A cheap alternative to buying eBay Minis

[wlmartin]

Dungeons and Dragons and Lego | The Princess Planet

 

[Talok]

Interesting. I'd still rather resort to using lame carboard tokens than these.

 

[wlmartin]

I just think back to when I was a kid, had buckets of lego and used to build houses and spaceships.

Why not put that creativity to work and build D&D Dungeons.

Some of the Dungeon Wall Sets you can buy can be pretty expensive but do look cool. Why not just mimic the idea with Grey / Black Lego Bricks.

I agree the idea of making Lego Minis (which although is my suggestion is not what I think the post I linked to was doing, I think they were just being artistic) is a little rough around the edges but expanding the idea to the 3d enviroment of a D&D dungeon sounds intriguing.

You can even make a roof, that whilst made from Lego would have the bottom pieces covered with paper or card so its easy to lift off. That way if your group is entering a room, rather than just have everything open plan from a birds eye view, you can cover certain areas up and even better, pre-place the mini's inside so that when the roof opens up inside is the Monster Group.


Am I crazy for thinking that Lego as a substitute for expensive craft models is a good idea for D&D Dungeon Design?

 

[OpsKT]

While neat, the last thing that Legos are in comparison to Minis is cheap.

 

[wlmartin]

While neat, the last thing that Legos are in comparison to Minis is cheap.

I am not talking about walking into a shop and buying the expensive legos. There are many different generic brands of Legos, often you can get a bucket for £5... Sure the walls might look red and blue and yellow in colour but I do think it could look cool.

Another interesting idea would be to create 3x3 plyboard jigsaw pieces and 1x1 corner plyboard jigsaw pieces. Slot them together and you have your dungeon.

I am sure there are plenty of other cool tips (heavy card etc)

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

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I just think back to when I was a kid, had buckets of lego and used to build houses and spaceships.

Why not put that creativity to work and build D&D Dungeons.

Some of the Dungeon Wall Sets you can buy can be pretty expensive but do look cool. Why not just mimic the idea with Grey / Black Lego Bricks.

I agree the idea of making Lego Minis (which although is my suggestion is not what I think the post I linked to was doing, I think they were just being artistic) is a little rough around the edges but expanding the idea to the 3d enviroment of a D&D dungeon sounds intriguing.

You can even make a roof, that whilst made from Lego would have the bottom pieces covered with paper or card so its easy to lift off. That way if your group is entering a room, rather than just have everything open plan from a birds eye view, you can cover certain areas up and even better, pre-place the mini's inside so that when the roof opens up inside is the Monster Group.


Am I crazy for thinking that Lego as a substitute for expensive craft models is a good idea for D&D Dungeon Design?

Although you may be saying something interesting here, I'll never know due to the unreadable font you've chosen. For the love of our eyes, please choose a font without serifs! And a little bigger wouldn't hurt either.