Converse is partnering with Dungeons & Dragons to have a good time the legendary tabletop franchise’s fiftieth anniversary with a scorching new collection of footwear and other gear that can be obtainable on-line beginning April 11. For these attending this 12 months’s Gary Con, the favored Dungeons & Dragons fan occasion celebrating its co-creator Gary Gygax, they’ll be obtainable there on March 21.
Converse’s new merchandise show a clear understanding of the project. Simply take a look at the designs, which draw inspiration and incorporate particulars from first editions of D&D’s Participant’s Handbook, Monster Handbook, and the Dungeon Masters Information.
Naturally, the collection contains a number of limited-edition “Chuck 70” type canvas and leather-based high high sneakers. The 2 leather-based high high designs function an alternate model of the Chuck Taylor All-Star brand, designed to resemble a D20 as a substitute. The canvas designs function some other enjoyable particulars, like illustrations of Kelek the Sorcerer, Warduke the Fighter, and Zarak the Murderer from the D&D motion figures made within the 1980’s.
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Some of the patterns, illustrations, and other distinctive parts will even be ported over to Converse By You, letting you apply them to your individual bespoke attire designs. To high all of it off, the field that these high tops ship in has lovingly been remodeled into a Mimic.
Along with the special-edition high tops, Converse’s D&D collection will embrace a trucker hat, shorts, a sweatshirt, and three T-shirts. The hat and shorts function the demonic face discovered on the duvet of the participant’s information for the primary version of Superior Dungeons & Dragons, however my private favourite is the sunshine inexperienced tee that options a Gelatinous Dice, which is consuming the Chuck Taylor brand.
Converse hasn’t revealed any pricing data surrounding the collection simply but, however as somebody who wore Chuck Taylors to their wedding ceremony, I can’t wait to choose up a pair for myself.
