Dungeons & Dragons celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with new core rulebooks and adventures, play events, and an exciting partnership with the LEGO Group.
Today, the LEGO Group and Dungeons & Dragons bring the iconic tabletop game to brick form with the release of a 3,745-piece set, as well as a LEGO-inspired adventure, digital dice, and more. We’ll showcase it all on April 6 with a Dungeons & Dragons game filmed live at the LEGO House and played with some of your favorite expert players.
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- The LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale set
- LEGO Dungeons & Dragons Minifigure Series
- A Free LEGO Adventure from Dungeons & Dragons
- An Actual Play Show to Celebrate This Collaboration
The LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale Set
The LEGO Group released a new LEGO set that celebrates Dungeons & Dragons’ storied history. The LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale set has 3,745 pieces and features a tavern with a removable roof, a tower, and a dungeon. An impressive brick red dragon, Cinderhowl, also wraps around the tower to loom overhead.
You’ll also find six minifigures, including an orc rogue, gnome fighter, elf wizard, and dwarf cleric, as well as iconic brick-built monsters, including the beholder, owlbear, and displacer beast.
A LEGO Fan Design
To help create this set, Wizards of the Coast and the LEGO Group created a challenge for fans on the LEGO Ideas platform for Dungeons & Dragons-inspired designs. Over 600 fans submitted their creations for consideration. The winning design was submitted by Lucas Bolt (BoltBuilds), a 32-year-old from Amsterdam. He then worked with the LEGO Design team to bring to life the unique setting found in this new set.
“The Dungeons & Dragons theme combined with my love of history, fantasy and making games, inspired me to create a playable layout with different challenges and routes to explore,” Bolt said. “I had so much fun designing this piece, and it is a real privilege seeing my design developed into a detailed LEGO set to celebrate 50 years of the iconic game."
The cover of the set’s building instructions was also handed over to the LEGO Ideas community and was created by LEGO fan Chris Yu. Inspired by Dungeons & Dragons core values of collaboration, creativity, and adventure, the cover showcases an epic battle between good and evil and is centered around a d20.
How to Get Your LEGO Set
The LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale set is available for purchase at LEGO stores and on LEGO.com. The set costs $359.99. Pick up your LEGO set between April 1-7 to receive an exclusive LEGO Dungeons & Dragons Mimic Dice Box as a free gift.
LEGO Dungeons & Dragons Minifigure Series
In September 2024, the fun continues with the LEGO Dungeons & Dragons Minifigure series. Keep an eye out for more news!
A Free LEGO Adventure from Dungeons & Dragons
Wizards and the LEGO Group also came together to create Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale, a 5th-level adventure inspired by the LEGO set of the same name. In this adventure, the players start in a tavern, uncover a sorcerer’s villainous scheme, and might have to face off against a fire-breathing foe!
Included are four character sheets based on the minifigures found in the LEGO set. The adventure has optional instructions for play as you build your LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale set. It can also be run with or without the Dungeons & Dragons rules.
How to Claim Your LEGO-D&D Adventure
Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale, premade characters, digital dice and backdrops, and character frames are now available and free to claim with your D&D Beyond account! The adventure is only available in PDF form.
LEGO Insiders can also download the adventure for free on that date on LEGO.com, or as a paperback for 2,700 Insider points (while supplies last).
Watch an Actual Play Show to Celebrate This Collaboration
To celebrate this amazing new set, actress Anjali Bhimani takes the Dungeon Master seat to lead LEGO’s first-ever adventure! D&D all-stars Ginny Di and Luis Carazo, as well as fan designer Lucas Bolt and LEGO Designer Jordan Scott join in this actual play based on the LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale set! The game took part on a custom LEGO Dungeons & Dragons table and was recorded live at the LEGO House.
Where to Watch
Fans can watch along as the story unfolds when it premieres on April 6 at 9 a.m. PT on the Dungeons & Dragons YouTube and Twitch channels and on LEGO.com!
Build a Tale Your Friends Will Love
Dungeons & Dragons and LEGO bricks have long been used to bring stories to life. We’re delighted to inspire new ones with the LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale set and a new adventure and accompanying show.
