Lego Heroica

Timothy, my Lego-lovin' pal, this one's for you!

Lego has a number of board games (the intended age group varies depending on the game) in which players build the board, the game pieces, and other components, and then sit down to play the game. I just found out about their series of fantasy games, known as Heroica (official site here and more info here). They looked like pretty cool dungeon-crawl quasi-roleplaying games, so I picked up a couple of them in the clearance aisle at Target this afternoon. Matthew and I will run through them this evening to see how they play. He's familiar with the basics of tabletop RPGs (character classes, rolling dice to hit, moving miniatures around a map, etc.), so I think he'll pick up Heroica quickly even though, at five, he's a bit younger than the recommended age of seven-plus.