Welcome to the Hellfire Club takes a joke from inside Stranger Things and turns it into something you can actually buy and play. Eddie Munson’s Dungeons & Dragons campaigns were always described in the show as elaborate and unfinished — and in 2025, Wizards of the Coast and the Duffer Brothers built a real product around finally completing them.
Table of Contents
- What Welcome to the Hellfire Club actually is
- How the Duffer Brothers were involved in making it
- What’s inside the box and how it plays
- How this compares to the show’s earlier D&D tie-in
- Frequently asked questions about Welcome to the Hellfire Club
What Welcome to the Hellfire Club actually is
Welcome to the Hellfire Club is an officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons product released by Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast on October 7, 2025, built entirely around the in-show mythology of Eddie Munson’s Hellfire Club from Stranger Things season 4. According to the product’s own framing, the box represents Eddie’s “final campaign,” left unfinished after his death in the season 4 finale — until Wizards of the Coast stepped in to complete it for real-world players.
The set is a collaborative board game designed for 3 to 6 players plus a Dungeon Master, sold as a physical boxed product alongside a digital adventure pack available through D&D Beyond, with an Ultimate Bundle combining both formats along with exclusive digital extras like an Upside Down-themed dice set and map pack.
How the Duffer Brothers were involved in making it
Welcome to the Hellfire Club wasn’t simply a licensed skin slapped onto an existing D&D product — Wizards of the Coast worked directly with the Duffer Brothers and Netflix throughout development. Dungeons & Dragons franchise creative director Kara Kenna has said the project gave the design team a genuine opportunity to dig into the game’s own history, specifically referencing 1st Edition D&D rules and style to match the era Eddie and the Hawkins kids would have actually been playing in during the 1980s.
That collaboration extended to season 5 itself. Kenna and lead designer Justice Ramin Arman have said they visited the set of Stranger Things season 5 while it was filming in Atlanta and were given “small hints” about the season’s storylines during development, though the specifics of what those hints revealed weren’t disclosed publicly.
“I really love this set, because I think it was a really fun chance to combine what is fun and amazing about ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘D&D,'” Kenna said of the collaboration.
What’s inside the box and how it plays
Welcome to the Hellfire Club includes four separate adventures tied to character levels 1 through 3, alongside maps, tokens, handouts, and rulebooks styled to look deliberately worn and tattered — as if the materials had been discovered in someone’s attic decades after Eddie originally wrote them. The included character sheets are built around the D&D personas played by Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Will in the show, with Erica Sinclair’s character, Lady Applejack, also included despite her more informal relationship to the club itself.
The adventures pull directly from the show’s creature roster, featuring encounters with Demogorgons and Demodogs alongside a brand-new monster created specifically for the set. Reviews of the product have generally praised its tactile presentation and thematic detail — one review from Tales and Tankards called the box’s Eddie Munson cover art, showing his iconic “arms-out” guitar pose surrounded by Hellfire Club imagery, an immediate standout — while noting that, as a starter-oriented product, its four adventures amount to a modest campaign rather than a lengthy standalone experience.
How this compares to the show’s earlier D&D tie-in
Welcome to the Hellfire Club is actually the second official collaboration between Dungeons & Dragons and Stranger Things. Wizards of the Coast and Netflix first partnered in April 2019 on a Stranger Things Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set, designed to introduce newcomers to fifth-edition D&D rules using a look modeled on the classic 1983 “Red Box” set. That earlier product included a 44-page rulebook, six dice, five pre-generated level 3 characters based on Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, and Eleven, and two Demogorgon miniatures.
The 2025 follow-up shifts the format toward something closer to a guided board game experience rather than a strictly traditional tabletop RPG starter kit, reflecting both the show’s growing mythology by the time of its final season and Wizards of the Coast’s broader interest in capitalizing on renewed enthusiasm for Eddie Munson’s character following actor Joseph Quinn’s rising profile. Dungeons & Dragons has publicly credited Stranger Things with significantly boosting awareness of the game among mainstream audiences in the years since the show’s debut — a fitting turn, given that D&D’s own real-world reputation was once shaped by the same kind of moral panic the show dramatized directly in its fourth season.
For more on the real 1980s moral panic against Dungeons & Dragons that Stranger Things dramatized, Read more: The Satanic Panic covers the true history behind Eddie’s persecution. And for the character whose in-show campaigns inspired this real-world product, Read more: Eddie Munson’s Death breaks down his full arc across season 4.
Variety’s coverage of the collaboration goes deeper into the development process and the team’s visit to the season 5 set, and it’s worth reading in full here.
Stranger Things 5 | Official Trailer | Netflix
Frequently asked questions about Welcome to the Hellfire Club
What is Welcome to the Hellfire Club? Welcome to the Hellfire Club is an officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons board game released in October 2025, built around the unfinished in-show campaigns of Eddie Munson’s Hellfire Club from Stranger Things season 4.
Who made Welcome to the Hellfire Club? Welcome to the Hellfire Club was made by Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast in direct partnership with the Duffer Brothers and Netflix.
How many players does Welcome to the Hellfire Club support? Welcome to the Hellfire Club is designed as a collaborative game for 3 to 6 players plus one Dungeon Master.
Is Welcome to the Hellfire Club the first Stranger Things D&D product? No. It’s the second official collaboration, following a 2019 Stranger Things Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set built around fifth-edition rules and characters from the show’s earlier seasons.
Does Welcome to the Hellfire Club include hints about Stranger Things season 5? The game’s designers have said they were given small hints about season 5’s storylines while visiting the show’s set during development, though specific plot details were not confirmed publicly.
