Storage/display trays for Gloomhaven 2e monsters

Trays to hold your Gloomhaven enemies (2nd edition)

Together, these two trays hold all the standees for the normal and elite monsters that come with Gloomhaven 2nd edition (https://cephalofair.com/pages/gloomhaven). Each group of monsters has its own niche or niches, and all niches are sized to fit the monsters' outlines. Each niche has a finger hole so you can easily extract the monsters. The PDF tray.pdf shows which standees go in which niches.

Each niche is sized to hold exactly four, five, or six standees, depending on the number of standees. (A monster that has ten standees is stored in two niches of five each.) If you lose track of a monster or try to put one in the wrong niche, it will be obvious immediately. Only normal and elite standees have dedicated niches; boss standees are not supported.

Splitting each set of ten into two sets of five makes the trays take up a little more area, but it also makes them much lighter and thinner—a worthy tradeoff.  Which you'll see if you come with my Frosthaven storage boxes (https://www.printables.com/model/425943).

The trays themselves fit neatly into the Gloomhaven box—they are designed to fit on top of the character tuck boxes. Depending on what else you are storing where, you may find it easier to put one or both on top of the flowcharts.

Monster Grouping

When you look at the trays, you can see all the monsters, so you can easily

find the ones you are looking for. The monsters are grouped thematically: Water Hazards, Mountains, Dagger Forest, Annoyances, City, Bandit Crypts, Demons, and Heavyweights.

Transparent covers

Each tray supports a transparent cover that retains the standees while displaying them. The cover fits into a retaining lip on three sides, forming a sliding dovetail. The lip is printed 3mm high with 2mm of overhand, so at about 56 degrees. I made my covers from 3mm acrylic ("Plexiglas"), and I cut angles on edges with a block plane. If you don't have access to a block plane, edges could probably be sanded at an angle—but it would be a tedious job. If you have access to a laser cutter, vector outlines for the covers can be found in file lids.pdf These outlines are meant to be trimmed with a block plane, so they are oversize.

Printing and modeling

The trays are modeled with "mouse ears" at the corners. These features prevent warping and use filament more efficiently than a full brim. The models have no need of a brim or a raft. In order to make the second tray printable on a Prusa i3 MK4, I've broken it into two pieces. The pieces should be glued together using the pins provided.

The models were created with OpenSCAD. The monster outlines were machine-generated from photographs of the standees. AI was used to write scripts that translate the outlines from GeoJSON format into TikZ and OpenSCAD formats.