D&D: WotC Announces Another Stranger Things Boxed Set – ‘Welcome To The Hellfire Club’
WotC announced a new Stranger Things boxed set, Welcome to the Hellfire Club, coming just in time for the new season later this year.
D&D owes a lot to Stranger Things. The incredibly popular show kicked off a wave of 80s nostalgia nearly a decade ago. More importantly, it brought D&D to the public eye in a big way. Of course, there’s more than just one show behind D&D’s meteoric rise—but the impact was palpable enough that we’ve gotten a few different Stranger Things crossovers. Including a new one announced just in time for season 5: Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club.
D&D Revisits Stranger Things in Welcome to the Hellfire Club
The crossover features Eddie Munson, one of the breakout characters from Season 4. DM of the show’s Hellfire Club and an absolutely killer guitarist, Eddie Munson won hearts and minds with his arc in Season 4. And the Stranger Things D&D boxed set looks to pay homage to that.
As you might expect, the whole thing is done up in 80s style (though with modern D&D mechanics). Inside you’ll find a set of four adventures, each of which connects to one of Stranger Things‘ extant four seasons. You’ll find familiar creatures, including Demobats, Demodogs, and a “brand-new” member of the Stranger Things monster family, according to reporting from Entertainment Weekly who first broke the news.
Alongside the adventures, you’ll find a “welcome letter” from Eddie Munson, a quick-start guide, pregen sheets for five characters across three levels of play, and a whole bunch of character and monster tokens, as well as cards for items, monsters, and spells. Cards, as a concept, seems to be something that WotC is embracing in their boxed sets. Everything gets a card. Got a piece of gear? Here’s a card. Dwarf? Card.
But you’ll also find poster maps and handouts, and all sorts of Stranger Things goodies, including what Entertainment Weekly describes as a map of “Greyhawkins.”
“Each adventure also comes with its individual poster-sized map and handout, but the piece de resistance is a double-sided poster depicting “Greyhawkins” which is Eddie’s imagined realm from Stranger Things where these adventures take place. The Greyhawkins map will be included on the back of a Hellfire Clube poster.”
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club releases October 7th, which means you’ll have just enough time to play through the adventures before the first part of the fifth season premiers on November 26th. And certainly by the time the series wraps up on New Year’s Eve.
Greyhawkins is good, but have you considered the Hawkinsword Coast?
