Stern Pinball's latest creation, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, introduces a unique feature: character progression. Using Stern's Insider Connected app, players can level up their chosen character, track their progress, and unlock new challenges.
Every year at CES , Stern Pinball has a new game to show off. They're one of the oldest and most well-known pinball manufacturers (not to mention one of the few left standing in 2025) so it's always fun for me, a pinball nerd, to check out what they have to show off. This year, it's a new machine meant to celebrate 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons . And like many pinball games, you can just walk up and play without knowing the intricacies of the game, but there's a lot here to uncover over time.
The thing that caught my eye was the fact that you can pick a character and level them up over time, provided you use Stern's Insider Connected app. That app already lets you create a profile and keep track of achievements, games in your area, your top scores and other features (you'll log in by scanning a QR code from the app). But with this new game, you can actually improve your character over time and save your progress through the game's many modes. When you first start, you choose a character and location, and those choices will affect the goals you need to achieve. Stern specifically say that its new 'PinSave' system will let you save character experience points, inventory items and game campaign progress across multiple games. That's a subtly wild move for a pinball game — usually you get three balls and that's it. It's a nod to how complex newer games can get these days, and Stern already experimented with something similar on its 'Star Wars: Mandalorian' game for a spin (the Stern rep told me I was the first person who wasn't an employee to play the game), and while there's only so much you can glean from a couple plays, it feels much like other modern Stern machines. That's not a bad thing — the playfield is lovely, and the large dragon on the left side presents some interesting challenges. Stern told me that it can try and block shots and also it enables a wild eight-ball multiball mode, with the dragon actively trying to bounce your balls into the drain
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