Does Stranger Things 4 get D&D right? #hellfireclub

Best moment, is when Eddie bows to the camera and says "and THAT is why we play". Clearly directed at the audience.

When Erica rolled the nat 20 and Eddie said "that's why we play." made me so happy. The worst trope is the player vs dm and there not even a hint of it in the scene.

Regardless of any errors in game timeline or game play, this was D&D done right. Everyone was invested in the game and had a great time. The DM was happy when the good guys won. The players encouraged each other. This is the heart and soul of table top rpgs.

In 1983, all the guys in my D&D group were college athletes with girlfriends. I never thought D&D was a game for nerds but that it was a game for anybody who wanted to utilize their imagination.

My favorite was when he said, "VECNA LIVES!!!" It was like an homage to the adventure by the same name ^~^ I think that was dropped as a line on purpose.

I grew up in a little town. The outcasts, metalheads, nerds, etc were the DnD players. My mom made me keep my books in my car because she didn't want "Satan" in her house. We played in garages, basements, and later at others houses.

Erica: rolls a nat 20 to hit Vecna Eddie: Great! Roll damage Erica: rolls eight 1s

I loved the Eddie DM scene. While it didn't truly represent any session that I've been a part of, it did remind me of the best moments over years of playing. I was fortunate to have connected with a really good DM.

In all fairness, they only showed the highlight reel of the basketball game too... It may leave people with the impression that all high school basketball players are good and wins always come down to a dramatic last second shot at the buzzer.... They didn't show the players who were benched or the times when the basketball game was at a stalemate :P The huddle was to suggest D&D was just as much a sport to them as the basketball game was to them. It only showed the exciting moments of both to make a visual simile. It's the filmmaker's way of saying the D&D game was just as important as another person's basketball game. It was just how people viewed them differently. Neither one is the end-all-be-all of what matters... They are both the same thing to the respective people involved. That's why the D&D group in the show also had their own jerseys to wear when they played. That was on purpose too. That's the filmmaker being poetic. He rolled a 20 in the basketball game in the same way as his little sister made the final shot at the buzzer in the D&D game. ☺

To be fair its a 5 mins scene , kinda hard to really show everything aspect of what D&D is about in this short time . personally find this super cool they included AD&D in the show . :)

I am 58 years old and played D&D since 1977 (I skipped 4e). The reality of growing up in the late 70s-80s and playing D&D was nothing like Stranger Things. Being a nerd or geek was not socially acceptable back then and my group would NEVER go tell anyone outside our group that we played. We were already outside the cool kids club, so we didn’t feel the need to tell anyone for fear of being more of a social outcast. It is great today, that geek culture is populate and acceptable!

What I love the most about this scene is Eddie's behaviour and reaction to his players. Such a wholesome DM

It's important to remember that this was the climax of Eddie's D&D campaign. The grand finale of the fantasy story.

The Eye and Hand of Vecna were also mentioned in the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide published in 1979. You'll find them on page 157 along with the Sword of Kas on page 161.

Eddie is a clone of myself from that era. Ha. About the huddle. Yes, in the early years of the game, players were seen doing this. The DMs were more in a role of trying to kill your group. They were designing hard dungeons. While happy when you succeeded, they were still designing a series of corridors that were meant for the players to really think about, right down to the marking stones. Today's game is much more story-based than survival. During the time, we had to get through the Satanic Panic to play. I think Stranger Things was pretty accurate on the difficulty of getting players. Some people thought it was for geeks or anti-socials, others believed it was for the demon-worshiping sort. Most people stayed away from it. Many just didn't "get it." No sports player was playing it unless they were really able to hide it. Still, most did not want to. The grownups did look down on it. It was on the news, preached against in community services in a negative light. So coaches would mirror the distaste to their kids, regularly.

The best part of the game is that even if the dm is making it hard to the point the players call it befro the game jokingly sadistic but you see eddy celanrate the the victory we the players he is happy that they overcame the deadly challange he said

I started playing in 1987. I was introduced to it from a fellow Marine, so it was all fellow Marines that made up my first D&D group. I know there was a D&D club in high school, but that was for the "smart" kids. Stranger Things is a great show and I think they did well in portraying D&D. Nice video

My first set of Chessex dice looked just like those black and red ones in the scene. I got them in 1986 and ST season 4 is in 1986

I played D&D during the 80’s starting in 83.The types of people shown playing g it in Stranger things is correct,they’re not just using stereotypes,back then it wasn’t popular or cool to play ,you definitely wouldn’t have the popular kids and jock types playing in,not here in the U.K. anyway,the scene is as completely different back then to what it’s like now and the change is for the better.Luckily here in the U.K. we didn’t have the satanic panic thing,it just seemed ridiculous from over here.

Holy crap I forgot about this channel for 6 years and I'm so sorry. You were the first resource I ever watched when I was trying to get into DnD and got designated forever DM by getting my friends into it! Your "how to play dnd" videos were my very first resource back during stranger things season 1 and I'm so grateful for your content! Notification bell on from now on!