Our Own Ideas Platinum Medal Round: zed0 vs. Kevin_Yuu
The semi-finals are done, and the top two are clear: u/zed0's d20-dragon-dungeon vs. u/Kevin_Yuu's modular dungeon.
Be sure to see all their pictures here and here and then vote in the poll below to determine the platinum and gold winners of Our Own Ideas bracket.
I've set the poll to run for a week; during that time I'll run some shorter polls to determine the silver and bronze winners as well.
Posted Jan 12, 2023, 4:13 PM UTC
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The people have spoken: they like dragons.
It's a little of that, but I think the modular tilesets are the real driver. The recent poll between u/Kevin_Yuu's submission and my own is a good example: both include a dragon, but the runaway winner also included modular tiles.
Similarly, u/zed0's preceding contest was against another red dragon. Again, the difference was playability: both were very well executed, but one had modular terrain and creatures while the other was a dice tower.
This was also the common thread in the community's disappointment with Lego's selections from the IDEAS contest. The selections were fine by themselves, but taken together, lacked the degree of pure playability that we were expecting from a contest celebrating the marriage of two endlessly creative platforms for play.
The fan contest has been a really tough one at this point because there were so many good entries going up against one another; they're all incredible in terms of detail, functionality, playability, and overall design. I really liked your entry as well!
I do agree that a big part of the community's disappointment was that we were hoping to get a set made by D&D fans that could be used practically for D&D. A lot of the users here actively do make use of Lego for D&D and this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to put our creative passions to use- seeing the "expert review" choices made us realize that Lego & WoTC wanted a D&D themed lego set rather than a genuine D&D product made of lego (which makes sense, but yeah I was still a little butt hurt.) I'm glad the dragon keep won though, it was a worthy idea and I'm still going to buy the set whenever that comes out. Can't wait to see who wins our subreddit's contest!
This was super close! I only just noticed the poll was closed.
I agree with both of you about the playability, and in this case I think yours (/u/Kevin_Yuu) would be a lot more practical to play with, partly due to the grid based nature of it, partly because a lot of adventures end up being set in dungeons. I also love the bases you've made for all of the characters.
I'm also a little disappointed in the final Ideas selection because it feels to me like there's nothing uniquely D&D about it, though I'm sure Lego will polish it up with some branding etc.
And dungeons.