Candyland was dark and edgy in the first place. It was made for use in children's polio wards. That's why the rules are dumbed down as much as humanly possible. Dying three year olds needed to be able to play.
Typical Ganker contrarian insecure in their masculinity. Can't just enjoy things for being cute or upbeat, have to make everything dark and edgy because that's mature and manly or some shit they got blackpilled into by /misc/shitters.
Well, Blood In The Chocolate was originally written for Lamentations of the Flame Princess, that might be a good place to start. The system itself has a reputation for being dark and edgy, but the core rules themselves are pretty simple and thus easy to convert existing adventures to or tweak the rules to your liking.
If you're looking for other options, LOTFP is very closely based on D&D 1e, so it or another OSR game like OSE would get the job done. If you want even simpler than LOTFP for a one-shot or something, look into Knave or Cairn. Or if you're looking for something a little closer to modern D&D with character abilities and stuff, I haven't played it but I've heard Shadow of the Demon Lord does dark tones well.
If you want better advice, maybe tell us more about the adventure? I've never seen it before.
Changeling.
World of Darkness is great for making normal/wholesome things dark and edgy.
I've done it twice.
The Magic School Bus + Genius: The Transgression
Holes + Werewolf: The apocalypse.
Granted there is a slight chance I was manic when I thought of and ran those.
There's this I guess if you want some edgy inspiration, though be warned it's on the lewd side and not a full system: https://porpentine.itch.io/blood-sugar
>I need candyland to be dark and edgy
who the frick even are you
Candyland was dark and edgy in the first place. It was made for use in children's polio wards. That's why the rules are dumbed down as much as humanly possible. Dying three year olds needed to be able to play.
That makes the game's origins dark, but not edgy. And the game itself is neither dark nor edgy.
obviously a 12 yo
Typical Ganker contrarian insecure in their masculinity. Can't just enjoy things for being cute or upbeat, have to make everything dark and edgy because that's mature and manly or some shit they got blackpilled into by /misc/shitters.
Nah, this is just a trend in contemporary media to have "teletubbies but fricked up"
See: five nights at freddie's and it's 15 permutations/ripoffs
Seeing as how the art looks like Tumblr circa '08, BESM, or some other anime system is probably your best bet.
>anime system
>anime works in D&D
Yeah, no. Naruto has a 5E expansion but it's literally like 900 pages of added rules to make it work.
works in D&D
Not what I was implying at all.
Try again?
>BESM
>Anything but hot steaming dogshit
I ran it for two sessions before we all agreed it was the worst system we'd ever played.
Ok
Objectively the most random thing I've seen on the Internet, and I've been lurking for nearly two decades now.
Well, Blood In The Chocolate was originally written for Lamentations of the Flame Princess, that might be a good place to start. The system itself has a reputation for being dark and edgy, but the core rules themselves are pretty simple and thus easy to convert existing adventures to or tweak the rules to your liking.
If you're looking for other options, LOTFP is very closely based on D&D 1e, so it or another OSR game like OSE would get the job done. If you want even simpler than LOTFP for a one-shot or something, look into Knave or Cairn. Or if you're looking for something a little closer to modern D&D with character abilities and stuff, I haven't played it but I've heard Shadow of the Demon Lord does dark tones well.
If you want better advice, maybe tell us more about the adventure? I've never seen it before.
Changeling.
World of Darkness is great for making normal/wholesome things dark and edgy.
I've done it twice.
The Magic School Bus + Genius: The Transgression
Holes + Werewolf: The apocalypse.
Granted there is a slight chance I was manic when I thought of and ran those.
Changeling is an interesting idea. Nothing wrong with using mania for creativity.
I personally enjoyed Dimension 20s crown of candy, which was just heavily reflavored(heh) 5e with a resurrection ban.
Why are burgers so obsessed about this game made for toddlers, again?
>Why are burgers so obsessed about this
>game made for toddlers
You kinda answered yourself
Fun fact: the polio virus does not exist and the entire thing was a coverup for a frick ton of kids getting poisoned by arsenic based pesticides.
There's this I guess if you want some edgy inspiration, though be warned it's on the lewd side and not a full system: https://porpentine.itch.io/blood-sugar
FATAL. Lord Licorice is a serial rapist.