D&D's October Product Revealed to Be Stranger Things Tie-In

[Von Ether]

Well, the 1E screen had the to-hit and saving throw tables. You needed a screen unless you wanted to keep flipping through the DMG constantly.

WotC D&D, thankfully, has gone with a unified resolution system, which gets rid of most of the real estate of the AD&D screens.

I still have fondness for that first amazing screen -- and would love it if WotC republished their 5E screen with the 1E art -- but I'd rather have a world where a screen is an optional purchase, rather than essentially a necessity.

According to some friends of mine who still play AD&D and Battletech, not memorizing dozens of charts is for losers.

P.S. Some people get offended if their system mastery is undermined.

 

[darjr]

Some folks are getting their Stranger Things boxed sets.

 

[darjr]

Helfire club unboxing Unboxing DnD WELCOME TO THE HELLFIRE CLUB Netflix Stranger Things

 

[Parmandur]

Helfire club unboxing Unboxing DnD WELCOME TO THE HELLFIRE CLUB Netflix Stranger Things

Really fun aesthetics in there. The dice look solid, and the cards and standees can be repurposed pretty well.

 

[Clint_L]

Yeah, I'm loving the old school style art. This seems like a really great starter set, which along with the Borderlands set gives us two quality starter sets being released at virtually the same time. That's a bit surprising, but maybe you can't have too much of a good thing.

 

[Nikosandros]

Is this being marketed at a different segment than the HotB set or as an alternative to it?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, I'm loving the old school style art. This seems like a really great starter set, which along with the Borderlands set gives us two quality starter sets being released at virtually the same time. That's a bit surprising, but maybe you can't have too much of a good thing.

I wouldn't call this a starter set. It doesn't appear to have the words "starter" or "beginner" on the box so far as I can see, and it's directly targeted at people who played D&D in the 80s. Nor does it seem to be presented in such a way as to be a teaching tool. At most it's an update on current rules for folk who haven't played for 40 years.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I’ve just got back from the supermarket, and there is Stranger Things plastered all over pretty much everything. I think what this is is part of a Netflix marketing blitz, payed for by Netflix in order to get their branding displayed in book, toy and game shops.

Franchise Model.

 

[Burnside]

I received this yesterday; happy to answer questions about it.

 

[Nikosandros]

I received this yesterday; happy to answer questions about it.

How does it present itself? Is it an intro to D&D for beginners? A way to capture back old lapsed players? A way to try something a little different for current players? Something else?