I've been working on making my own terrain/dungeon tiles recently and while looking for alternatives to foam or molding I was thinking about legos. While looking into it I was surprised that no one has built like Tomb of Horrors or any of the maps out of Legos. What's all of your thoughts on doing something like that? Seems really easy to customize so not sure why not.
Just remember to keep the walls 1-2 bricks in height. I've had plenty of players use Lego's as PC's even, plenty of equipment kits out about and it's helped for things like "Whose holding the torch" and "Ah crap I left my backpack at the entrance".
There is a Lego Dungeons and Dragons Facebook Group. Here
Lego is not cheap. Nor does it save space. I say this as someone who wants to attempt this as well. That said I have been slowly building my collection over 4 years. I have lots of stuff that can be used for scatter or furniture but even with my rather extensive collection, it is not an easy task. If you have the money for it you also have the money to by 3d terrain.
You will find the vast majority of people use the minifigs as minis on a battle mat rather than build full-size dungeons.
Do an image search for "BrickQuest" and you will be inundated with pictures of various dungeons that were made for BrickQuest which was essential a ruleset designed for Lego D&D.
I've done some simple buildings using Legos but never anything large scale. I think the thin straight pieces are pretty good as walls. If there's a Lego store nearby you could get a cup of loose Legos for a pretty good price if you load up all straight pieces.
I am so into this thread as I am getting ready to actually do this for an upcoming campaign with my group. I want to use Dwarven Forge like materials but I have invested $$ in LEGO over the past 40 years so it is a no brainer for me. I could easily make a 4 foot by 8 foot dungeon crawl map out of LEGO but the scale is questionable. Interestingly, a d20 is almost exactly the same height as two standard LEGO bricks. So if someone could figure out a good scale that would be helpful. I thought, if you all know LEGO measurement standard speak , a LEGO minifigure is about as tall as 4 LEGO bricks. That would mean that 5 feet would equal about 4 LEGO studs. Or 4x4 Plate is about a 5 foot square. Anyone else have an idea?
3x3 is almost perfect for a 1 inch grid. However, 3x3 plates are rare and expensive Bricklink. 4x4 is closer to an 1.25 grid if you line it up with a battle map you will see the difference pretty starkly.
If you google Brickquest you will see lots of dungeon layouts for that game (a lego based hack an slash dungeon game). They use 4x4.
Another method I have seen is to put a stud on every 3rd stud to make the grid. Which is slightly larger than 3x3 and slightly smaller than 4x4.
If you use regular D&D minis (28mm) you will find furniture a little big but very useable.
If you use Lego Minifigures 3x3 gets really tight space-wise.
You might consider gridless. This way you can create whatever you want and then use a ruler or tape measure to help with distance. This lets you make interesting floors or use the Lego as scatter terrain on the table.
3x3 is almost perfect for a 1 inch grid. However, 3x3 plates are rare and expensive Bricklink. 4x4 is closer to an 1.25 grid if you line it up with a battle map you will see the difference pretty starkly.
If you google Brickquest you will see lots of dungeon layouts for that game (a lego based hack an slash dungeon game). They use 4x4.
Another method I have seen is to put a stud on every 3rd stud to make the grid. Which is slightly larger than 3x3 and slightly smaller than 4x4.
If you use regular D&D minis (28mm) you will find furniture a little big but very useable.
If you use Lego Minifigures 3x3 gets really tight space-wise.
You might consider gridless. This way you can create whatever you want and then use a ruler or tape measure to help with distance. This lets you make interesting floors or use the Lego as scatter terrain on the table.
Very doable for me...I have read the rules of Brickquest and almost decided to do this rather than 5e...but this will save me a lot of money. Just need to figure out what my LEGO monsters stats are, like the LotR Cave Troll and the Fantasy Era Trolls, SW Rancor...
This is a great idea for anybody who has already invested a bunch in Lego over the years, but not really much of a money/effort saver for someone trying to get in for the start.
