D&D 5E Stranger Things D&D Starter Set For Free

Hasbro is offering the Stranger Things Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set rulebook for free download as a PDF.

It's the 23-page book which came in the Stranger Things boxed set a few years ago and contains the basic rules of the game. The boxed set also came with other materials which aren't included here--adventure book, 5 Stranger Things character sheets, 6 dice, Demogorgon figure, and paintable Demogorgon figure.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Corporations are run by humans (at the moment). Why would it surprise you that a human in one department does something differently to a human in a different department?

Because they both report to another human who probably could get them all on the same page. If putting stuff in PDF is an existential threat to their business, they should stop doing it. If it's not, they should start embracing the additional revenue stream and increase monetization.

 

[bedir than]

Because they both report to another human who probably could get them all on the same page. If putting stuff in PDF is an existential threat to their business, they should stop doing it. If it's not, they should start embracing the additional revenue stream and increase monetization.

It's just the rules in pdf. You can still download the Basic Rules as a pdf.

There's no policy violation

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Because they both report to another human who probably could get them all on the same page. If putting stuff in PDF is an existential threat to their business, they should stop doing it. If it's not, they should start embracing the additional revenue stream and increase monetization.

Hasbro releasing PDFs of boardgame rules (which they have been doing for many years) is neither an existential threat nor a revenue stream. It's just customer service for people who can't find the rules to the game they bought.

 

[Voadam]

Huh. I was expecting this to be just unlocking it for free on D&D Beyond, rather than a PDF.

Does this mark a change for 5E? PDFs of current edition stuff has largely been a no-no.

WotC has done a few but not a lot of 5e PDFs.

I prefer PDFs to DDB.

I take this as a positive.