D&D Accessories: Keep Your Adventuring Space Organized
Your adventures and players’ antics may be messy, but that doesn’t mean your gaming table has to be anything less than beautifully organized.
This time of year is too busy to be disorganized. And that includes the D&D table. Your adventures may be a hot mess, but there’s no reason your table should be. These accessories will make sure your game session keeps running as smoothly as possible and nobody has an excuse to say, “Where am I again?”
1. Hex Battle Grids
Dungeons and Dragons is primarily a theater of the mind sort f game. But sometimes a battle grid can help you understand exactly what’s going on a little better. And for classes like Monk where zipping around is an important part of their entire game, battle grids can be one of the most valuable organizational tools to keep at your table.
This particular battle grid comes in square and hex, is foldable, and plays nice with dry-erase markers. Move your characters around, draw in any important terrain or take notes, and clean the whole thing up before your next session.
2. Spell Effect Spacer
How far does that spell reach? What does a ten-foot radius look like? How much bigger is a thirty-foot cone than a fifteen? These are some pretty important questions for anyone at your table using spells or having spells used against them. And with this handy all-in-one tool, you’ll never have to figure it out on the fly ever again. All spell cubes, spheres, and cones are in this one see-through template. And with a standard battle grid sizing, this will work and be easy to read with any grid you’ll have at your table.
3. Sword Initiate Tracker
Keeping track of initiative can be a pain. The DM probably has it written on a notepad somewhere, but it’s helpful for the whole table when imitative order can be seen somewhere central by all. This acrylic sword allows the DM to write up to twelve characters’ turn order someplace tall and elevated so the entire table can see it and nobody can act surprised by their turn coming around again. Prepare your moves, people! You know when you’re up!
4. Condition Marker Rings
Sometime a player accidentally forgets that their character has a condition. Sometimes they do it on purpose. Either way, condition rings are a great way to remind everybody at the table then somebody is stunned or poisoned. The rings simply fit around the minis and are brightly colored so nobody can claim not to know. And once the condition is lifted, just remove the ring and throw it back in your DMing pack for next time.
5. Spell Slot Tracker
For many of D&D’s classes, keeping track of your spell slots is of the utmost importance. And if you’re working solely with a character sheet, updating your remaining spell slots in real time means a lot of erasing and re-writing… Which no piece of paper will put up with forever. This tracker will make it easy with no muss, fuss, or eraser smudges on your character sheet.
Simply turn a sandard D6 to your current spell slot number and keep cranking down as you make more magic. Where will you get all of those D6? Let’s be honest, you’ve got a big bag of loose dice somewhere; this is their moment.
What are your favorite ways to keep your D&D sessions organized? Will any of these tools make it onto your D&D wish list? Do you know any disorganized players who may need one or two of these items? Let us know in the comments!
Happy adventuring!
