Legomania!

[Glade Riven]

I am seriously considering (once I have disposible income again) of investing in Legos instead of regular miniatures and dungeon-mapping products. Here's why:

1. Lego characters are about the size of medium creatures in the standard miniature scale
2. Endless customizability! Players can really customize their characters with various parts.
3. Extreme Dungeon Mastery! Custom dungeon segments can have built in traps, secret doors, and all sorts of stuff. And it can be made modular (like the old castle sets).
4. Virtual Construction! One of the brilliant things Lego has done is Lego Creator, which allows people to build and and then buy their own sets.
5. Cost - I havn't done a technical breakdown, but the cost doesn't seem any better or worse than typical RPG/miniature supplies. And I don't have to paint.
6. Combinding two hobbies - Always liked building with legos. Most of the stuff I have now is technic stuff, though.
7. Hopefully it will make role-playing more accessible to some people I know.

And the list will probably grow...

 

[renau1g]

Great idea, back in 2e we used a battlemap and had legos for PC's, one of the guys even made little capes for them as his PC had been a tailor before adventuring (those non-weapon proficiencies in 2e were fun). It was great when we found a new magic sword for our barbarian and the DM pulled out a shiny sword he picked up for us. The player loved it!

 

[Raven Crowking]

I used Legos with the Star Wars RPG. I even sent Lego a letter to try to get them to package Star Wars characters seperately.......Of course, that didn't fly.

 

[Camelot]

I've done the same thing with Star Wars, and one of my D&D players uses a lego mini alongside the metal ones. Of course, that means he's super tall compared to them...but he's a dragonborn, so it's okay. =)

 

[doctorhook]

Lego ROCKS!

Personally, I would like to see WotC forgo producing any more minis, and license Lego to produce the official minis support for D&D. A square of 4x4 pips could equal 1 square in game. Custom pieces could support iconic monsters.

Lego can even do a lot of D&D monsters these days. Need a Mind Flayer? Check this new helmet out:

It belongs to this guy, below. Just replace his tentacles with legs, and you're in business.

If this stuff was licensed, it could even be produced in the correct colours. And dungeon sets tailored to adventures. Can you imagine buying a Tomb of Horrors Lego set?

...Of course, I can just hear what the "4E is too cartoony"-crowd would say about this.

 

[Raven Crowking]

...Of course, I can just hear what the "4E is too cartoony"-crowd would say about this.

You mean: "Kewl Beans! I can use this for my game, too!"?

Let's face it. Lego has always rocked, and always will!

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[Klaus]

Those who might want to follow this line of reasoning need to hunt down LEGO sets from the Castle (dwarves! orcs! ogres! skeletons! dragons!), Indiana Jones and Prince of Persia lines.

 

[Glade Riven]

Maybe we need to use this and start a movement!

And, well, even though Megablocks isn't a very good knockoff of lego, they do have alternatives for figs. In fact, I've got a few Megablocks Dragons in my figure collection...

Hasbro is more likely to knock off Lego instead of paying lego to make them, and that didn't work very well when they tried that with Transformers (but the quality was really, really bad and the hasbroblock TFs didn't technically transform).

 

[noffham]

LEGO is one of the Exhibitors at Gen Con this year.

I hope they bring enough of the little guys...

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

I used Legos back in the day, too, though not on a formalized grid. Notable characters & NPCs were Lego men with fabric cloaks, new faces, painted coats of arms, customized/reshaped weapons and the like. Mooks went faceless, and were often built of bricks rather than actual man-pieces.

I built and laid seige to a PC stronghold of castle pieces; it hung around for years. Many, many D&D encounters played out on all kinds of props built of Legos and other random household objects. The only thing that frustrated me as a kid was the lack of Lego monsters-- and the modern sets seem to have fixed that to a degree!

All these legos have long since been reduced to their constituent parts, and are now toys for my parent's grandkids, none of which are my own progeny. Perhaps one of these nephews or nieces will make the Lego/D&D connection at some point...?