What is "darkon"

n. (context physics English) A scalar field (or particle) that represents an elementary part of dark matter

Darkon may refer to:

• Darkon, a domain of the Ravenloft campaign in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
• The Darkon Wargaming Club, a live-action role-playing group located in the United States.
• Darkon (film), a film based on the above club.
• The primary antagonist of Teknoman.

Darkon is an award-winning feature-length documentary film that follows the real-life adventures of the Darkon Wargaming Club in Baltimore, Maryland, a group of fantasy live-action role-playing (LARP) gamers. The film was directed by Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer.

Darkon premiered and won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the 2006 South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Darkon was an official selection playing at Hot Docs, Maryland Film Festival, Silverdocs, LA Film Festival, Britdoc, Melbourne International Film Festival and the Camden International Film Festival.

The film was produced by Ovie Entertainment and SeeThink Films.

John Hodgman was hired to write a scripted film adaptation of the documentary. However plans fell through, but an excerpt of the unproduced screenplay was read on his podcast Judge John Hodgman.