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The Dark Places & Demogorgons Ultimate Edition is Out in Print and PDF

The popular old school styled roleplaying game of 1980s high school horror and weirdness, Dark Places & Demogorgons, has a new edition in print from Bloat Games. This ultimate edition features all you’ll need to get started, and much of what people love about DP&D, with an all new layout and look. The 204 page hardcover (with PDF) carries an MSRP of $60.00 or grab just the PDF alone at DriveThruRPG for $19.99.

About the book:

“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!

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 will include 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.

Jeff McAleer

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