Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Ultimate GM kit

A shipment from Amazon arrived today, and I'm now pretty much done with my GM kit. Here it is, in all of it's "glory":

The backbone of the kit is the canvas vintage backpack, obviously. Everything else goes in there. Behind and to the right is my GM screen. I still need to print out my inserts, but that'll only take me a few minutes. In front of the GM screen is my metal dice bag. The bag is lambskin, of course, but all of the dice within it are metal dice sets, in velvet cloth bags in which they came, so they don't bang against each other too much and get nicked and scratched. Next to the black leather metal dice bag is my blutooth speaker, which I can now take and play some music at my session. The brown leather bag next to that is of metal pirate coins, which I use as tokens for Heroism Points. In front of that is a pleather fancy pencil case, with several mechanical pencils, nice erasers and extra led tubes. You can also see the little wood and brass dice cup with a lid, my home made dice tray (sadly, the pleather insert is a little bit bubbled; I didn't do a good enough job gluing and weighing down the liner. You'll also see in front of the dice tray my other dice sets in their various bags (three of which are leather, one is pleather.) I have one more dice bag where I have a bunch of mismatched dice and some cheaper plastic coins, but I probably won't take that with me. Finally, the blue book is one of my my leather bound journals, where I can take notes on the campaign.

Also not shown are the little leather journals that I have that my players could use to take their own notes in, or a wooden mug or cup that I'd drink out of for more flavor (both literally and figuratively) and a printout of my game in a folder—because, again, I haven't taken my pdf file up to the other computer where the printer is (the wireless on that printer never seemed to work, and I didn't care enough to figure it out. We print things so rarely.)

I could always get rid of most of those dice. I have may more than I need, obviously. But I like them, and I may want to let my players borrow a set if I'm playing with people who may not have their own dice (or who may have forgotten them.)

UPDATE: I'll probably rip out the lining of my dice tray and replace it with some adhesive-backed upholstery PU leather, or something like that. Or maybe I'll just try spray adhesive and reglue the existing pleather. I'll need some new blades for my hobby knife, though, to make sure I get a good trim to the correct size to fit well. That's part of the problem too; cutting it with scissors just didn't really do the trick.

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