One roll die or win scenarios where only the wizard does anything

>they constantly refer to Demogorgon as "the Demogorgon"

It should've been a Dread Wraith

Should've been an encounter balanced to last more than a single action and involve more than one player.

Yeah, I like how it showed how it taught things like teamwork and problem solving, which is something it rarely is given credit for.

Did you not play D&D in the '80's? Being that age at that time, seemed pretty accurate to me.

>dustin always knew what was coming up
That's because Dustin is Veeky Forums incarnate.
Also a fucking lolifag.

He is a kid?

Actually the description of the arrival was pretty cool, expecially the roar thing.
It was the kind of GM intrusion on character that contributes to the scene

It was a pretty common mistake and became an inside joke back in the days

Really disappointing show. The kids were cool, the cop was ok, but bland and all the other characters were annoying. Maybe it's because the last show I watched was twink peaks, but stranger things is so much worse in basically every way, it don't get wzy it's hyped so much.
To keep it tg-related: I actually liked the kids behavior and problem solving. They add a nice bright touch to the rather dark setting. Might be a good idea to have the PCs in a investigation/horror campaign be children next time.

it has only 8 episodes man.

I actually really liked the girl/guy interaction, expecially how they get back in the end

It's supposed to be a world with rules, while twin peaks is a mystery from the start to the end.

>he didn't like Johnathon
shit taste
I know, but it's fun to bag on people actually having fun or at least pretending to for a TV show.
And yeah, that's something he's great at.
>you will never play with an older, more character and story interested Michael
kek I was thinking that, probably knew the monster manual cover to cover. Fucking little grognard.

>twink peaks
I don't think that's a Christian show.

Stranger things is no mystery at all though. It's a generic horror plot strechted to the length of a smaller show, without adding any actual horror depth. They just bloat it up woth all the relationship shit that has no relation to the stroy whatsoever. And while the part of mother is annoying as fuck, at least it makes sense most of the time. The teenager part is just dogshit to cater to the depicted audience.

>Has friends who will come over and play with him, for hours on end.
>Friends who, incidentally, go to incredible lengths for one another.
>They have simple, concise practices for getting over fights in and out of character.
>They all love the game, are having fun and making great stories together.

Sounds like he's GMing right, user.

If everyone's having fun, then he's doing an amazing job.

>They just bloat it up woth all the relationship shit that has no relation to the stroy whatsoever.

>Character development and relationships have no place in a show!
>I don't want to care about the characters! Give me jump scares and screams!

I like character development, especially the kids are great. The teenager stuff just feels forced and adds nothing to the horror/mystery. Why not build up atmosphere more instead of generic teenage romance? It's the wrong board to discuss this, but it bothers me so much because one half of the show is really fucking good, while the other half is pure cancer.

The point of the scene is to illustrate Will's choice to fireball instead of protect - to gamble instead of playing it safe.

There was no need, from a storytelling point of view, to introduce needless complexities to a viewing audience unlikely to be interested

>Why not build up atmosphere more instead of generic teenage romance? It's the wrong board to discuss this, but it bothers me so much because one half of the show is really fucking good, while the other half is pure cancer.

Generic teenage romance?

Dude, that romance was about as ungeneric as it gets.

Unless
>Girl dates Dudebro
>Geek has crush on girl
>Dudebro bullies geek
>Girl spends time with geek
>Dudebro realise that, no dude, you are the dudebro
>Dudebro tries to make reparations with the Geek
>Girl stays with Dudebro and befriends Geek

Is somehow generic in the shows that you watch?

Not to mention
>Dudebro realizes his friends are completely poisonous and drops them like a rock

Jonathan is not a Geek, he would be considered a Freak.

Steve was half Dudebro half Bad Influence, but in the end he realized what he looked like to other people and decided to be an adult for most likely the first time in his life.

Precisely. It was a great bit of character development. You could argue that, in the grand scheme of the first season it was unnecessary, but Dudebro is clearly a main character for the show as a whole and will probably continue to be so for the next season.

The best part of the show is after the first monster encounter.
Sleeping next to each other with a gun under the pillow with the lights on.

Yeah they kind of brushed over the fact that if a single encounter is all it takes to sleep with your lights on then Will should have nigh incurable PTSD from spending about a week in The Upside Down

Yeah, I just was muh wrong fun for the sake of a thread.
Holy shit those fuckin reparation procedures though, they've got their shit together
>whoever starts shit has to fix it

d-did you not watch the last 10 minutes? He was either phasing between worlds or had MAJOR fucking ptsd and was kinda faking having it together for his family's sake

>I actually liked how D&D was represented in the show.
>D&D
sigh

No but I mean he should have been full on Winona Rider levels of panicked about everything around him. He would not be able to handle his shit in just about any instance he's in post Upside Down.

Name a better RPG that was out in the time the show was meant to represent (the mid-'80s).

Traveller

I think they showed the cover at some point in the last episode, but I think it's fair to just call it D&D.

>the show was meant to represent
they weren't playing sci-fi, user

There is nothing wrong with playing D&D.

I dont know who Winona Rider is, but everybody reacts differently to stress and insanity.
I don't have a psychology major, but putting on a mask and pretending everything is okay, is a way to handle with stress.
That is what I personally did when my granny died, until I broke down into an emotional wreck.

Kids are pretty resilient, and he's got a strong support base to help him pull together.

But yeah, even with all that the fact he was roleplaying with his friends so soon after all that shit is...stunning.

He has seen the dark truth which lies under the veil of ignorance that surrounds his world, and he stared at it without blinking.

Kid probably reads a lot of Lovecraft.

Bounded accuracy

Maybe it's just that he recognized it as no more or less true than the everyday world we live in. His mother and brother still loved him and were looking for him. That's real. Listening to the Clash with his big bro? That's real too. Yeah, there's monsters, but those kids proved there are heroes too.

It's not Lovecraft, it's closer to Howard.

...

That sounds so much like a gay porno parody I'm not gonna google that, ever.

Why don't you list some things that are wrong with playing D&D instead of showing off your collection of pony-related screenshots?

That should be titled "The wrongest man who ever lived"

It wasn't supposed to be a mystery. It was a love letter to the 1980s.

The adults are in a thriller; a kid has gone missing and then there's a murder, and another missing kid and they have to find out what's threatening their sleepy little town.

The teenagers are in a monster movie, wondering what evil thing has started picking people off, and how they can fight it.

The kids are in The Goonies, with some Stephen King thrown in.

Will's also a badass. Barb died within a couple days and he lasted in the Upside-Down for a week without the Demogorgon getting him. Will don't fuck around.

Winona Rider is the actress who played the mom.

Plus Will owning up to his character having died got me immediately invested in him. I'd go to hell and back for a player that honest.

>a couple of days
Try a couple of minutes.

That scene honestly really bugged me. It was just so blatant who was going to get picked off.

On the other hand you have Steve, who basically spent the entire second half of the show vaulting death flags like an Olympic gymnast.

They played Menzer Expert d&d right? Blue cover art.

The confrontation with the monster at the house was the fucking best. Steve in the back, flipping his shit because he didn't even have a hint of anything supernatural until a giant rape monster was trying to kill him. Nobody ever actually told him what the fuck was going on.

Then actually getting some hits in on that thing and driving it off.

Yeah, I love how each of the three layers of story had its own feel but they still wove them all together into a consistent whole.

Then again, I can also see why someone who intensely dislikes one of the three tiers would find it to spoil the show overall. It being well executed doesn't help if you straight up hate that sort of thing.