Icons of the Plague

Human paladin, for our defeat Lolth campaign. Note: the hair won't actually attach over the armor, but the player still wanted it. :)

This one hasn't been used yet, but I'm hoping to play a necromancer once I get to take off the GM hat for a while, and came up with this figure. The staff is from some Mega-blocks set I picked up. The figure itself was a ghost-knight from one of Lego's character-collections (which had this awesome face hidden behind a full-face helmet!!). Sadly, the lighting mostly washed the eyes out. I may try for a better shot at some point. The head-wrap is probably from a Prince of Persia set.

I have a decent selection of miniatures in addition to all the Lego. I'm pleased with how murky and nasty this looks, as it was intended to be a hydra that lived in a rather filthy, sewery area, and tended to stay submerged.

While the torso is intended to represent armor, in this case it was used as a shirt with a dragon on it, as the character had a mild obsession with dragons.

* sigh * Lego arms/hands are not well-suited to look like they're actually shooting anything two-handed. Best I could do was line up the angle so the loose hand was in line with the weapon.

One of the figures we used in our Firefly campaign.

We had a character playing a deva with a paragon path or an epic destiny that gave him wings. At the time, I didn't have any Lego wings, so I designed and printed a custom rig for them (which I will ad to this post if I manage to get a clean pic of it; the files for it are on a defunct computer, unfortunately). Okay, finally got around to getting this. It had been on the Lego figure so long that it wouldn't lie flat, so I put a Pyrex baking dish over it, which mostly worked (though I have an accidental not-water-mark on the lower part). The blue fleur-de-lis matched the Lego figure the player had chosen. The lower part does not have that because it would always be hidden once on the Minifig, but I needed the wings to be double-sided. I just printed them twice, did a rough cut to paste them together, then cut the border more carefully once they were joined. I kept it in its own foam-padded case to protect it, and it lasted the whole campaign (though the very last session...

On the one hand, I'd do the lighting better if I redid this one. On the other, a rogue's face being hidden in shadow is rather appropriate.

Another early one, with unfortunate lighting.

I overfiltered this one, because I liked the sort of unreal effect it gave to a rather improbable creature.

The body is from one of Lego's minifigure collections, and was part of a dragon costume.

I wish I remembered what set that sort of lizardy helmet came from, but it works well enough for a kobold. Could also work for some other short-legged race wearing a weird helmet.

Just playing around, I liked the effect that putting a dwarf beard under the reptilian head gave. It certainly doesn't look like the kobold has a beard, much to my amusement.

Also poorly lit, also somewhat deliberate.

The bad lighting on this one was somewhat deliberate, as this was supposed to be a construct with lightning powers, and I wanted to de-emphasize the face.

Another serviceable one with lousy lighting.

Final eagle-rider, with a much more overhead view.

All the eagle-riders were done in the same session (using, ahem, the one ostrich I could find).

This is an earlier one, before I started paying much attention to composition. Usable, still preferable to me than the ones I found easily available online, but, eh, with lousy lighting.

So, due to the pandemic, my gaming group started meeting online, which meant I needed to find "tokens" to represent the various things they'd be fighting. The first few times, I took freebies from Roll20 mainly, and didn't really care for most of them, so since we usually use Lego for minis in-person, I figured I'd just start taking pictures to use. This is the first one that made me realize it was possible to make these look surprisingly good. It was mostly an accident, but it told me that I should really play around with lighting and angles to see what I could do with each figure. Those familiar with Lego sets may notice that the figure he is riding is, in fact, an Ostrich from the Prince of Persia Ostrich Race set, with some wings stuck on. It was the closest I could come to something birdlike for my Lego figures to ride. That was the reason I was playing with angles on this shoot, as I needed the angle to suggest an eagle more than an ostrich. Bac...