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8.5” x 11” Hardcover - 204 pages - Smythsewn Binding - Offset Printing w/ Ribbon

“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 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.

What's included in SURVIVE THIS!! Dark Places & Demogorgons - Ultimate Edition?

• Introduction

• 20+ Character Classes

• Extensive Character Backgrounds Options

• 30+ Spells (themed for the 1980s)

• Rules for Psionics (20+ Powers)

• Modern Equipment List

• Rules for running and playing the game

• Complete Jeffersontown Setting Guide

• Includes Locations and Places of Note

• NPC catalog (including human villains, and worse, teachers!)

• 10+ Adventures Seeds, fully detailed with descriptions and stats

• Monster Bestiary, fully detailed with descriptions and stats

• Animal Bestiary, fully detailed with descriptions and stats

• Random Monster Generator

• Villain Generator

• Quick Reference Index

Why are we making SURVIVE THIS!! Dark Places & Demogorgons - Ultimate Edition?

SURVIVE THIS!! Dark Places & Demogorgons is our most popular game line.  The Core Rules and the original Kickstarter for DP&D is what really put Bloat Games on the map.  And while we love the original version, it was one of our first games, and it shows; especially in the art, layout, and editing departments.  The game has a lot of heart, and helped to get us where we are today.  However, truth be told though; I've always been a little disappointed with the way the book turned out.  

Then last year, when we did the Kickstarter for Dark Places & Demogorgons for Old-School Essentials, people really responded to the look and design for that version, and I knew that I had to update original, and making the Ultimate Edition just made sense!  That's why we're here and asking for your support, to finally make the version of SURVIVE THIS!! Dark Places & Demogorgons that I've always dreamt of doing.