Stranger Things Cast to Play Holiday-Themed D&D Game

Stranger Things Cast to Play Holiday-Themed D&D Game

Break out the d20.

By Adel Ankers | IGN
Staff | GRIMTVR

Several Stranger Things cast members are coming together to play a special holiday-themed game of Dungeons & Dragons on December 18.

Wizards of the Coast has announced that WotC Principal Story Designer, Chris Perkins, will be hosting a special session of D&D on the Stranger Things YouTube channel on Friday at 10am PT. The adventure will see David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, and Natalia Dyer picking up the d20 dice to try their hand at the popular roleplaying game that has become intrinsically linked to the Netflix show.

The trailer shows that this session of D&D wasn't filmed in Wheeler's basement. Instead, WotC shot the game using a SOLO Cinebot, a first-of-its-kind robotic camera, which allowed the fully remote team to capture the event in cinematic-quality while adhering to the ongoing social distancing measures that have been set out as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Of course, D&D plays a huge role in Netflix's Stranger Things. From the very first game we see the young friends playing together in Season 1, to Will's efforts to keep the campaign going with his friends in the show's third season, and even to the official tie-in Stranger Things D&D Starter Set, the game has become an integral part of the show and its characters.

So much so that, outside of the red game box, the Stranger Things squad actually appear to play out a very similar sort of campaign in their real lives. We think that the friends' heroics to defeat a monster and save a village goes far beyond the tabletop game, with the third season's references, parallels, and homages playing out like one huge, terrifying session of D&D.