Fighting (or at least interacting with) monsters is an integral part of table top roleplaying games. The biggest RPG is called Dungeons and Dragons after all, you should expect that big monsters to feature heavily.
However, sometimes the imagination just isn’t enough to convey the situation; maybe the fight takes place on a moving arena or in a tight corridor and you just need to know exactly where all the goblins are so you can catch them with a well-placed fireball. One solution to this is miniatures, however if you’re popping over to someone’s house to run a game D&D , you might not want to lug a box of expensive models around. Wizards of The Coast’s Campaign Case: Creatures solved the issue in a novel way.
This is a set of 64 plastic tokens in various sizes, in red, blue, black and white colours. The case also comes with cardboard folder crammed with ‘static cling’ stickers. The idea is that you put your monsters on the poker-chip like tokens and you’ve got the pieces you need to play a strategic fantasy game. They are 159 clings in total, include elves, kobolds, goblins, beholders and of course dragons. The plastic stickers slide on and peel off easily enough, but there’s enough ‘cling’ in them for many, many uses. They are a fairly robust though regular use means they tend to clump together a bit often.
Clings also come for character types, though obviously not every type is catered for in this set. One bonus is reaching over to move the plastic pucks does make you feel like you’re in an old-timey war movie.
The case comes with a solidly constructed cardboard carry case, with one level for the clings and below that we get two plastic storage boxes for the actual tokens. The box has a thick rope-like handle and the whole thing is charmingly covered in D&D logos. There’s a handy ribbon to pull the top tray from the bottom tray. It’s well made, but it is cardboard.
This is a useful tool, though of course it requires some sort of battle map to work (the range also has a terrain box).
It is much, much more useful than it looks at first glance and this a solid addition to a Dungeon Master’s arsenal.
