by Dexter345
The way my group saves the state of the game between encounters is that everybody has his own plastic bag for his character, hero tokens, equipment, and skill cards. Between Encounter 1 and Encounter 2 of any quest, it also holds wounds/hearts, search cards that have been picked up (so no need to worry about the search deck; it is by default everything that hasn't been picked up yet).As Overlord I would put my different sets of cards (OL deck, OL hand, OL discard, and OL not-being-used-in-this-particular-quest) back-to-front to separate them in their bag, but it still requires some memory to remember which is which. I suppose it would be just as easy to have labeled bags to separate them all out.
The only other thing is that heroes need to remember whether they have used their search cards or not, and the way we have handled it is just to face them in the same direction as skill/equipment cards if they haven't been used, or in the opposite direction if they have been used.