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[Eddren]

In describing DF to other people, I always use Lego as one of the associations. "The same freedom, that Lego allowed you as a kid, it's only boundary being your own imagination"

*COUGHandthebugsofthegameCOUGH*

I take it you don't weaponize bugs, then?

[Linenoise02]

I have been mucking around with Lego with the boy and couldn't help but think that there should be heaps of cross over appeal between DF fans and Lego fans - however - a quick google search reveals nothing. No one has attempted to model a fortress, illustrate a story, make a movie, or anything DF related with Lego! This must've rectified!

I assume that rampant alcoholism, child labor, murder, violent dismemberment, genocide (for profit), genocide (for fun), and science experiments far beyond any horror movie are all things Lego would want to distance itself from.

[TinyPirate]

Oh, they don't need to put out sets, I am just surprised there are no Lego/DF crossover geeks who have modelled, say, their fortress entrance in Lego.

[Matoro]

I have always said that there is only two games in world, Dwarf Fortress and Brikwars. All other game-things are just lame copies which are made for people who don't have imagination.

And I have build few DF-things to legos. Mainly minifigs, nothing big. Underground fortress would be extremely hard to make.

[treczoks]

I have been mucking around with Lego with the boy and couldn't help but think that there should be heaps of cross over appeal between DF fans and Lego fans - however - a quick google search reveals nothing. No one has attempted to model a fortress, illustrate a story, make a movie, or anything DF related with Lego! This must've rectified!

This is an Outing :-)
I'm a so-called "AFOL" - Adult Fan Of Lego. One of those guys who build LEGO models for fun. And I'm a dwarf herder, too. So why haven't I build a Dwarf Fortress from LEGO bricks?

Well, have a look at the average fortress: All you can see from the surface is a hole in the ground, surrounded by a few walls, some animal pens, a trampeled path to the river and a lot of treestumps. All the interesting stuff happens down below. Honestly, this is not exactly inspiring.

I do have LEGO dwarves, and I plan on making one of them my avatar here, but DF does not deliver much to show.

Apart from that, each embark quare is about a sqare metre if build to a sensible scale, and would take a LOT of bricks.

I have to admit, though, that I used LEGO as a planning tool. Just grab a base plate, a few bricks, and start laying out your fortress, one stud per tile.

Leg bedre,
Christian

[TinyPirate]

Good point - but I was thinking that my fortress entrance, for example, would be a great Lego model, being through a waterfall into a cliff face. I think you could definitely do scenes from DF, or tell a comic. What fun it would be.

[slink]

I build worlds with my Legos and my cats play the parts of megabeasts with the building destroyer flag set.  Does that count?   

Only if you take pictures and post them here.

The whole thing is posted here: http://www.drislink.com/slink/lego/fun.htm  I never finished it because I had to go run a family business for a few years.  I am actually on the next set of cats and haven't managed yet to clean up all of the Legos from the dining room.   

[C0NNULL]

@slink, I think you out Lego me.

I was going to mention that it would be hard to look about my place and not see computers or Legos, (or the cat or ferret,) but I am outclassed. (Also, no photos due to walking out the door and going to work. We all know we need photos.)

Plus, printer is using paper I no longer stock. Nice touch.

[Pawel1997PL]

*COUGHandthebugsofthegameCOUGH*

Bugs what bugs, are you talking about those ants or maybe about beetles, oh I know about what are you talking, you're talking about those mosquitos arent you?

[Miuramir]

I'm a so-called "AFOL" - Adult Fan Of Lego. One of those guys who build LEGO models for fun. And I'm a dwarf herder, too. So why haven't I build a Dwarf Fortress from LEGO bricks?

Also an AFOL here, although not super active these days.  Most of my purchases lately have been to support my growing Pirates fleet, as we use those for miniatures gaming; but I've been a Castle fan for a very long time. 

Well, have a look at the average fortress: All you can see from the surface is a hole in the ground, surrounded by a few walls, some animal pens, a trampeled path to the river and a lot of treestumps. All the interesting stuff happens down below. Honestly, this is not exactly inspiring.

Your lack of faith is disappointing I've seen some really neat MOCs over the years that are very DF like; a quick search turns up stuff like the following:  (note that none of these are mine)
* Ty Keltner's "Dwarf Mine"
* DARKspawn's "The Necromancer Bites Off More Than He Can Chew"
* DNL's "The dwarves mine"
* Bryan Graham's "Balin's Tomb"

In general, you are correct, but there's (at least) three obvious ways around the problem:
* Set the diorama when something exciting is happening; incoming caravan racing for the doors with a goblin ambush just behind, magma death machine evaporating an elf siege, or whatever
* Do a cross-section or other interior view, showing the much more interesting interior of the fort
* Plenty of folks do above-ground forts anyway, the Lego dwarves could be no exception

[miauw62]

In describing DF to other people, I always use Lego as one of the associations. "The same freedom, that Lego allowed you as a kid, it's only boundary being your own imagination"

And your hardware.

[martinuzz]

In describing DF to other people, I always use Lego as one of the associations. "The same freedom, that Lego allowed you as a kid, it's only boundary being your own imagination"

And your hardware.

Hmmyea, and that. Still, the freedom Lego offers you is also limited by hardware. In this case the amount of cash your parents were willing to spend to buy you those additional block sets.

[Urist McUristy]

Man I just can picture building a set and having a white dwarven minifigure behind some walls and having someone ask me what he is doing and be all like "Oh, he just walled himself in."

[slink]

@slink, I think you out Lego me.

I was going to mention that it would be hard to look about my place and not see computers or Legos, (or the cat or ferret,) but I am outclassed. (Also, no photos due to walking out the door and going to work. We all know we need photos.)

Plus, printer is using paper I no longer stock. Nice touch.

I still have one large box each of normal and wide tractor-feed paper, but the ribbons have long since dried out.  The printers that used it are buried under other stuff, but were working when I last tried them.  So is the laserjet that replaced them (broken), and the three inkjets that replaced the laserjet (one broken and two very expensive to keep in ink) .  We are back to laserjet again, now.  I also have a collection of computers in varying degrees of disrepair going back as far as 8086.  I gave away the Ataris, and the Z-80 that I built myself, about 20 years ago.  I am gradually throwing out about 25 years worth of PC Magazine.  After that I plant to start throwing out BYTE, and then some others which I have in much smaller numbers.

In between bouts of playing DF, I'm playing MM6, which is from 1998.  It's a very nice game.   

[TinyPirate]

Great picture!

I would -love- to see a side on, cut away fortress. That would look awesome. Or failing that, some vignettes. There's a lot that could be done.