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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 5889330" data-attributes="member: 1465">We're all both D&D and Lego fans in my family, and IMHO there is no need for Hasbro to work with Lego, because Lego already has plenty of stuff that is totally useful as minis for D&D. Having used Lego before in D&D I can tell you the following:- there is an enormous amount of Lego minifigs for both PCs and monsters from various themes, some of which are perfect while others may require a little bit of imagination to adapt (e.g. AFAIK there are officially no "devils" in Lego, but you can use some Star Wars or other theme's minifigs to great result)- there may be a problem with availability because Lego doesn't usually keep the same theme around for longer than a couple of years (except classic stuff like City), so for instance Orcs are out of production, although some different ones will come with LotR theme; this means that you may need to look at the secondary market- secondary market for Lego minifigs means that you're pretty sure everything is available, but the prices can be high (outrageous for Star Wars minifigs, so forget about those)- cost for using Lego in D&D is HIGH, definitely higher than WotC random plastic minifigs... think about 2e/3$ per minifig, however that's only if you buy those as singles (such as Lego's "Collectible Minifigures" series), but if you buy Lego sets for the minifigs inside then of course you have to buy the whole box...- the best thing about using Legos for D&D is the total freedom... you can build your own dungeon or whatever, then disassemble it when finished and build something different; same with the minifigs, you can customize them (to a certain extent: hairpiece+head+torso+legs) and add/remove all accessories- keep in mind however that building structures (even just a couple of dungeon rooms) is damn hard, you'll need a lot of pieces and it's VERY time consuming!- the minifig accessories are the icing on the cake: think that if your PC switches from bow to sword in the middle of a battle, you are going to do exactly that to your minifig... this is not only nice but it's actually useful to keep in mind what everyone is holding, and where objects are located for example if dropped- for medium creatures just use the minifigs, for small creatures you can just default to shorter legs, for large and bigger you can build them with bricks; it's more difficult to make smaller-than-small creatures tho- BONUS: I've seen people doing pretty nice additional D&D props with Legos... for example using a small baseplate with coloured bricks to represent HP and durations of conditions, and to hold all your weapons and tools carried in the backpack; there is no limit to useful ideas you can think of</blockquote>

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