Action Figure Party

[steeldragons]

Do you remember the action figure line for various "sample" Dungeons & Dragons characters in the 80's?

Has anyone ever statted them up and played them in a table top game?

Just as a stray thought, I wondered if the characters they created could/would actually be a viable party put together. Given the years these toys were created, I guess they would appropriately be created as 1e AD&D characters.

Here's the guys I was thinking of, though I know there were others...
Ringlerun: the wizard
Strongheart: the paladin
Elkhorn: the dwarf...fighter I presume since he was wearing chain armor. Though making him a fighter-thief since they never released any "good thief" figures.
Melf (though when I originally got him, he had some other I don't wuite recall...Meriden...or something like that?): an elf...appeared to be a fighter, I would make him a fighter-magic-user.
Mercion: the cleric (she had that cool staff with mace heads at each end

If you want to get reeeeally into it, there's also...
Northlord: the barbarian
Deeth:...I think she was a "cavalier." Heavy plate armor and shield with a triple flail weapon.
I remember (but never had) a ranger figure...and was there a second (male) cleric figure?

I dunno. Was just waxing nostalgic and wondering if anyone ever tried using these guys in an actual PnP game.

--SD

 

[ExploderWizard]

Do you remember the action figure line for various "sample" Dungeons & Dragons characters in the 80's?

Has anyone ever statted them up and played them in a table top game?

Just as a stray thought, I wondered if the characters they created could/would actually be a viable party put together. Given the years these toys were created, I guess they would appropriately be created as 1e AD&D characters.

Here's the guys I was thinking of, though I know there were others...
Ringlerun: the wizard
Strongheart: the paladin
Elkhorn: the dwarf...fighter I presume since he was wearing chain armor. Though making him a fighter-thief since they never released any "good thief" figures.
Melf (though when I originally got him, he had some other I don't wuite recall...Meriden...or something like that?): an elf...appeared to be a fighter, I would make him a fighter-magic-user.
Mercion: the cleric (she had that cool staff with mace heads at each end

If you want to get reeeeally into it, there's also...
Northlord: the barbarian
Deeth:...I think she was a "cavalier." Heavy plate armor and shield with a triple flail weapon.
I remember (but never had) a ranger figure...and was there a second (male) cleric figure?

I dunno. Was just waxing nostalgic and wondering if anyone ever tried using these guys in an actual PnP game.

--SD

IIRC the dwarf Elkhorn was a dwarf, as in the Basic D&D class. The elf's name was Peralay and all of these characters and others had statistics in the Basic D&D product, The Shady Dragon Inn.

I still use that map for my games today.

I think some of these characters were also featured in the module, Quest for the Heartstone, an expert level Basic D&D adventure.

 

[steeldragons]

Peralay! That was it. Thank you. That was gonna drive me nuts all day.

I must spread some around...someone hit up EW for me.

Thanks also for the info. I don't recall ever seeing the Shady Dragon Inn product. I'll have to be on the lookout for that.

Were they any good to use?

--SD

 

[ExploderWizard]

Thanks also for the info. I don't recall ever seeing the Shady Dragon Inn product. I'll have to be on the lookout for that.

Were they any good to use?

--SD

The Shady Dragon Inn was sort of like the Rogues Gallery for Basic D&D. In addition to stats for NPCs of various levels of every class, each one came with a little bit of backstory fluff and/or notes on personality.

In addition to the NPC's the inn itself was was a premade ready to use location that could be dropped anywhere and used as a base of operations. That stats could easily be converted to AD&D and the NPC fluff and cool map of the inn make it worth getting even for other systems.

 

[Rhun]

Has anyone ever statted them up and played them in a table top game?

They are also statted up in the Basic D&D Adventure Quest of the Heartstone.

"The module was designed for use with the LJN and TSR toy D&D characters, such as Strongheart and Warduke, and includes statistics for all the toy figures."

Ringlerun: the wizard
Strongheart: the paladin
Elkhorn: the dwarf...fighter I presume since he was wearing chain armor. Though making him a fighter-thief since they never released any "good thief" figures.
Melf (though when I originally got him, he had some other I don't wuite recall...Meriden...or something like that?): an elf...appeared to be a fighter, I would make him a fighter-magic-user.
Mercion: the cleric (she had that cool staff with mace heads at each end

If you want to get reeeeally into it, there's also...
Northlord: the barbarian
Deeth:...I think she was a "cavalier." Heavy plate armor and shield with a triple flail weapon.
I remember (but never had) a ranger figure...and was there a second (male) cleric figure?

I actually have all of these figures in a box in a closet somewhere.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The Shady Dragon Inn might have been the original TSR battle map product, as well, since it was scaled for use with 25 mm miniatures. A great map, and I've included it in my 3E campaign. (In fact, if I had to do it over again, I would have given it an even bigger role, instead of putting it several towns over from the base village.)

 

[opteryx]

I always preferred the solid PVC(?) figures. I had almost the entire collection. I loved them. Wish I held onto them! Those would have been good to use.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

For a refresher on ALL the 80's toy products take a look at this auction.

1983 AFA AD&D TSR DUNGEONS & DRAGONS LJN MOC COLLECTION | eBay

DS

 

[FoxWander]

Here's a quick pdf with those statted characters. Enjoy!

 

[Stormonu]

Peralay! That was it. Thank you. That was gonna drive me nuts all day.

I must spread some around...someone hit up EW for me.

Thanks also for the info. I don't recall ever seeing the Shady Dragon Inn product. I'll have to be on the lookout for that.

Were they any good to use?

--SD

Actually, the elf was initially named Melf, but they changed it (not sure why, we got him before they changed the name).

I played through Quest for the Heartstone, and I seem to recall enjoying it.

Ringlerun the wizard also showed up on the late cover of the PHB

And Warduke was feature in one of the D&D cartoon episodes, where he captured Dungeon Master! Warduke is also the only one who made a return in Dungeon magazine (as a solo 20th level fighter opponent) sometime during 3E. He also has a D&D plastic mini modeled on him.