Rapid Inventory Index Card

Take Stock of Your Grimoire Contents Efficiently

Rapid Inventory Index Card & Methodology

by LivFreeOrPie

I've found myself taking out and putting away my Grimoire a bunch, so I created an index card that helps me take inventory of my Grimoire quickly and thoroughly without getting a script out and going character-for-character, reminder-for-reminder.

Part 1 - Preparation

It's important to know the following tools features that can help you when you're taking inventory of your tokens.

Token Boxes

You will be using all four base set boxes, and three unmarked boxes from The Carousel.

Each box has four large ports labeled "Townsfolk, Outsider, Minion, Demon" and two small ports names "Good Reminders" and "Evil Reminders."

the first 5 boxes will be the "home boxes" of the Base 3 and The Carousel.

The "6th" box from The Carousel can be used as a "preload" box to prepare a script before you arrive at the venue.

See the picture above for a visual demonstration of this sorting method. the 6th box is staging the script Contempt from The Carousel Script Collection.

Token Pips

Each each token has a series of pips/dots that tells you which box holds your tokens:

Trouble Brewing - 1 pip
Bad Moon Rising - 2 pips
Sects & Violence - 3 pips
Travelers & Fabled - no pips
The Carousel - 4 pips (includes TC Travelers & Fabled)

Character Token Leaves

Each character token has four locations with leaves:

Reminder tokens - 0-7 leaves at the top (12:00 clock position)
First night action - 0-1 leaf on the left side (9:00 clock position)
Subsequent night actions - 0-1 leaf on the right side (3:00 position)
Setup alteration - 0-1 orange leaf on the bottom right (4:30 position)

For inventory sorting, we'll only be using the reminder token leaves at the top of the token.

Part 2 - Complete Sort: "A Place for Every Token"

By using the provided labels, and some of our own intuition, we can make a "home" for each town inside of the four provided boxes, and two additional boxes if sorting with The Carousel.

Base 3 Script Boxes x3

Trouble Brewing
GR | To | O | Mi | De | ER
13 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3
(4x Imp tokens)

Bad Moon Rising
GR | To | O | Mi | De | ER
25 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17

Sects & Violence
GR | To | O | Mi | De | ER
21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16
(2x Fang Gu Tokens)

Travelers & Fabled Box

Disregard the labels in the Travelers & Fabled box and use this system:

DV | PLT | Tr/TrLT | Tr | Fa | Tr+Fa R
20 | 15 | 5/5 | 10 | 12 | 14/11
- 20x dead votes tokens in the 1st small port
- 15x standard white player life tokens in the 1st large port
- 5x TB Travelers and the 5x Traveler life tokens in 2nd large port
- 10x BMR & SNV Traveler character tokens in the 3rd large port
- 12x Fabled character tokens in the 4th large port
- 25 (14/11) Traveler and Fabled reminder tokens in the 2nd small port

Separating the Traveler life tokens from the bunch and grouping them with TB Travelers was an excellent idea I adopted from the Off Meta Grim Organizing YouTube video.

The Carousel Expansion Boxes x2

All of the printed tokens from The Carousel Expansion fit in two of the enclosed token boxes. Disregard the labels in the boxes and make a "good box" and a "evil box" and separate the tokens by type.

TR | T1 | T2 | T3 | O | OR
31 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 10
- Turn some good reminders sideways to fit them all into the "TR" port.

MiR | Mi | De1 | De2 | TrFa + TrFaR | DeR
20 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 6/4 | 14
- Put the 6 Traveler & Fabled character tokens and their 4 reminder tokens all in the 4th large port to keep the reminder separated from the Demon reminders.
- Legion's 12 tokens get their own large port.

Part 3 - Removal & Rapid Replacement Count

Now that each token has a place "home," when you go to pull tokens out for a custom script, take each token from it's home port and leave the rest in their place.

As soon as you are ready to pack up, sort the tokens by their pips and then return them to their boxes in the proper ports.

Before closing each box, do a hand count of each port and make sure it matches the number index card.

If all of your count checks out, your rapid inventory is a success and you have all of your tokens. Every token made it "home."

As you count each box, "clear it" by putting the lid on.

Part 4 - Handling Exceptions to the Count

If the rapid count is off, then some tokens have been misplaced. Search the Grimoire and the other boxes and your surroundings for your missing tokens.

Upside-down tokens in the Grimoire (black felt on black felt) are especially easy to miss.

When counting reminder tokens, it's helpful to lay out the character tokens and stack their associated reminder token on top.

Source file: Grimoire Inventory Source - TC.ods
Source file: Grimoire Inventory Index Card - TC.odg
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