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Post by Probie Tim on May 19, 2017 17:55:00 GMT -8
On a whim, I decided to pick up a copy of the Players Core Book: Rules and Magic for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. LotFP is a tweaked retro-clone variation of B/X D&D (the Otus decorated, Moldvay edited boxed sets) with a focus on weird horror fantasy. It showed up in my mailbox today, and I'm giving it a good read-through.
Anyone interested in a review when I finish reading it?
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Post by tomes on May 19, 2017 19:33:54 GMT -8
On a whim, I decided to pick up a copy of the Players Core Book: Rules and Magic for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. LotFP is a tweaked retro-clone variation of B/X D&D (the Otus decorated, Moldvay edited boxed sets) with a focus on weird horror fantasy. It showed up in my mailbox today, and I'm giving it a good read-through. Anyone interested in a review when I finish reading it? Definitely. I've heard very good things about it, and have a lot of friends who have raved about it, for whatever reasons.
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Post by vyrrk on May 19, 2017 21:51:13 GMT -8
Yes please !
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Post by D.T. Pints on May 19, 2017 22:26:38 GMT -8
Love this game ! Really dark Norwegian death metal feel...makes me all warm and fuzzy.
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Post by D.T. Pints on May 19, 2017 22:37:41 GMT -8
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Post by D.T. Pints on May 19, 2017 22:41:23 GMT -8
www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/lamentations-flame-princess/1/"Lamentations of the Flame Princess is grimdark fantasy role playing by way of Finland, grimmest and darkest of Northern Europe's nations. Sorry, Norway. Based on retro D&D, James Edward Raggi IV has created an Open Game License version skewed for Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft. None of that is really going to matter to you once you see the "grindhouse" ultra-violence and bizarre sex portrayed in the artwork. This is what those creepy early D&D modules might have evolved into by 2011 if nobody ever told Gygax one of his ideas was too insane and Erol Otis was still kicking out artwork for supplements." But it sure is fun!
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Post by Probie Tim on May 20, 2017 7:31:31 GMT -8
Lowkeyoh sent me the 1d4chan entry on LotFP the other day. It's hilarious.
I can tell you that I'm really liking some aspects of this game already, more so than S&W. Like, in LotFP, magic is dark. If you're a magic-user, it's because you're working dark forces that the rest of society is afraid of.
That's... cool.
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Post by andreasdavour on May 25, 2017 7:47:27 GMT -8
LotFP is more of an attitude to gaming than a rules set, I think. I played with Jim once and it was very interesting. He is good at creepy stuff, and at tossing problems and not solutions in the way of the players.
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Post by D.T. Pints on May 25, 2017 8:44:52 GMT -8
Lowkeyoh sent me the 1d4chan entry on LotFP the other day. It's hilarious. I can tell you that I'm really liking some aspects of this game already, more so than S&W. Like, in LotFP, magic is dark. If you're a magic-user, it's because you're working dark forces that the rest of society is afraid of. That's... cool. My 1st level wizard summoned a great old one...didn't end well.
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Post by the0gekko0state on Jun 17, 2017 15:09:00 GMT -8
I am interested to hear your thoughts on the game.
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Post by Probie Tim on Jun 17, 2017 16:00:40 GMT -8
I am interested to hear your thoughts on the game. This is will be a long post, but I'll write it. Just not right now, heh.
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Post by the0gekko0state on Jun 17, 2017 16:21:38 GMT -8
I am interested to hear your thoughts on the game. This is will be a long post, but I'll write it. Just not right now, heh. Hey no worries I'll look forward to it!
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Post by Probie Tim on Jul 5, 2017 18:56:29 GMT -8
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Post by the0gekko0state on Jul 6, 2017 15:58:39 GMT -8
That was a great read! I will have to look at my PDF again. As you've got me interested again.
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Post by Probie Tim on Jul 8, 2017 15:46:08 GMT -8
That was a great read! I will have to look at my PDF again. As you've got me interested again. Rad! I'm glad you liked it. I'm starting to think that I like LotFP more than I like S&W... which has been my "go to" D&D game for years now.
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