Root Insert / Organizer - All Expansions Through Homeland (Minus Clockwork)

This is an insert / organizer for Root. It supports all expansions released through Homeland (minus the Clockwork expansions), plus the deluxe clearing and deluxe frog clearing markers (see the detailed list below under “Which Content Fits?”). It supports premium sleeves (Dragon Shield clear matte shown on most cards in the photos), vertical storage, has no lid lift, and was designed to aid setup and teardown. There appear to be different sizes of boxes and different meeple thicknesses throughout the world. This insert is designed for boxes with an internal footprint of about 280 mm x 213 mm and a meeple thickness of just under 10 mm, such as those produced by Leder Games for sale in the United States.

A more detailed breakdown is below, but in general the base game box holds all the factions, the hirelings box holds the hirelings, and one of the expansion boxes holds the remaining cards and setup components. The faction boards and game boards each reside in additional expansion boxes. Does that make this a five-box storage solution? Yes it does, if you have all the competitive content released to date. Am I crazy? I think we all know the answer to this by now.

Here is a video overview, followed by a text overview of each box.

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Labeled trays for each faction that hold the faction meeples, cards in premium sleeves, and cardboard components.

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Each tray generally has a slot for the cards, a trough where you can toss the meeples, and a slot where the round cardboard components are placed toward the bottom and the square cardboard components are placed toward the top.

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The cardboard component slot is sized to hold the exact number of round and square components needed to play the game, without holding any of the duplicates that Leder Games has provided in various expansions (but see the notes about the Vagabond tray below). The duplicate components are stored in a different portion of the insert.

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Leder Games slightly changed the size of the cardboard components between printings. The slots are sized to support both the larger and smaller versions of those components, but you may notice some variation if you bought you components over time.

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The Lilypad Diaspora is split across two trays. One holds the pond, frog cards, and frog meeples. This is a setup tray that can go back in the box. The other tray holds the enclave tokens and the deluxe frog clearing markers. This tray can be placed on the table for use throughout the game.

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The Vagabond tray holds the Vagabond cards and meeples, including from the Vagabond pack. There are two slots for holding square cardboard components. One holds the association markers. Leder included some duplicates of these markers in various expansions, but the duplicates are stored elsewhere. The second slot holds all the satchel items and two victory point markers. In Homeland, Leder provided enough additional items to support playing two separate games with Vagabonds, and this tray holds all the duplicate satchel items instead of splitting them out elsewhere.

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There are two rows of trays. To make it easier to identify which trays belong in each row, there is a single dot on the edge of some trays, and two dots on the edge of other trays. Place all trays with a single dot in one row and all trays with two dots in a second row. This will ensure that all the trays fit properly in the box.

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Dedicated holders for the main card decks (base, Exiles, and Squires), with room to add frog cards when playing with the Lilypad Diaspora.

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A smaller item tray holds all the items in the order shown on the game boards. I also added slots on each side to hold the reminder tokens. This tray generally fits over the designated item areas on the game boards.

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A larger item tray holds the smaller item tray plus additional items and ruins. Because different items can be needed based on different setup conditions, the items are sorted by type to make them easy to find.

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Two card rails. These replace the card rail that comes with the Riverfolk expansion. They are longer, so they hold more cards, and the slot is positioned to make them more stable than the design on the stock Leder rail. If you have extra card rails from the original KS version of Root, you will need to store those elsewhere (such as with the faction boards). I provided two rails here to show the card offer from the Riverfolk Company and to hold the cards for the Mechanical Marquise, if you are using that portion of the Riverfolk expansion.

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A dedicated landmark tray to hold the landmark and related cards, plus some map-specific tokens like the raft.

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A tray for the deluxe resin clearing markers.

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A tray for the battle dice, advanced setup cards, and slots for spare tokens. This is where you can store your remaining duplicate round and square cardboard tokens.

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A map setup tray to hold the remaining map-specific setup items, such as the blocked path markers, flooded zone markers, and cardboard resin clearing tokens. This tray also holds the scenario tokens and has room for additional miscellaneous component storage.

Four trays to hold the hirelings, cards, and related components. There’s no need to get out this box if you are not playing with the hirelings. You can place the hirelings in any order you’d like, but the wells on the trays have been sized to separate the components as listed below and shown in the photos.

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Hireling cards in premium sleeves, end-of-turn markers, control dice, a small tray that can be placed on or near the board to hold control tokens, the Vault Keepers, and the Spring Uprising with their uprising die

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The Exile and club tokens, Sunny Advocates, Furious Protector, Corvid Spies, Riverfolk Flotilla, and Warm Sun Prophets

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Sunward Expedition and foothold tokens, River Roamers and lily pad tokens, Flame Bearers, and Popular Band

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Last Dynasty, Forest Patrol, Prosperous Farmers and farm tokens, and Highway Bandits

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The three game boards fit in one expansion box. If you use the playmats instead, there’s no need to keep this box on your shelf.

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The cardboard and cardstock faction boards fit in another expansion box. A word of warning, however, is that the cardstock factions are a little bit oversized for the bottom of an expansion box. They easily get stuck, so you might want to set them on top of the cardboard factions in the box to place them close to the top of the box, where the box opening gets a bit larger.

This insert holds the following:

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Base game

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Riverfolk expansion

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Underworld expansion

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Marauder expansion

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Homeland expansion

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All hirelings packs and the box

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Vagabond pack

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Landmarks pack

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Exiles & Partisans deck

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Squires & Disciples deck

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Deluxe clearing markers

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Deluxe frog clearing markers

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Regular and/or cardstock faction boards

To achieve the insert as shown, print each tray the number of times specified in the file name (e.g., print three of the large card deck trays and two of card rails) and one of everything else. The photos and video show how to layer everything in the box.

I have included the original OpenSCAD files in case anyone wants to improve on the design for non-commercial purposes. However, if you remix a portion, please post only the remixed portion and point back to my listing here for everything else.