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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?

 

[Dausuul]

Pfft. Is that supposed to be 1980s-era D&D as played by 1980s-era teenagers? That's a full-fledged battlemat with real minis! Where's the M&Ms and graph paper?

 

[Umbran]

Pfft. Is that supposed to be 1980s-era D&D as played by 1980s-era teenagers?

It is real 80s D&D played by real 80s teenagers, in much the same way as they are being beset by a real 80s-era extraplanar eldritch horror, and defending themselves with real 80s-era psionic powers...

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

It is real 80s D&D played by real 80s teenagers, in much the same as they are being beset by a real 80s-era extraplanar eldritch horror, and defending themselves with real 80s-era psionic powers...

There are limits even to suspension of disbelief you know..

 

[sevenbastard]

As an 80s middle schooler we had miniatures. Poorly painted, but we had them. I think I got my first chessex vinyl Matt around 92 or 93 but I am not sure when they were invited.

 

[Yenrak]

We played in the 1980s with plenty of minis and battlemats we ruined with magic markers.

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

As an 80s middle schooler we had miniatures. Poorly painted, but we had them. I think I got my first chessex vinyl Matt around 92 or 93 but I am not sure when they were invited My first "campaign," aroung 91-92,

Oh! Same! My first "campaign" (as opposed to Scout Camp-O-Ree one-shots), buying and painting our own mini was the price of admission. This would have been sometime between 90 and 92, I'm sure.

 

[BookTenTiger]

It is real 80s D&D played by real 80s teenagers, in much the same as they are being beset by a real 80s-era extraplanar eldritch horror, and defending themselves with real 80s-era psionic powers...

That's where the show lost me... The Eldritch horrors look nothing like the Eldritch horrors that used to haunt me in the 80's...

 

[overgeeked]

Pfft. Is that supposed to be 1980s-era D&D as played by 1980s-era teenagers? That's a full-fledged battlemat with real minis! Where's the M&Ms and graph paper?

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.

 

[BookTenTiger]

I have to say, as crazy as the sci fi elements can be, last season's story about Will trying to get his distracted friends to play D&D felt very close to my own childhood (and, who am I kidding, adulthood).