I remember when I was younger (and still owned a ton of Lego), we used minifigs for our characters, but otherwise still used pen and paper mats.
I've been working on making my own terrain/dungeon tiles recently and while looking for alternatives to foam or molding I was thinking about legos. While looking into it I was surprised that no one has built like Tomb of Horrors or any of the maps out of Legos. What's all of your thoughts on doing something like that? Seems really easy to customize so not sure why not.
You'd need a lot of Legos.
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There's quest builder which is an attempt at something like you're talking about.
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/4357ae98-8b43-441a-88b5-017e35bfb0ca
Just remember to keep the walls 1-2 bricks in height. I've had plenty of players use Lego's as PC's even, plenty of equipment kits out about and it's helped for things like "Whose holding the torch" and "Ah crap I left my backpack at the entrance".
There is a Lego Dungeons and Dragons Facebook Group. Here
Lego is not cheap. Nor does it save space. I say this as someone who wants to attempt this as well. That said I have been slowly building my collection over 4 years. I have lots of stuff that can be used for scatter or furniture but even with my rather extensive collection, it is not an easy task. If you have the money for it you also have the money to by 3d terrain.
You will find the vast majority of people use the minifigs as minis on a battle mat rather than build full-size dungeons.
Do an image search for "BrickQuest" and you will be inundated with pictures of various dungeons that were made for BrickQuest which was essential a ruleset designed for Lego D&D.
I wish you luck and hope you can do it.
I've got multiple generations of collected legos..... yes I'm making the haunted house from Ghosts of Saltmarsh..... :D
Pictures???
I've done some simple buildings using Legos but never anything large scale. I think the thin straight pieces are pretty good as walls. If there's a Lego store nearby you could get a cup of loose Legos for a pretty good price if you load up all straight pieces.
I haven't built the Haunted House yet, but I have built this Dice Tower: https://www.instagram.com/p/ByY_vPwBbHX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
I am so into this thread as I am getting ready to actually do this for an upcoming campaign with my group. I want to use Dwarven Forge like materials but I have invested $$ in LEGO over the past 40 years so it is a no brainer for me. I could easily make a 4 foot by 8 foot dungeon crawl map out of LEGO but the scale is questionable. Interestingly, a d20 is almost exactly the same height as two standard LEGO bricks. So if someone could figure out a good scale that would be helpful. I thought, if you all know LEGO measurement standard speak , a LEGO minifigure is about as tall as 4 LEGO bricks. That would mean that 5 feet would equal about 4 LEGO studs. Or 4x4 Plate is about a 5 foot square. Anyone else have an idea?
3x3 is almost perfect for a 1 inch grid. However, 3x3 plates are rare and expensive Bricklink. 4x4 is closer to an 1.25 grid if you line it up with a battle map you will see the difference pretty starkly.
If you google Brickquest you will see lots of dungeon layouts for that game (a lego based hack an slash dungeon game). They use 4x4.
Another method I have seen is to put a stud on every 3rd stud to make the grid. Which is slightly larger than 3x3 and slightly smaller than 4x4.
If you use regular D&D minis (28mm) you will find furniture a little big but very useable.
If you use Lego Minifigures 3x3 gets really tight space-wise.
You might consider gridless. This way you can create whatever you want and then use a ruler or tape measure to help with distance. This lets you make interesting floors or use the Lego as scatter terrain on the table.
Very doable for me...I have read the rules of Brickquest and almost decided to do this rather than 5e...but this will save me a lot of money. Just need to figure out what my LEGO monsters stats are, like the LotR Cave Troll and the Fantasy Era Trolls, SW Rancor...
This is a great idea for anybody who has already invested a bunch in Lego over the years, but not really much of a money/effort saver for someone trying to get in for the start.
I remember when I was younger (and still owned a ton of Lego), we used minifigs for our characters, but otherwise still used pen and paper mats.
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