D&D General Bricks & Minifigs World Record TTRPG Event

[EldritchHistory]

Anybody hear about/participating in this? Looks like there's locations all across North America. They're using D&D 5E (2014) rules and players are to make their own 5th level characters. You can also state you'd like to DM when signing up.

"October 19th
Get ready to dive into a fantastical world where the undead roam, war wages, and daring adventures beckon. It’s an event you don’t want to miss! Registrations available through October 12th.

Select your local Bricks & Minifigs location and sign up for The World Record TTRPG event today!

The lich Zar'thuul and his undead army have invaded! Defend the light alongside the goddess Elora in the epic campaign "The Dead Wars".

Included Materials:

• LEGO® Series Minifig (available for pick up in-store 1 week before event)
• Customizable Minifig Maker Table Fig (available for pick up in-store 1 week before event)
• Exclusive Bricks & Minifigs D20 (available for pick up in-store 1 week before event)
• Character Sheets (sent via email)

Optional Additions:

• Exclusive T-Shirt (purchased separately)"

Edit: suppose I should include the link

TTRPG World Record 2024 | Bricks and Minifigs

bricksandminifigs.com

 

[J-H]

There's one about an hour from me. I've never heard of this before, and the info page is really short on details. Anyone have more info?
It would be interesting to actually play instead of just DMing in person.

 

[J-H]

Local(ish) store didn't have a lot of info, and aren't sure if they have a DM or not. I didn't volunteer this time
I have signed up. I haven't ever participated in trying to set a world record before.

I'll show up with a Tortle Deep One Warlock (salt-encrusted emissary of the seas) focused on EB with Push+Pull, and a half-plate+shield PAM Zealot barbarian who can serve as an AC+HP+damage frontliner. I think one of the two should fit into just about any party composition.

 

[J-H]

Stats were rolled (4d6b3) and I had 17, 14, 12, 8, 8, 7. I ended up playing a bard! This is the first time I have been a PLAYER instead of a DM IRL in over a year and a half.

My party ended up being:
My bard
Another bard (the player was a bit confused by DNDB defaulting to 5.24 rules; he went Vuman and I think skipped the feat and had some weird initiative stuff instead)
War Cleric 2/Armorer Artificer 3 multiclass
Paladin 5
The other table also had a bard, so 3/7 characters were bards... somehow.
We moved at a pretty good clip through a set of random encounters that we could resolve, then a fight in a cemetery with some ignorable zombies, some moderately threatening cultists, and some absolutely devastatingly deadly griffons that apparently had 3 attacks, at least one of which was for 2d6 something or other.
Both martials got killed, but we had an item handing out "raise dead with 20hp" as needed as an action. There was some nice loot, including a scimitar with +2 damage dice and a flame tongue that did radiant instead of fire damage. Nothing for the archers, but we also got a chance to pick encounter types partly based on what sort of loot we were going for.

There were 168 tables playing simultaneously in multiple countries. At a certain point near the end, everyone who succeeded in lodging a holy spear in the BBEG's "I split my power many ways to kill you all" avatars got one round to damage him as much as possible. He had 17,000hp, and the tables that were successful did around 19,000hp worth of damage, killing him and leading to the good ending.

My table under-contributed (the paladin missed both his attacks and I only had a Shatter to hit him with), but in the wrap-up we were told that some venues had tables with 5-10 players.

It was a lot of fun! They said that we did set a world record, and implied this might happen again.

 

[Moonmover]

Sounds like fun! I'm sorry I missed it.

 

[darjr]

A friend of mine was running a table locally. I wasn’t able to go.

 

[EldritchHistory]

I had a blast running for this merry band of adventurers! There were some rough fights in there, but in the end they helped end Zar'thuul's cough Vecna cough attempt at godhood.

They also had awesome Lego cinematics at each stage of the adventure, I'll share them if I can find a link. Some silly Lego skeletons attacking a city, that was really well done.