LEGO Ideas 21348 Dungeons & Dragons is improbable

LEGO Ideas 21348 Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale‘s contents in one location have been deemed improbable by its adventure’s designer.

A new interview with some of the members of the team from Wizards of the Coast that helped bring 21348 Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale to life has now surfaced, following a recent roundtable with some of the team from the LEGO Group. It provides an interesting perspective on the project-turned-set and its tie-in adventure.

As well as revealing that adventure designer Chris Perkins is a fellow LEGO enthusiast who has a LEGO London set on display at home, the Red Dragon’s Tale adventure has been deemed improbable compared to most official D&D adventures.

“D&D is my favourite game and LEGO is my favourite toy and I started playing with LEGO really young and I have amassed quite a collection,” shared Game Design Architect Chris Perkins. “Like D&D, I’ll never fall out of love with LEGO and this is the first time in my life that I’ve gotten to bring these two passions together in one project.”

“This adventure has its own special sauce,” explained Executive producer of D&D Kyle Brink. “It is suffused throughout with love of the game, humour and a light touch.”

Many official D&D adventures aren’t nearly as rife with loot and varied monsters as 21348 Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale, though it’s all to the benefit of the model as noted in our review of the LEGO Ideas set. Still, the mix of rare magic items and dangerous monsters makes the set surprisingly improbable.

“It’s specifically a kind of adventure similar to Wild Beyond the Witchlight that can be played by many generations of players,” continues Brink. “It has such a sense of fun to it because we’ve packed so much, improbably, into a single place that there’s already a certain level of improbability about the whole thing, which is fine. That’s what D&D is, it’s fantasy and we’re doing stuff that can’t happen.”

As improbable a location and adventure as 21348 Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon’s Tale is, the LEGO Ideas model is available now, or on back order in the US, for £314.99 / $359.99 / €359.99. While the physical version of the adventure is sold out, the free digital version is available on LEGO.com and D&D Beyond with additional free content on the latter.

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