{"id":31190,"date":"2015-04-30T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31190"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T18:30:10","slug":"when-dungeons-and-dragons-met-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/when-dungeons-and-dragons-met-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"When <em>Dungeons and Dragons<\/em> met LEGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A picture really can convey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericharshbarger.org\/lego\/dungeons_and_dragons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a thousand words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lego-version-of-1977-D-and-D-box.jpg\" alt=\"Lego version of 1977 D and D box\" width=\"848\" height=\"912\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lego-version-of-1977-D-and-D-box.jpg 848w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lego-version-of-1977-D-and-D-box-139x150.jpg 139w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lego-version-of-1977-D-and-D-box-480x516.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lego-version-of-1977-D-and-D-box-595x640.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve often contend that three of the most significant influences on my adolescent years were: LEGO building, computer programming, and playing <em>Dungeons &#038; Dragons<\/em>. With this latest mosaic project, I more or less bring all of those things together (the LEGO and <em>D&#038;D<\/em> are obvious, while behind the scenes I have the software program I wrote to help me map out the whole mural).<\/p>\n<p>For those not quite as nerdy as myself, here&#8217;s the background on this image. It is the cover to the boxed set of the 1977 version on the game <em>Dungeons &#038; Dragons<\/em>. This was the first version of the game released as the &#8220;Basic&#8221; set. It was the first set that my brother and I owned and played with. Obviously, the countless hours I spent reading the rulebook and perusing the illustrations made a pretty big impression on me. In fact, I still run a Basic <em>D&#038;D<\/em> campaign semi-regularly using this very set. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A picture really can convey a thousand words: I&#8217;ve often contend that three of the most significant influences on my adolescent years were: LEGO building, computer programming, and playing Dungeons &#038; Dragons. With this latest mosaic project, I more or less bring all of those things together (the LEGO and D&#038;D are obvious, while behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28],"tags":[102,1351],"class_list":["post-31190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-media","tag-art","tag-dungeonsanddragons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-874","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54978,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31190\/revisions\/54978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}