Icons of the Plague

This Gargoyle figure is from WotC's Castle Ravenloft game. Our group tends to refer to the games in this series as "D&D-Lite", and they're great for scratching the combat-dungeon-crawl-itch, but less so for the story-itch.

I figured a floating skull that makes bad puns really ought to have a Jester hat.

So, I wasn't really sure what the "black amber" part actually meant in the name of this creature. I decided to interpret it as "so old that the bones have blackened". Best I could manage was to invert the colors in the original image, and I'm rather pleased with the result. One of my players commented that it looks a bit cyberpunk and, well, fair. It's from the 13th Age SRD (link in the sidebar), so here are its stats as well:

The body and head are from a Monkey King figure in one of Lego's randomized figure collections. I replaced the monkey hair/ears with a horned helmet, and gave him a mace. The descriptions specified "bloody melee weapon", so I attempted to make the mace look a bit bloody. In all fairness, it turned out better than I expected, but not as well as I'd hoped. If I have the stats on hand, and they're from the 13th Age System Reference Document (which is free), I'm going to start sharing them with the figure, so here goes:

And here's the other mystery pack I ordered, Brick Warriors Castle Mystery Pack . I got 4 hats/helmets, 1 armor, 1 cloak, 2 weapons, and 1 vine/tentacle-thing. I'm rather pleased about the plague-doctor hat (brown) and matching cloak, as the hat that matched the cloak I ordered was out of stock. Note on the Jester hat: 2 plumes are part of the mold, and the other 2 are attached. If ordering, you can order different colors from the base-mold (which I would have preferred, but, eh, that's grab bags for you.)

Finally, Brick Warriors has some "mystery packs" - themed grab bags with 9 or 10 parts, and I couldn't resist picking up a few. This is the Fantasy Mystery Pack . I got 2 helmets, 2 armor, 2 weapons, 2 shields, a mohawk, and a loin cloth (yes, the tiny red thing is a loin cloth for a minifigure).

So, Lego has a fairly small number of weapon molds, and they use them over and over in different colors. Brick Warriors, on the other hand, have so much variety that even this is not the full extent of their selection. I mostly picked up things that were noticeably different from stuff already in my Lego collection, and that I thought I or my players might want to use. Oh, this shot also has a set of blue "wizard sleeves", which, sad to say, require removing the minifigure's arms to get on (so if I use them, I will pick one figure and they will become a permanent fixture on it, to avoid wear and tear on the arm joints). There is also a bear-trap, which I just thought was cool. Brick Warriors Weapons