Over the past decade, Dungeons & Dragons has gone from a nerdy niche tangled up with a satanic panic to a mainstream IP where a bunch of nerds can sell out Madison Square Garden playing it. Stranger Things’ kids on bikes helped shed a positive, post-satanic-panic light on the game, and its popularity has only grown since. Plenty of folks, myself included, played it for the first time over Roll20, and plenty more got to experience D&D through Baldur’s Gate 3, 2023’s Game of the Year (and contender for game of the century).

But before Stranger Things, Roll20, and Baldur’s Gate 3, Dungeons & Dragons enjoyed decades of adaptations and multimedia projects, from several novels to 2000’s bomb of a live-action film.

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