D&D Chess Set

[Ambrus]

Must
Own
D&D Chess Set

So
Much
Dragony
Goodness

 

[Jdvn1]

I want one!

Buy me one, someone?

 

[The Lost Muse]

Even with the discount offered on Amazon.ca this is a tough sell for me... I don't play chess so often that I would be happy about spending >$100 on any chess set.

 

[Li Shenron]

Money insanely spent. Not even if I could buy anything . You can't even play chess when all the pieces look the same!

 

[Whisper72]

wow.... just.... too.... kitsch.... (IMHO )

 

[Dog Moon]

Darn, I was kinda hoping they would be colored, though I don't know if that would improve or ruin the chess set.

 

[Whisper72]

Well... they coulda colored through with Good vs Evil.

Red/Gold dragons for Towers, Blue/Silver for the Bishops, Green/Bronze for the Knights for example... Would have made it a lot prettier. Then use small white or black dragons for the evil pawns, and Brass or Copper dragons for the good pawns.

Have the 'Tower' Pieces be curled around towers, the 'Bishop' pieces hold some sort of book as additional identifier, and have the 'Knight' pieces stand on all four feet to emulate the horsey sorta... I had kinda expected them to do it that way tho...

 

[Piratecat]

If it were really a D&D set, one side would have doughty halflings as pawns, clerics as bishops, stealthy rogues as rooks, paladins as the knights, a wizard as king and a female fighter as the queen.

The other side would have something like sniveling goblins and kobolds as pawns, mind flayers as bishops, manticores as rooks, displacer beasts as knights, a dragon as king and a beholder as queen.

You know, it just occurred to me -- you could make a great chess set out of your D&D minis.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

You know, it just occurred to me -- you could make a great chess set out of your D&D minis.

I had one like that I built in college. I found a really nice marble-inlaid board with internal drawers at a garage sale, and I used Ral Partha mini's.

Good -- Human men-at-arms with spears for pawns, a mounted paladin and a mounted elven archer for knights, a male and female cleric for bishops, stone and iron golems for rooks, male knight for the king and a female wizard for the queen.

Evil -- Orc pawns, a warg-riding goblin and a hellhound for knights, two demon-y things for bishops, earth and fire elementals for rooks, and a mind-flayer king and priestess of Llolth for king and queen.

I sold it to get cash for tuition my last semester. Wish I'd kept it

 

[MarkB]

You know, it just occurred to me -- you could make a great chess set out of your D&D minis.

I'd have preferred them to do the reverse: create a chess set whose pieces - half on white bases and half on black, of course - are well-detailed minis that can be exported straight to your tabletop game. With a set like that, and about a 50% discount, I might consider buying it.