Dark Places & Demogorgons: SURVIVE THIS
from Bloat Games is written by Eric Bloat and Josh Palmer. I picked up this
game as it focuses on a fond part of my own life: growing up in the 70s and
80s. The pop culture and films of the 80s are a big part of the nostalgia of
that time and a marketable feature. If you consider the existence of films today like Ready Player One,
It, Super 8 and the TV series Stranger Things, the love of retro 80s is alive
and kicking today.
DP&D casts the players in the role of
80s high school students that need to tackle dark encounters and strange
phenomenon inspired by horror and Sci-fi/fantasy films from the 1980s. As a fan
of the super hero RPG Mutants and Masterminds, I’m no stranger to casting PCs
in the role of High School students – it’s fun and having the PCs be 80s high
school students, especially when the players are my teenage kids, is a fun way
to teach how different life was in the 80s. Good thing my kids have grown into
80s pop culture fans (guilty!).
The book is well constructed and the art is
good. The text is peppered with type-Os and grammatical errors but this did not
detract from my overall enjoyment of the book. I’d love to see a second edition
come out with these fixed, however.
I’ve since purchased the Werewolf and
Vampire Sourcebooks – how could I not being such a big fan of films like Fright
Night and Silver Bullet? They are a great source of inspiration but I’m a fan
of fully fleshed out adventures and I’d like to see Bloat Games actually
develop a series of progressive DP&D adventures.
Overall, I’m now a fan and want to see this
product range grow and succeed. Kudos to Bloat Games.
Get it: HERE!
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