Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers - S1-E1
Factual error: The boys need Will to roll a 13 to hit the Demogorgon with the fireball in the DnD game. Fireball is an automatic hit. Players roll for damage only. They mention the 13 needed to hit in the final episode as well.
Answer: Technically Steve was never intended to die in Stranger Things. The Duffer brothers wrote a pilot script for a miniseries called Montauk that would eventually become Stranger Things. In that version of the story Steve is a more overtly villainous character and is killed by a monster. The Steve character was reworked once Stranger Things was created due to Joe Keery's more likeable approach to the character.
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