Stream of consciousness musings:
Quality of life improvements mainly. Most baggies tend to hold tokens quite flat, so unless the bag is much larger, you can’t really jumble the tokens in the bag very well. And cloth is softer on the hands obviously! Another bonus is cloth bags are more flexible, so much easier to fit a lot of stuff in a box. Especially useful for the massive huge big pyramid bag.
For set up randomisation it’s somewhat arbitrary though. Doesn’t need to be truly random. But it is an improvement
Some games I use baggies, some I use inserts, some I use drawstring bags. There’s pros and cons.
I like how coloured drawstring bags make it really easy to know what goes where when packing away the game. So often I pack baggies and get the bag sizes wrong and need to switch around components or am mysteriously one bag short (not an issue for Teoti when most the tokens are left in the bag). Packing all a player’s stuff together in a coloured bag is just nice! And they just look a lot more upmarket than baggies.
Generally it’s drawstring bag Vs insert, rather than drawstring Vs baggies. Inserts are a more comparable cost, if I’m being cost efficient it’s baggies every time unless it offers a true functional advantage.
For a few games it makes set up a doddle. Roll for the Galaxy, chuck the dice bags out on the table. Half the set up done. A lot easier to pass between players than an insert tray or box, and easier to find the appropriate size bag for a few dice. When I used boxes I had to group dice colours together for it to work.
So I can tell you more in a couple of months… I guess.
