From publisher blurb:
“In the 1980s strange things happened everywhere!”
Bloat Games proudly presents SURVIVE THIS!! Dark Places & Demogorgons - Ultimate Edition. SURVIVE THIS!! Dark Places & Demogorgons is an OSR Horror TTRPG set in the 1980s, where you play as teenagers from a small town where strange occurrences began popping up all around. The adults are too busy to care, and the police don't believe you. It’s up to you and your friends to figure out what’s going on and stop it from happening again!
Playable Classes
Break Dancer, Extreme Athlete, Final Girl, Geek, Goth, Hood, Horror Connoisseur, Jock, Karate Kid, Kid Scientist, Metal Head, Most Excellent Dude (Or Dudette), Nerd, Party Animal, Performer, Preppy, Princess, Punk Rocker, Snoop, Mystic (Optional Class), and Psion (Optional Class).
The Game Master's (GM) in ST DP&D take on the role of the town's folk, the monsters, and the setting itself. The GM will decide the adventure, while allowing players to make their own choices, and will react accordingly to those choices.
Monsters Adventure Seeds of note:
The Pope Lick Monster
The Phantom Fairlane
Tara The Clawed Menace
Alien Life Form
Son of The Mothman
The Killer of Your Dreams
Heckles The Clown
Cyborg Slaughter Machine
Dolly The Doll Maker
Gremlins, and many more!
About The Game:
Dark Places & Demogorgons uses the SURVIVE THIS!! game system. SURVIVE THIS!! is on OSR, d20-based game system, that features:
Class and Level
Attributes: Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, Dexterity, Constitution, Charisma, and Survival.
Survival allows you to re-roll failed attempts. Similar to Luck in Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG.
Ascending Armor Class
Advantage and Disadvantage
Hit Points and Saving Throws
Most rolls are d20+Mod to beat a target difficulty, where rolling higher is better.
Simple Skill System and a lot more!
If you have played any version of the world's most popular fantasy RPG, you can play SURVIVE THIS!! and know exactly what is going on almost right away. It's very easy to pick up. If you have no experience with those games, SURVIVE THIS!! is easily approachable and has about the same learning curve as any traditional tabletop RPG.
SURVIVE THIS!! Dark Places & Demogorgons - Ultimate Edition is designed to be a standalone game, meaning no other products are needed to play. However, because it is part of the SURVIVE THIS!! game series, it is 100% compatible with games like We Die Young, What Shadows Hide, Vigilante City, The Dead West, Bloody Appalachia, and more!
The Ultimate Edition includes all the core rules needed for play and character creation, along with a full setting guide, monsters, villains, bestiary, adventure seeds, equipment, random tables, index, appendixes, and more. It will do this while remaining 100% mechanically compatible with all SURVIVE THIS!! Dark Places & Demogorgons products.