Michael Galvis (@michaelgalvis) is a tabletop content producer for D&D Beyond. He is a longtime Dungeon Master who enjoys horror films and all things fantasy and sci-fi. When he isn’t in the DM’s seat or rolling dice as his anxious halfling sorcerer, he’s playing League of Legends and Magic: The Gathering with his partners. They live together in Los Angeles with their adorable dogs, Quentin and Eliot.
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Posted Apr 2, 2024thanks
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Posted Apr 2, 2024Hey guys, remember? English is only one of the many languages here in Europe. And kids don't always speak it.
So, now is the moment you tell us you got this ! And made the translation in others languages for the kid's adventure book?
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Posted Apr 2, 2024April 2nd and the Free Mimic Dice Box Set is sold out. They are substituting an unrelated Lego flowerpot. This sucks. They are also on backorder, so we are doubly out of luck. Not a happy camper. And the PDF is in 11x17 format, not 8.5 x 11 so printing it without a way to crop it is a nightmare.
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Posted Apr 2, 2024its an npc. and he's a druid.
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Posted Apr 2, 2024Then only made like 10 Mimic Dice Boxes, so all were gone before the event even started… #shame
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Posted Apr 3, 2024Good News - They have fixed the PDF download for the adventure, so it is now in a format that will allow you to print it.
Bad News - You are still S O L on the mimic and will get a flower trellis which I can only image is something they made, tried to sell, an our now stuck with a bunch off.
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Posted Apr 3, 2024Spoilers
The adventure concludes with 4 level 5 pc's fighting a adult red dragon and a Wizard. Most likely outcome TPK. Weird.
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Posted Apr 3, 2024The mimic sold out even faster than that. I was lucky to be able to get one and I got on at 7:30am PDT April 1st, but it seems to be on backorder even for me and was sold out in less than an hour after that. So it was long before April 2 that it was sold out.
However, that was just the April 1st early access sale for Lego Insiders. They may put the promotion back up (as they sometimes do) on 4/4 when it goes up for everyone, and as mentioned by someone else if you're lucky you may be able to find it in physical stores as well. I would suggest though, if you really want it, and they do have it up tomorrow, to get your order in early.
The Flower trellis is an unrelated Gift with Purchase which Lego gives out different ones all the time if you buy items over a certain price.
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Posted Apr 3, 2024You imagine wrong. Lego produces special sets available as gifts with purchase for folks who spend over certain amounts (I think the present promotion is over $150.00). These sets are not failed products Lego wants to get rid of, but small little things that were always intended to be used as a gift with purchase. For at least the past two years, the April promotions have been flowers--it is, after all, springtime. Additionally, the flowers are not a substitution for the mimic, they are a different gift.
Now, it does seem like Lego might have dropped the ball and underestimated the demand for this set. It was a tad predictable the set would sell as well as it did--I expect a number of D&D fans are also AFOL, and having the gift with purchase run out before 24 hours is not exactly ideal. That said, it also is predictable that the gift would run out--that is sort of the reality of a product that (a) has limited availability and (b) is with an IP Lego has never tested before, so is likely to be a bit more cautious before investing heavily. Waiting even a day on that kind of product is almost inviting disappointment.
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Posted Apr 4, 2024YEAH LET'S GOOO!!!!!! (ok thats a lot of exclamation points!)
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Posted Apr 4, 2024What? Huh?
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Posted Apr 4, 2024no clue
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Posted Apr 4, 2024??????????????????
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Posted Apr 5, 2024Already ordered :) So excited
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Posted Apr 5, 2024Nine hells yeah
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Posted Apr 5, 2024£315 yikes that's quite some adult Lego tax right there. If this was for kids you'd be looking at a good £100 less. Kind of shameless of Lego really - but not at all surprising.
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Posted Apr 5, 2024but the funny bit is buying all the individual peices is more than double that price
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Posted Apr 5, 2024FYI ... If you are downloading the PDF for Red Dragon's Tale. Ignore the Contents Page. It is wrong and the pages do represent the locations of material it is referring to.
Looks like "Editor: Janica Carter" needs to reedit this document - Again !!
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Posted Apr 5, 2024Omg LEGO dragonborn 🦎🦎🦎