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?
I was reading an old issue of Dragon magazine I picked up (#88) and saw the following add, which seemed germane:
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There was another store in that era that sold RPG stuff in NYC. It was called Forbidden Planet. It was excellent. I loved the chaos of Compleat Strategist, which seemed to have the most popular games crammed in the hardest to get to corners while putting really oddball war games—play the Soccer War—right up front.Look, they had battlemats when I started gaming in '83 or '84, but we were just a bunch of kids -- nobody had the money to buy a mat and have it shipped to New Jersey, and there weren't any stores that sold roleplaying games that also carried those specialty items around here. The first time I was able to get one was when I was in college and could get to the Compleat Strategist in NYC.
I guess Forbidden Planet sold game stuff? I went there for comics, books, and the like. Really, that was the only place to go if you wanted some weird European cyberpunk graphic novel. I loved that place!There was another store in that era that sold RPG stuff in NYC. It was called Forbidden Planet. It was excellent. I loved the chaos of Compleat Strategist, which seemed to have the most popular games crammed in the hardest to get to corners while putting really oddball war games—play the Soccer War—right up front.