Sweet! I'm either going to get this or 'quik cart xtra' on amazon; not sure yet. Thanks for the link, Asmor!
Travelling Game Bag Recommendations?
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Monte At Home
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I got a Bag of Holding from ThinkGeek for Christmas and it's pretty awesome.
ThinkGeek :: The Bag of Holding Messenger Bag
ThinkGeek :: The Bag of Holding Messenger Bag
Mark
CreativeMountainGames.com
Pretty nice but that might benefit from a new strap or at least a shoulder strap pad, no?
Pad Shoulder Strap
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dvvega
Explorer
The folding crate carry looks great and is great at the start but continuous use and it breaks ... both my wife and I used them for various things: I for RPG and carrying my RPG stuff around, she for Primary School to save her back when she had to tote arts and craft etc. around.
After roughly 6 months they both show signs of heavy wear then suddenly mine gave out (one side detached in one corner) it was unsalvageable. A couple of months later hers gave out. I used mine A LOT (every Friday lots of gear - books, battle mats, atmosphere items, paper, pencils, minis, etc).
I currently play at home (lucky me) however one of the alternate DMs uses a travel bag, the kind with a trolley to carry all of his books ... seems to have held up for more than a year now. And it doubles as a travel bag
I have a large collection of bags - okay so it might be an addiction But the ones I recommend are:
* a light canvas messenger bag for just a PHB, Relevant Splat Books, character sheet, dice, pencils etc if I am playing.
* a Crumpler (tm) messenger for heavy duty lugging around (17" laptop). They have heaps of bags, heavy duty canvas, some are slash resistant. I've had mine for 7 years and nary any damage.
One thing to note that although I don't like the pricing, having the PDF of a book is a deity send if it is fully indexed and searchable. A single laptop is better than a lot of books. You can run a number of character sheet applications (or a text file) for your character, you can search your documents (pre-opened at home for speed), you can have downloaded utilities for everything. This would reduce your carrying requirements for books at least to a small footprint.
Which reminds me: whatever happened to the small price for PDFs 4th edition if you have a copy of the book?
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After roughly 6 months they both show signs of heavy wear then suddenly mine gave out (one side detached in one corner) it was unsalvageable. A couple of months later hers gave out. I used mine A LOT (every Friday lots of gear - books, battle mats, atmosphere items, paper, pencils, minis, etc).
I currently play at home (lucky me) however one of the alternate DMs uses a travel bag, the kind with a trolley to carry all of his books ... seems to have held up for more than a year now. And it doubles as a travel bag
I have a large collection of bags - okay so it might be an addiction
But the ones I recommend are: * a light canvas messenger bag for just a PHB, Relevant Splat Books, character sheet, dice, pencils etc if I am playing.
* a Crumpler (tm) messenger for heavy duty lugging around (17" laptop). They have heaps of bags, heavy duty canvas, some are slash resistant. I've had mine for 7 years and nary any damage.
One thing to note that although I don't like the pricing, having the PDF of a book is a deity send if it is fully indexed and searchable. A single laptop is better than a lot of books. You can run a number of character sheet applications (or a text file) for your character, you can search your documents (pre-opened at home for speed), you can have downloaded utilities for everything. This would reduce your carrying requirements for books at least to a small footprint.
Which reminds me: whatever happened to the small price for PDFs 4th edition if you have a copy of the book?
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Asmor
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I'm curious what brand you use, and if there were any extenuating circumstances.
I've been using mine for well over a year and it's still quite sturdy. I'm not very gentle with it, either. I frequently overstuff it and the little bits that are meant to keep the folding sides rigid were lost a long time ago.
I sometimes worry about it falling apart, but for its part it's no worse for the wear.
dvvega
Explorer
@Asmor: I think it was because i stuffed it and forced the sides to bulge out a lot. I cannot remember the brand but my wife bought a pair of them as a surprise since she knew how much work I put into my campaigns and sessions and wanted me to be able to carry everything easily. She played in the game too so I guess she wanted a good experience as well - hang on! She did it for her selfish reasons! damn her!
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JiffyPopTart
Bree-Yark
I tend to just leave most of my stuff at the gaming table waiting for next week, with the exception of the PHB, the AV, and my current character that I tuck away in a backpack.
The rest of the stuff (dice, power cards, pencils, etc) isn't needed until the next week anyway.
Of course, our group has a dedicated game room we play in and can leave everything as-is in between sessions.
DS
The rest of the stuff (dice, power cards, pencils, etc) isn't needed until the next week anyway.
Of course, our group has a dedicated game room we play in and can leave everything as-is in between sessions.
DS
