Monday, June 4, 2018

Pathfinder Map Pack Storage Box [RPG]

The Map Pack Storage Box is one of those products that will seem ridiculous to a lot of people, but, for collectors like me, they're great!  The reason for the product's existence is that many of the earlier Pathfinder Map Packs just came shrink-wrapped--which is fine when front-facing on a store's display racks, but problematic once opened: how do you keep them together and how do you display them so you know what you have at a glance at your shelves?  The Map Pack Storage Boxes are solutions for this problem and are similar to the cardboard boxes used in later Map Packs.  Basically, each box is *just* big enough to hold the 18 tiles in a standard map pack.  There's attractive artwork on the front and room on both the front and "spine" to write the name of the map pack for easy sorting.  I've purchased several to help display my collection of older map packs, and I think they work well.  I have noted some discussion on the Paizo forums that not every map pack fits nicely into the box; I haven't had any problems, but it's worth flagging just in case.  So, from one perspective spending $ 2.99 for a single empty cardboard box barely bigger than a slim paperback novel is silly; but from the collector's perspective, it's a small price to pay!

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