Custom stationery is always a bit of a statement. Businesses have died or thrived on the quality of their business cards after all, and more than one battle has been fought over a red stapler. Fans of tabletop roleplaying games, especially old-school gamers, know all too well how important it is to have all your pencils at the ready and your notebooks, pencils and dice organised.
The Dungeons & Dragons Mimic Treasure Chest Notebook Set is the sort of quirky stationary choice for the sort of person who absolutely needs the right tools for the job but also wants to look cool doing so. This is a small box with five 4 x 6-inch blank notebooks inside, plus a little ‘tuck box’ space to store dice or some small pencils. It’s essentially a novelty gift for fans of TTRPGs, specifically D&D.
Of course, this makes it compatible with every edition out there because it’s just stationary, and there’s not a single version of D&D that doesn’t require something to take notes, and the various Dungeon Masters who lurk within STARBURST’S Secret Gaming Thunder Dome all agree that you should take notes and draw maps, even if the entire adventure just takes place in a tavern.
The box itself is quite nice and very sturdy. It’s obviously intended to be a mimic, those treasure chest-shaped monsters that exist to lure in the unwary. You’ll need to peel off the ‘lock’ label to open it, and this does not re-attach. In a nice touch, when you peel off the ‘barcode and sales’ sticker in the back, we find a fun depiction of what happened to the mimic’s last victim.
Inside, we get a little ‘tuck box’, which is illustrated to look like a mimic’s tongue. It’s specifically here to be open and used to protect your dice, etc.
The main event is the five notepads; the first two, labelled Owlbear and Lich, are lined notepads. The third, Displacer Beast, has dotted grids, and the last two, Black Dragon and Beholder, have lined grids. Each notepad is illustrated with the relevant monster, the images taken from other D&D books.
These are enough supplies for several campaigns, and the box looks sturdy enough to survive bouncing around in your bag of holding for a few years of play.
A fun, useful novelty item.
