2024 is the perfect year for a LEGO Ideas Dungeons and Dragons set

2024 is a big anniversary for Dungeons and Dragons, so how could the LEGO Ideas set lean into the game celebrating a big birthday?

With the latest rumours sourced by Instagram user 1414falconfan suggesting that LEGO Ideas 21348 Dungeons & Dragons could be due for release in a matter of months in April, 2024, this lines up perfectly with the 50th birthday of the original game. What’s more, an early preview of the game was believed to be shown in April, 1973, exactly 51 years before the rumoured release date of the associated LEGO Ideas set.

It wasn’t until January of the following year when Dungeons & Dragons was formally released, however. The very first edition came in a small box with three instruction booklets – a feature that would be easy for the LEGO Group to match if the designers wanted to nod back to that final release.

Of course, Dungeons & Dragons has always been a role-playing game, something that some fans believe will be hard to replicate in a LEGO set. For example, one reddit user commented on a discussion post: “Is a DND set going to be any different than any other fantasy set? I’m confused how you make sets when the point is that everyone has different events and stories?”

Nonetheless, in previous collaborations with gameplay-focused franchises like Animal Crossing, the LEGO Group has tried to inject some element of the spirit of the game into the set. LEGO Animal Crossing sets have some level of customisation, for example, with different coloured window frames available to capture that same spirit of personalising your island in the original game.

It remains to be seen how close the official LEGO Ideas set will stay to the original fan design from Lucas Bolt but in that first submission, there were several features that offered a dash of the same interactivity that DND campaigns do. Interchangeable doors mean that routes through the Dragon’s Keep can always be different depending on what you choose, and locations like the Tavern are cryptically described to contain hidden secrets “where many stories begin and are concluded”.

If the April release date does ring true for this 50th-anniversary set, we’d expect to hear some more details from the LEGO Group in the coming months. For now, all the details we have are a rumoured price of $359.99 and a piece count of 3,745.

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