Saturday, July 18, 2020

let's talk Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Lamentations of the Flame Princess, or LotFP for short was one of the early retro clones that broke away from being a straight B/X clone. 
It takes the Moldvay Basic/Expert rules and makes them accessable for a modern audience. It further sets itself apart from the pack by having it's default setting be Europe in the 17th century sprinkled in with weird horror ala Lovecraft, his circle and modern influences like Clive Barker.
It has a reputation as being the "fuck with your players game". Only some of the modules are like that. It helps if the referee is very upfront about the game and contents of the scenario being played. Because of this, I think of lotfp as being a horror system rather than fantasy.
A lot of the early modules like Death Frost Doom, Death Love Doom and Fuck For Satan are really like dungeon and sandbox crawls with a little (or large) morality test in there some where.
The published modules are excellent in printing quality. Sturdy hardcovers with ribbons and embellishments, bookmarks and top notch art that is not for the faint of heart. Each purchase also comes with a very well laid out pdf. Nobody in the business quite puts out product like this!
 I will be putting out some product reviews shortly and will make a spoiler free tldr as well as an in depth version.
I have ran: better than any man, Blood in the Chocolate, Lamentations of the Gingerbread Princess, and Fish Fuckers so far.
In 2018, accusers came out to testify about Zak Smith about cases of Abuse. You can Google that whole episode and make your own informed decision. I refuse to cover that can of worms here and will not respond to comments pertaining to it.
Because of that and a series of unfortunate circumstances the company is very deep underwater need your help!
You can read more about here: http://lotfp.blogspot.com/2020/07/new-releases-tomorrow-monday-july-13.html?m=1

In short, please pick up some stuff from either of the stores if you able to and want to see this company continue putting out excellent, unique material.
If you are short on change, you can pick up PDFs from drive-thru, but the profit margin isn't that high for the publisher.

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