Dungeons & Dragons A crossover between D&D and Lego, "Tales of the Red Dragon," is now available. However, as I noted when the details were announced, the full set is a bit pricey at $360.

To be fair, you're getting 3,745 bits of LEGO, but still, unless you're a hobbyist, that's a dragon's ransom. Fortunately, you don't have to buy the full set to play this adventure. However, you will need to create an account to do so.

The adventure is set in a tavern called "Inn Plain Sight" where you and your friends have wandered into a tavern famous for its delicious hot wings. But not all is as it seems; evil lurks in the shadows, cats go missing, and the food seems to be suspiciously reheated. If you've ever been to a chain pub in England, imagine an ancient crumbling tower standing beside it.

The adventure was designed by Christopher Perkins, a prolific designer at Wizards of the Coast, who has worked at Wizards since 1997 on such adventures as "The Curse of Strad," "The Abyss," and "The Storm King's Thunder. However, he only started working for Wizards in 1997. But he didn't start working for Wizards until 1997, because this adventure featured a dragon. Dragons breathe fire and have wings. Perkins indeed.

The adventure is designed for a party of four level 5 adventurers, but it is designed specifically for the prefab characters (Orc Rogue, Gnome Fighter, Elven Wizard, and Dwarven Cleric) that come with the adventure (and the Lego set)

One complaint.

If I have one complaint, it is that the prefab characters in the PDF read more like a shopping list than an actual usable sheet. If you want to play, you'll have to dig around in the book you have and take note of what features are actually there. Of course, if you are playing the D&D Lego one-shot, chances are you are already familiar with the system and have the printed books or the books unlocked in D&D Beyond. Still, this is not a starter set.

However, rules do exist for playing without the D&D 5e system. There, damage is inflicted with a coin flip, and the negative effects can be avoided by removing accessories from the Lego figure. This is because to get the full rules-lite experience, one would have to buy the $360 set, at which point one would be better off buying the source book and doing some reading.

In any case, the adventure itself is a fun, corny take on the standard D&D setting.