did anybody ever use...

[gwydion]

Has anyone besides me ever used LEGO figures for miniatures? Sure, they don't look as serious--but they're highly customizable, poseable, and can actually suffer battle damage (removing head, arm, etc, can disarm weapon visually). Not only that, but they're much sturdier than pewter, and they still fit in 1 square inch.

I have several hundred of these buggers hanging around from my youth, and my friends and I spend a half hour just creating our new mini-avatars at the beginning of every campaign.

Not only that, but if you have spare bricks around, you can create terrain and walls.

Hopefully I won't get bashed too bad for this suggestion...

Of course, there's always the chance that you all have heard of this before and I missed the posts about it. Oops

Gwydion

 

[orbitalfreak]

I've used them before, but not in any major cinematic scale. The figures were definitely a step up from colored chads of paper, and the bricks made good walls (at least, they were better than using the spare pencils laying around the table.)

We also used them for spell effects. The druid had a pair of the clear cockpit-cover pieces, one red and the other blue, that he used for Fire Shield. The blocks also made it easy to depict flying or otherwise high-altitude characters, freeing up some dice stacks that had been used to provide elevation.