Tabletop Token Tower

The Tabletop Token Tower is the answer to your fallen over stacks of board game piece frustrations. In general, when playing board games, we would just have stacks of tokens or pieces beside us. However, that gets a bit messy and chaotic, especially with pets around or kids.

I designed this to be able to customize to your exact playing experience. There are 3 tiers with 5 different slot layout bins, 2 different sizes and a version of each bin is designed for each tier. This makes for an incredibly flexible setup. One setup will be perfect for one board game but wont work for another, so you can redesign the perfect layout depending on the situation.

• Are there 6 different flat small tokens you need to organize? There is a 6 slot shallow bin.

• Do you have a ton of small red tokens you need to store? There is a single slot deep bin.

   

The tower utilizes different girths across the length. So the bottom bin will have a wider opening, the middle bin will have a thinner opening, and the top bin will have the smallest. So the smallest can not be put in the bottom location, and the biggest bin will fall straight to the bottom, allowing all the bins to go where they are meant to.

To have the highest possibility of customization, there are versions of each bin layout and size for each tier. For example, the 1 slot deep bin has been designed for the top tier, middle tier, and bottom tier positions. This makes for an exhaustive possible 30 different bins. 5 shallow, 5 deep in each layout.

(Of course, this doesn't mean all 30 need to be printed out in order to use this to its full potential. I would recommend on board game night, pull out your board game of choice earlier on in the day, see how many pieces and tokens are in need of organization and structuring, figure out the ideal layout and see if what you have already printed out improves your experience, and if not, figure out how many slots are needed, what size of bin is needed for what, and get that printing before its game time!)

In order to get this up and running, you must print out the Tower and Tip, one bottom bin of your choice, one middle bin, and one top bin. 

This is great for all board games which heavily utilize tokens or pieces, so it won't be limited to a specific use case.

You will find in one slot of each bin, either a "Top", "Mid", or "Bot". No we aren't calling our roll in league of legends in 2012, these are to help identify each bins intended locations. There is also some wiggle room in each tier for the designated bins to rotate with ease if that is something you are interested in. 

Sleeping Gods has dozens of unique tokens to be organized, so I have positioned each tier to help structure the game. 

My layout for Sleeping Gods is as follows

• Bottom tier — 4 slot deep bin: Housing the very many blue command tokens, the red damage tokens, the gold pieces, and the fatigue tokens. The deep bins chosen due to the sheer quantity of them.
• Middle tier — 5 slot shallow bin: Housing the venom, madness, frightened, weakened, and low morale tokens. The shallow bin being chosen due to the flat easily hidden nature of the status tokens, so they remain easy to pick out.
• Top tier — 6 slot shallow bin: Housing the resource tokens, meat, vegetables, grain, materials, artifacts, and the ship damage tokens. The shallow bin being chosen due to there being few of each resource token while being flat, makes it easy within reach.

This tower really helps structure many games in this way. In this example for Sleeping Gods, the top tier is for pieces generally related to the search token event. The middle tier is heavily structured for combat, and the bottom is structured toward combat and turn phase.

How about a board game that doesn't have various styles of tokens or pieces, but you'd still like to organize the 3 or 4 that came along with it? The bins can of course be utilized as stand alone organizers for the smaller or simpler board games. Just to keep them out of the plastic bags but within reach when needed. Once printed, the bins aren't useless if you've opted for a different layout for that board game, there are always instances where its nice to keep some loose pieces in order.

The tower is also designed with ample room between tiers, so you don't have to worry about bumping the bin in the tier above where you are reaching with your hand.

The tower is designed in several pieces which thread into one another. Once threaded in place, you have done all the assembly needed in order to get the tower working as designed.

I am more than happy to look into more layouts and sizes if requested. Please leave a comment with recommendations or criticisms and pictures of your completed models!