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Post by Finarvyn on Feb 14, 2019 13:07:09 GMT -6
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Post by tdenmark on Jul 28, 2020 7:20:26 GMT -6
Apparently this comes out in May and I assume it will be a 5E product. I like the notion that it's "written" by one of the characters and has a Demogorgon mini. Also, sounds like Mike's campaign notes are a part of it? Could be fun! Maybe I'm the only one that got this. My daughters love Stranger Things and begged me to get this. It is not as good as I hoped. The demogorgon mini is alright. The book itself is a thin primer to 5e and "Mike's campaign" is pretty generic. I spiced it up by adding a whole Upside Down component. It makes me want to make a little retro-clone inspired by 80's tropes playing kids with unique powers escaped from a government secret program.
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Post by asaki on Jul 28, 2020 11:00:06 GMT -6
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Post by jeffb on Jul 28, 2020 12:56:42 GMT -6
And Kids on Bikes is the new cool flavor of the past year. Love the show, but conveying the realities of living in the time period to my Kids has been difficult at best. My parents grew up in the Great Depression, and while I didn't experience it, I understood the reality of the time period at a young age, and I always was into History so things like CoC were easy for me to grasp and play as a kid. When you have to explain a phone booth, no cable TV, vacuum tubes, a cassette player, 8 track and records to them, Home computers of the time, no internet, world politics, you realize you will have to do far more work explaining to them why their PC's can't do this or do that than playing the game. That's my experience anyway.Now my son- nearly 21 gets it, but as a kid- nope. My 9 yo old girl- nope. I doubt she will at 20 either But good luck!
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Post by Finarvyn on Jul 28, 2020 13:58:06 GMT -6
Yeah, I was kind of bummed by this product. The demagorgon minis were really tiny and the adventure felt pretty generic and not the same adventure that they were running on the show.
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Post by asaki on Jul 28, 2020 17:01:26 GMT -6
And Kids on Bikes is the new cool flavor of the past year. Yeah, I have that one too, and vs. Stranger Stuff, but they're intentionally way different from D&D. So I thought he'd be more into DP&D (plus it has a lot more expansions).
The other ones have a lot of cool ideas in them, though.
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Post by tdenmark on Jul 29, 2020 3:54:48 GMT -6
Yeah, I was kind of bummed by this product. The demagorgon minis were really tiny and the adventure felt pretty generic and not the same adventure that they were running on the show. Yeah, how cool would it have been to get a map of Hawkins, the caves and stuff under the town, nearby abandoned factories and haunted places, and the government installation filled with lots of experiments gone wrong, strange creatures kept in the labs, and 5e rules for rolling up kids with unique powers and abilities.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 15:17:17 GMT -6
I bought this a while back out of curiosity and it seems like a far inferior product to the original D&D 5e starter set, or the D&D Essentials set. Feels like a shameless cash grab to exploit the popularity of the tv show without a lot of thought put into the adventure.
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Post by hamurai on Jul 30, 2020 0:30:32 GMT -6
Agreed, it's a cash grab and not worth getting unless you collect everything D&D. I hope to sell it to a collector at some point
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Post by tdenmark on Jul 30, 2020 9:19:11 GMT -6
I bought this a while back out of curiosity and it seems like a far inferior product to the original D&D 5e starter set, or the D&D Essentials set. Feels like a shameless cash grab to exploit the popularity of the tv show without a lot of thought put into the adventure. The cashier working at the game store even warned me. But, my daughters asked for it and you know...anything for my little girls. Plus anything to get them to play D&D with their old dad
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