tales from the loop

Free League’s Tales from The Loop has a premise that may sound a bit familiar, with children in the 1980s encountering otherworldly creatures from open dimensions. But it’s not like Netflix has ever capitalized on a certain show’s D&D connections, so FL has the market to themselves. It’s one of their best-selling products and a new expansion for the game has just hit shelves. Called They Grow Up So Fast, it’s a hardcover book that contains a four-part campaign taking place in the UK Loop of Norfolk Broads. If you’d rather set the game somewhere else, there are instructions to adapt the scenarios for the Swedish or US Loops. The new adventures are brought to life with never-before-seen art, maps and handouts. Everything changed on that fateful day. Looking back, I know that whatever we did changed our lives forever. The sky ruptured and something strange came through. It was a great adventure that showed us how little we knew about the universe. It was scary and yet magical. I

Why, oh why, has Netflix never allowed an official Stranger Things tabletop RPG? Or if they do allow it, why has no one taken up that offer? It feels like the most no-brainer product tie-in in the world. The show is one giant advertisement for tabletop games. We imagine plenty of people have watched the show and then visited their local hobby shops for the first time. That’s a lot of money left on the table. It’s nearly as bad as….NOT releasing the sequel to Knives Out in theaters for longer than three days. But the absence of such a product has allowed other companies to fill the hole with TTRPGs that have similar premises, if not the same characters. It’s allowed Free League’s Tales From The Loop, about kids from the 80s encountering monsters after school, to become a full-fledged hit. Big enough for Amazon to attempt to make a TV series out of it to chase their own ST, but no one noticed that show existed. The game

After some delays, Free League is finally ready to launch Tales From The Loop: The Board Game. If you think you’ve seen this before, you haven’t….well, you have, just not in THIS form. The Tales From The Loop board game is set in the same world as the roleplaying game, only with different rules and more physical props. It’s the same story: there’s a huge underground science facility called the Loop that’s doing off-the-book experiments and causing weird things to happen in the local community. You and your friends play the local kids curious about all of this. Lacking the adult sense to stay away, you run right into the danger area and start poking monsters with sticks. The landscape was full of machines and scrap metal connected to the facility in one way or another. Always present on the horizon were the colossal cooling towers of the Bona Reactor, with their green obstruction lights. If you put your ear to the ground, you could hear the heartbeat of the