(RPG PDF Spotlight) SURVIVE THIS!! Greasers & Ghouls

SURVIVE THIS!! Greasers & Ghouls

by Bloat Games

Greasers & Ghouls is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game set in a small town in the 1950s. Players take on the roles of normal high school-aged teens, who encounter B-movie monsters lurking in the shadows, all while trying to go to high school, the drive-in, and still make it to the sock hop dance.  

In G&G, Gamemasters facilitate the game by guiding the through adventures, playing the role of the NPCs, villains, and monsters, and detailing the world that the players interact with.

Example Playable Character Classes Include:

  • All-American Kid
  • Badger Scout
  • Beatnik
  • Biker
  • Bully
  • Cheerleader
  • Farm Kid
  • Greaser
  • Lettermen
  • Soc
  • Square
  • Sweet Baby
  • Teen Idol
  • Thorned Roses

Adventure Hooks and Monsters of note:

  • Blob of the Knobs
  • The Breathtaking Giant
  • Grand Pharaoh Enauktep
  • Drive-In Mayhem
  • Giant Radioactive Critters Attack!!
  • The Little Green Men
  • Machine Men from the Moon
  • Mars Needs . . . Something
  • Mucker McGee, the Scourge of the Docks
  • The Odd Dr. Price
  • The Phantom Greasers, and more!

About The Game:

Greasers & Ghouls 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.

G&G 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 Dark Places & Demogorgons, We Die Young, What Shadows Hide, Vigilante City, and more!

The game 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.

SURVIVE THIS!! Greasers & Ghouls is available through DriveThruRPG in Print and PDF.


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