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[julienghost]

D&D + Stranger Things rant (aka stupid nerd rant)

I've been into/playing D&D since I was about 9 or 10 yrs old and there is something about the terminology that Stranger Things uses that pmo. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about anything bc to be fair I was not alive when the original or first editions came out but I'm going off what I know.

Spoilers ahead for anyone not finished.

So the first season starts in 1983, at which point original D&D (1974) and AD&D 1st edition (1977) [along with Holmes Basic Set, Moldvay B/X sets, and Mentzer BECMI sets] were released. AD&D 2nd edition wouldn't be released until 1989 so that doesn't matter considering that's when the finale takes place [and other D&D related guides would come out later as well]. There were also supplements and even magazines that added more to the game editions, which I will assume that the group had access to or used when they played (to be fair to them).

The main thing that bugs me is the classes that they mention in the show. I'm gonna try and make everything make sense so for anything in the base edition of each book with be regular and anything from supplements or extra bits will be in italics (and any sub-classes will be in parentheses). Original: cleric, fighting-man, magic-user, paladin, thief, assassin, monk, druid. 1st edition: bard, cleric (druid), fighter (paladin, ranger), magic-user (illusionist), monk, thief (assassin), cavalier (paladin), fighter (barbarian), thief (acrobat). There were a few other classes from things such as "Oriental Adventures," "Dragonlance Adventures," and D&D basic set but they just prove the same point I'm trying to make here: no one used words like wizard or sorcerer to refer to their character's class in D&D.

The only exclusion to this is that sorcerer was what someone would call a 9th level magic-user, but it wasn't a separate class until the 3rd edition which came out in 2000. So for Mike to constantly be correcting people to call Will a sorcerer doesn't really make since because it's not like they're talking about separate classes (I could understand if it was him wanting them to respect his level being 9 or something, but it's just because they were calling him a different class). A class which wouldn't have event existed at that point. Wizards became a term in the 2nd edition of D&D, which (again) wouldn't have been released yet.

I think a reasonable fix to this is that they liked to play homebrew campaigns so all the classes were made up and though that is reasonable to assume given the circumstances... why wouldn't they have called Will a warlock then?

Will and Henry are both warlocks (having their powers given to them through a deal with the mind-flayer [whether consensual or not]), El would be the sorcerer in this case (though her powers were gained by receiving Henry's blood, she uses them as if they were her own. Not needing Henry or the Mind-Flayer for them to work, unlike Will and Henry). So if they're going to ignore the fact that wizard wasn't a term yet (and sorcerer wasn't it's own class) why still choose the wrong classes for them?

Once again I could have gotten things wrong here because I wasn't even born when the original and 1st editions of D&D came out, but it will still forever peeve me that they call Will a sorcerer when he's actually a warlock.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Reblog if you love “—” and have never used ChatGPT

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

Maybe the real Stranger Things were the psychoses we developed along the way.

[byler-bitch]

As I've said earlier: Even if the Duffers are absolutely vile for doing this to us, I refuse to let them ruin something that has brought me so much joy for so many years. I will simply not trust them with it ever again. I will live completely in the fandom, which is where the joy always came from anyway

[julienghost]

mmm nothing burger 🤤🤤

[julienghost]

byler proof (canon)

i had a dream that i was mike and will wordlessly confessed his love and mike felt the same way.

no words were exchanged, just a mutual understanding. i felt what it was like to be a repressed gay man in love with his best friend (and it was kinda beautiful).

[batmancurated]

detective comics covers by evan cagle

[chameshida]

Spider-Furies!

[julienghost]

my life is complete 🙏

[grickle14]

Dracula and Nosferatu carpooling.

[bruiiiiiiii]

father to son