“Something is coming. Something hungry for blood. A shadow grows on the wall behind you, swallowing you in darkness. It is almost here.”

The first dialogue spoken in Netflix’s “ Stranger Things ,” 12-year-old Mike Wheeler’s (Finn Wolfhard) scene-setting for a fictional attack he’s about to unleash on friends Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) and Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin) in his basement, immediately establishes what is inarguably the show’s most iconic product tie-in: “Dungeons & Dragons.”

The influence the iconic table-top roleplaying game has had on Matt and Ross Duffer’s ’80s-set, sci-fi phenomenon is undeniable, both in terms of how often the game itself is played throughout the show, and the classic monsters and villains it has inspired within t

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