D&D General Stranger Things Image of a D&D Game

The new Stranger Things season 4 promo video dropped with a cool quick scene of their D&D game! Not much to see but the old classic pitted dice. Anyone have a clue about the minis depicted?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I guess here we could talk about artistic licence. There are miniatures because these visually help better to tell the story. It is like when in an action-live production set in other decade certain furnitures are showed in the house, but in that age they are too expensive for characters from that social class.

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Not totally off-topic:

A Popular Fantasy Series Is Getting A Television Adaptation

One Word Kill is getting a full television adaptation. The popular young adult series should translate very well to the small screen

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A Popular Fantasy Series Is Getting A Television Adaptation​

The show spans all three books in the Impossible Times trilogy — One Word Kill, Limited Wish, Dispel Illusion — released in 2019. Mark Lawrence’s YA series tells the curiously confounding case of Nick Hayes, a teen prodigy who spends his every waking moment playing Dungeons & Dragons with friends. He begins reassessing life and everything he has worked toward when he is diagnosed with leukemia at 15; the prognosis is abysmal. He is not expected to live much longer.

Then, fate intervenes: a girl named Mia joins Nick’s D&D group and she is as entrancing as she is a mystery. It would have been your standard “boy meets girl, boy falls for girl” storyline if not for world-ending shenanigans suddenly taking over. A man reveals Mia is in danger..

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If "Stranger Things" helped to promote the brand of D&D, what do you think about the future Hasbro's strategy for "product emplacement" in the main media? What should be the next Hasbro's choices after the end of the five-year partnership deal with Paramount?

 

[Von Ether]

I started in '84 and that's how we've always played. Maps and minis from day one.

I'm just curious why they're rolling a d6, d8, and a d10 together.

Obviously a house rule where on round one, you roll you initiative, damage and to-hit roll all at once. In the player's excitement, he grabbed a d10 instead of a d20.

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

Are we fantasizing here or are we actually trying to rationalize why this combination of dice are being tossed?

 

[J.Quondam]

Are we fantasizing here or are we actually trying to rationalize why this combination of dice are being tossed?

I think we're rationafantasizing.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I'm just shocked they have d10s. In 1984, all my group had were d20s, and you colored in half the numbers...

 

[LordEntrails]

I'm just curious why they're rolling a d6, d8, and a d10 together.

Let's get real, it's because the Director thought rolling one die was not visually interesting enough.

As for the battlemat, I'm sure the government would given them anything they wanted to keep them occupied and from exploring the facility any more!

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

Also, they are way older now. It might be 1994.

 

[sevenbastard]

I'm just curious why they're rolling a d6, d8, and a d10 together.

Obviously he is hit an invisible foe. He doesn't know the size so he is rolling damage for both a medium and large creature. Also he isn't sure if it is wearing a helmet with its armor so he is rolling to see if he hits the unprotected head just in case.

Rather simple if you know the rules of AD&D.

 

[pogre]

I started in '84 and that's how we've always played. Maps and minis from day one.

I'm just curious why they're rolling a d6, d8, and a d10 together.

I have not watched the preview, but perhaps they are rolling to hit and damage in one go. It was common in the old days to roll a d6 and a d10 together to create a d20 - 1-3 on the d6 gives you 1-10 and 4-6 on the d6 gives you 11-20. The d8 is just a damage die.

As I recall this was more of a thing in the 70s than the 80s though...

 

[overgeeked]

I have not watched the preview, but perhaps they are rolling to hit and damage in one go. It was common in the old days to roll a d6 and a d10 together to create a d20 - 1-3 on the d6 gives you 1-10 and 4-6 on the d6 gives you 11-20. The d8 is just a damage die.

As I recall this was more of a thing in the 70s than the 80s though...

Huh. I have never seen that. Interesting. Like I said, I started in '84 and we were lucky enough to have 2-3 hobby shops nearby so we could get things like minis and all the funky dice.