How the hell do you sort dungeon tiles? Or even tokens?

[Omega Dawn]

Clear plastic sleeves for trading cards or photographs that go in 3-ring binders should work. These come in lots of different sizes.

For example, one designed for baseball cards with 9 sleeves allows to see front and back of small tiles, or double capacity one-sided. The full-page sleeve works for large tiles.

For tokens 10 pages could hold 180. With POG style sleeves you could hold alot more if these are still available.

 

[trumpetkitty]

I've had the same problem. For me, if I can't easily see the tiles, I'm probably not going to remember they exist. I've almost found a decent solution for tiles, still working on the tokens :\

For tiles, I am currently working on making custom slots/pockets from page protectors, so they'll fit the various tile sizes. I'm using this as a guide. Divide Your Page Protectors

I've decided to try to sort my tiles by theme. So far I've got, city(sewers/indoors/cityoutdoors), cave, outdoors(woods/ruins), snow, desert, shadowghast-manor, dungeon, castle, odd-shaped, misc. The smaller tiles (1x1, 2x1) I'm thinking of keeping in bags, separated by the above themes.

As for tokens, I'm still working on a way to easily access them. Right now, they aren't in any useful order (other than grouped by size) in the monster vault box: DnD token box by ~Kinetic-duet on deviantART

 

[Castellanox7]

I've got the dungeon tiles just in their respective boxes. I haven't figured out a way to sort them.

Mob Tokens, however, I have sorted out by "creature type" in plastic baggies. "undead", "uniques" (non numbered tokens), "humanoid", "elemental", "reptiles", "woodland creatures", etc.

 

[Lwaxy]

We have them in handy little wooden boxes with small drawers (from IKEA if you have that). Some of the boxes are labeled, for the most used tiles we know what is what.

As we use lots of tiles, it definitely saves space and prevents us from having to search through piles of shoe boxes and just open a drawer instead. Of course within the drawers we still have to search for the respective tiles we want but that's really quick.

 

[Tony Vargas]

I haven't tried to sort tiles - ours are just in their original boxes. For tokens, I use these little pill bottles that a stack of 'medium' tokens fits in perfectly.

I've seen the plastic 3-ring binder sleeve work very well. The trick is to keep the cardboard sheets the tokens or tiles are punched from, they fit in the sleeve, and you just pull it out, pop out the ones you need, then put them back. The guy that does this has a huge D-ring binder with all the tokens and tiles from all the WotC sets including encounters and Lair Assault - maybe it's two binders. It seems a little tedious, but you can flip through all of them fairly quickly when looking for something specific.

 

[The Little Raven]

Like this guy.

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[Paxter]

Like others have mentioned, I sort them with the Master Sets that came out. As to the tokens, I don't really use them. Most of mine are un-punched in their original sheets. However, some pill separates with the days of the week on top could be used to sort tokens.

I use minis extensively. I have a little three-drawer thingy from Walmart or Michael's or something. I separate them into monstrous humanoids, undead and aberrations, and natural animals and elementals/immortals. Any heroic minis I have are in a plastic bag, and any Large or larger minis are in a small box.

I can't recommend preprinted maps more. I love them. They're detailed and varied, and you can almost always find one to fit your needs. I buy every adventure WotC prints mostly for the maps.

I organize my maps by putting them in binder sleeves. I actually just laid them all out individually and took pictures of them to make a sort of visual index for easy sorting. That way, I can use all the maps and take them with me, by if I wanted to run Gardmore Abbey or the Tomb of Horrors, I can easily find them. It works so awesome!!

I saw Mike Shea from Slyflourish.com made a map index, but it didn't really help me. It did give me the idea to take my own pictures and sort them into sleeves. I love just flipping through the binder and quickly determining which map would be a good fit for this encounter. It takes a little time to process, but it is totally worth it.