Travelling DMs: What do you tote your game in?

[DaveStebbins]

Hey, with some magic brownies, that drive will just FLY by...

What makes the long drives FLY by is audiobooks!

 

[Rel]

What makes the long drives FLY by is audiobooks!

I was figuring on bugging Cthulhu's Librarian for the whole drive:

"Are you awake?"

"I'm trying to sleep!"

"Ok...what about now?"

"STILL TRYING!"

"Ok...Boy, this drive is just flying by, isn't it?"

"SHUT the ^##@# UP!"

 

[PieAndDragon]

I walk with:

- Rucksack with core rules books, monster books, dice, paper and house rules binders
- Tube containing rolled up battlemat [34" x 48"]
- Miniatures box, with around 300 plastic miniatures

Used to have lead miniatures, before the D&D ones came out.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

What makes the long drives FLY by is audiobooks!

I take along a stack of CDs.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I was figuring on bugging Cthulhu's Librarian for the whole drive:

"Are you awake?"

"I'm trying to sleep!"

"Ok...what about now?"

"STILL TRYING!"

"Ok...Boy, this drive is just flying by, isn't it?"

"SHUT the ^##@# UP!"

Better yet.... "arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyearewethereyet?t?arewetarewethereyet?hereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?arewethereyet?...." the whole trip.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

I have the pleasure of playing in my own home for my home-brew games. Which is good. For my airships Free Trade Cities game the free paper alone (character sheets, supplemental sheets, spell crib sheets, ship record, crew record, etc) are nearly an inch thick.

For my traveling games, I keep it to pure D&D. We play at a college game club and I specifically limit characters to the Core. I don't like balancing stuff and I hate rules bloat. It also allows me to bring just a laptop and tact-tiles in my laptop tote. I have an S-Video cord and the room we play in has a projector that I can connect it to that allows me to not "copy" my desktop to a projection but EXTEND my desktop to the projection. That is very useful. I can have all of my DM-Only stuff on the screen (DMGenie, notes, etc) and I can drag maps, pictures, notes, etc out into the view of the players on the projector. Between DMGenie and the SRD, I don't bother taking any books like PHBs or DMGs with me. If there's anything people need, somebody else usually has that kind of stuff anyway.

--fje

 

[Syntallah]

I walk with:

- Rucksack with core rules books, monster books, dice, paper and house rules binders
- Tube containing rolled up battlemat [34" x 48"]
- Miniatures box, with around 300 plastic miniatures

Used to have lead miniatures, before the D&D ones came out.

What do you use for a "miniatures box"? I've tried to find something decent to carry mine in, but have been unsuccessfull.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

What do you use for a "miniatures box"? I've tried to find something decent to carry mine in, but have been unsuccessfull.

There are some designed specifically for minis. Includes cut out foam padding. They cost a bit tho.

I use a compartmented box I got at the local Dollar Tree store for a buck for my metal minis. I padded the metal, multi-piece ones with the foam filler from the package the mini came in (the WOTC metal 3e minis from around 2000 or so).

 

[TGryph]

My situation

Hello!

I have a similar situation...I am a Gurps GM who often has to carry 4-5 hardcover books, a 3 ring notebook, plus a sundry list of pens, notecards, dice etc. In addition, I like to take maybe a dozen or so miniatures, and a battlemat to my sessions with me.

Well apparantly just this evening my wife's little dog decided my briefcase was too tempting to pass up, and chewed it up. So rather than buy another cheap briefcase, does anyone have any better ideas?

One more thing...more often than not I have to transport these items on my motorcycle to out gaming site. I have a hard plastic document carrier for the battlemat, so anything else will either have to fiit in the saddlebags, or else bungee to the back, like my old briefcase did.

I am willing to spend a little cash if I have to. Any ideas are appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

TGryph

 

[Torm]

So rather than buy another cheap briefcase, does anyone have any better ideas?

Hey, TGryph! Long time, no see.

Not sure about what you should get to replace it - but it sounds like you might want to pick up a can of dog repellant spray (they usually sell animal-safe ones at reputable pet shops) and maybe hit whatever you get to replace the briefcase with it every now and then. Some of them even smell nice - they keep dogs and cats away because their sense of smell is so much stronger. Like lemon juice - smells good, but imagine putting some IN your nose.