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THE TRUTH ABOUT: 8 | History Defined

Dungeons & Dragons is killing off the word ‘race’ and replacing it with ‘species’

Owner Wizards of the Coast says the word ‘race’ has negative connotations.

Evening Standard

From satanic panic to billion-dollar business: how Dungeons & Dragons conquered the world

A role-playing game born half a century ago in a Wisconsin basement has spawned an empire spanning film, TV and YouTube. How did it leave its mark on Stranger Things, ET and everyone from Stephen King to Elon Musk?

The Guardian - UK

She Kills Monsters: Hunter Drama explores fantasy, 90s nostalgia and teen belonging

The play deals with themes common to adolescents including sexuality, gender and family dynamics.

Newcastle Herald

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'D&D: Honor Among Thieves' won't "alienate" newcomers, filmmakers promise

At Comic-Con, co-directors Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, and producer Jeremy Latcham reveal how they found a story in a game about a million of them.

Inverse

'Dungeons and Dragons' Comic-Con panel reveals crucial new details the trailer doesn’t show

At the first Comic-Con panel in Hall H since 2019, Paramount brought the goods with the trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves from Paramount Pictures — and a whole lot more.

Inverse

'Stranger Things' Season 4 nails a sinister, real-life 1980s controversy

The false link in the show between Dungeons and Dragons and an occult conspiracy is based on real history.

Inverse

‘Satanic worship, sodomy, murder’: How Stranger Things revived the Satanic Panic of the ’80s

Stranger Things revives many parts of the 1980s relevant to our times. The American Satanic Panic is a less welcome but important callback.

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Once more into the upside down

Six years ago, Matt and Ross Duffer whipped up a perfect streaming video dessert, low on nutrition but high in sweet pop culture calories. Season 1 of their Netflix series Stranger Things was an expertly assembled and precisely calibrated souffle of Generation X nostalgia, Spielbergian family melodrama and more intense-than-expected…

Bangkok Post

Listen up! Here are the finalists of the 2022 Student Podcast Challenge

The 2,400 podcast submissions for NPR's contest offer a rare glimpse into the minds of young people.

WEKU

Vecna? 'Stranger Things' Season 4’s new villain blows its multiverse wide open

'Stranger Things' Season 4's main villain is named after one powerful 'Dungeons & Dragons' antagonist. Here's everything fans of the Netflix series need to know about Vecna.

Inverse

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