These were the best moments of the Stranger Things D&D playthrough


Netflix has been a busy little nerd this entire week, with five days’ worth of promotions for Geeked Week,

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the network’s yearly celebration of all things dorky and good available or upcoming on the platform.

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One of the more amusing and highly watchable promotions was an hour and a half long

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real-time Dungeons & Dragons playthrough featuring Stranger Things stars

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Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Priah Ferguson, and Joseph Quinn.

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All four actors were, despite their onscreen personas, practically noobs when it came to the game.

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Thankfully, experienced Dungeon master B. Dave Walters was there to give

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them a helping hand. That didn’t keep the party from escaping every pitfall though.

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Joseph Quinn quickly bonded with one of the adventure’s first NPC (A non-player character played

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