Editing Dark Places & Demogorgons (section)

==Overview==

A [[retroclone]] by [[Bloat Games]], '''''Dark Places & Demogorgons''''' is heavily inspired by the series ''Stranger Things'', as the cover blatantly hints. It is based on older versions of ''[[D&D]]'' (basic D&D in particular) but makes several major adjustments.

*There is a new seventh ability attribute, Survival, which is a pool of luck points you can burn to do rerolls.
*There are no races, everyone is [[human]]. This makes sense because...
*The game is set in the 1980's in a small suburb of Louisville, Kentucky.
*Classes are based on classic 80's high schooler tropes such as Bully, School Princess, Geek, [[Noise Marines|Rocker]], and Jock.
**Other classes one can be are Telepaths, Pyros, Experiment X and others that can use [[magic]] and [[psion]]ic powers.

The leveling scale is rather small, the absolute level cap being 7 (but that is optional, core rules say 5 should realistically be what you cap the players at and levels 6 and 7 are found in one of the [[splatbook|splats]]). Healing magic (and magic in general) is incredibly rare since all of the magic and psionic classes are at the [[GM]]'s discretion.

While the game does push a lot of supernatural monsters for the players to try and take down (in either a "monster-of-the-week" fashion or as a campaign-long enemy to stop) there are also plenty of mundane enemies ranging from the school bully to corrupt police, quirky neighborhood watch mothers to secret Men in Black types.

The setting is based on a real town in Kentucky but heavily modified to fit the "teens versus monsters" gameplay such as plenty of creepy woodland, lots of abandoned buildings and unique businesses that deal in less-than-normal wares. The town is also fairly small so that a kid or teen on a bike can go from one end of the town to the other in roughly an hour on foot if they are being somewhat slow. In every book there are details on quite a few areas and buildings with specific plot hooks like the roller rink with a harpy skater, a video rental store with cursed tapes and a campground near filled to bursting with creatures ordinary or otherwise.