200 minutes of assembly time. I recommend Sobo Craft glue or another comparable quick setting, tacky glue.
- This product is not officially licensed. All marks are the property of their respective owners.
Version Notes
- v1 – Released Dec 2017, includes 29 trays
- v2 – Released May 11, 2019, includes 30 trays with support added for Forgotten Circles expansion.
Jay G. (verified owner) –
The final product, once assembled, is fantastic. Getting to that point took about 6 hours of glue-up, not for the faint of heart. I had to use a rubber mallet for quite a few pieces and, once, I had to pry it back apart and re-glue since I had put one piece the wrong way round. A few pieces had difficulty coming out of their laser cut partitions, but overall everything had a clean cut.
The lids fit very tight. I had to sand them down to loosen them up a bit. Except the standee lid, which doesn’t seem to want to stay on.
The biggest troubles I had were (1) only one page of instructions specified the sheet numbers, which made it difficult to identify all of the pieces; and (2) the instructions did not provide any guidance to what pieces go where in the boxes and only minimal guidance on how to shove it all into the box. Since I have not played through all of my Gloomhaven campaigns, I don’t know the name for every monster yet! As a result, I had to look up a guide to everythings names — which oddly doesn’t match every name burnt onto the boxes as there are several slight variations. Finally, one piece from forgotten circles – the whirlpool like pieces – don’t seem to have any place to be placed within the kit.
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James W. (verified owner) –
Great organizer. so far very happy with it. It was very fun for me to build, as it gave me an excuse to bust out my modeling tools from architecture school. This thing is super sturdy, and commensurately heavy! It works really well for setup and tear down. Everything fits in the box really nicely and there’s enough extra space that it isn’t a pain to get things in and out. There was clearly a lot of care taken to ensure everything lays flat and flush.
A few minor things kept me from giving it 5 stars (these are all admittedly nitpicky!). The instructions have a few things that could be more clear, particularly numbering the sheets used on every page. This stops after the first few and results in having to compare the sheets to the images, rather than just looking for the correct number. A few of the lids are maybe a bit too precise, with too many elements needing to line up just right. This makes them tough to get on/off, though I expect this will become less of an issue with use. I also wish the character trays used the same style of lid as the other elements, rather than toothing in so much. It’s just an odd choice to change the design of the elements like that, and again relies on a much more precise build (and cut for that matter). I also wish they’d thought through orientation a bit more for some of the pieces so the burning could be kept to the inside of the elements as much as possible; the bottom of the sheets typically has more scorching on it than the top, and sometimes there’s no choice but to have the worse looking face on the outside of the box. I sleeve with sleevkings and I wish the small card tray was just a tiny bit wider as there’s just barely enough space to get them into the rows. They do fit without bending the cards though. It’s just a little finicky when getting the cards into the tray, especially when you’re trying to put larger stacks away. Lastly, I wish they’d scored the sides of character trays, so you could organize them and tell what is what without having to pull them out to check the symbol.
Again, these are all very minor critiques and don’t significantly impact the function of the organizer (in fact most have no real impact at all, just minor design items). I highly recommend this organizer, and will definitely be getting whatever they develop for Frosthaven at the very least.
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