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The Pale Lady
by Stefan [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/03/2024 03:53:07

Full review: https://stygian-muse.com/the-pale-lady-fear-and-philosophy/ There’s an abbey, not far from the woods. In the woods lives a witch called the Pale Lady, only she’s not really a witch. That’s just what the peasants say. She’s a faerie queen. Every spring, she leads a column of strange man-beasts out of the forest to abduct the sons of the populace. None of them have ever been seen again. Until now.



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The Yellow Book of Brechewold
by Dexter [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/31/2024 12:53:28

It's a fun, weird, dark fairy tale with satirical elements. Strong character and thematic writing, and an extremely interesting mega dungeon. Trying out a campaign with this soon, so excited!



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All Dogs Go To Hell
by Stefan [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/11/2024 03:36:21

A great little adventure, suitable as a one-shot! I did a longer review here: https://stygian-muse.com/all-dogs-go-to-hell/



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Carcosa
by T.L P. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/19/2023 11:21:34

Can't tell anything new that wasn't already covered by the other reviewers.

This is a timeless classic. I still use this book from time to time, it has the absolute necessary to make your creativity flow without giving you everything to be known, and because of that, it has a ton of content online made by fans. It is an awesome module. An absolute classic and it's not without merit.

And the best of all, still gets under the skin of the haters and puritans of the neo satanic panic. A must have!



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LotFP Rules & Magic Free Version
by Semen T. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 11/29/2023 01:46:07

After many years, still one of the best rulesets for fantasy role-playing games. The spells are less about pure destruction and more targeted on interesting, and sometimes horrifying, possibilities. The character classes are well-rounded and balanced, including the races-as-classes variants.



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Veins of the Earth
by Michael [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 10/28/2023 14:00:05

It's an exceptional book filled with enough concepts to fuel years of adventures. I've never encountered a monster compendium quite like this before.



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Staffortonshire Trading Company Works of John Williams, The
by Paul F. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 10/07/2023 20:21:17

I'm a GM who makes fully detailed color maps on 22" x 28" posterboard for my players. Been doing it for decades. One thing I am always having to do is look up old maps and see if I can draft something that has the feel of accuracy while still being playable within the limitations of my chosen form.

This supplement is gobsmacking, to put it lightly. I'd give it 6 stars if I could. Someone has gone and done the work of providing a huge selection of period maps for me to look at and gain ideas from....or heck just use what's there for Ghod's sake. It's amazing, it's incredible!

There's the vast array of buildings (and ships!) catering to the English themed, and that's a big chunk of the offerings on hand--but the selection covers a few other bases too: Colonial America, Eastern and Western Europe. Not a comprehensive array, but enough for you to get a sense of differences.

I mean, an ironworks! A whaling station! Exactly what I was looking for! And I didn't have to spend 1d3 days making an investigation roll. I just start adapting immediately. Yeah. Good times.



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Green Messiah
by Semen T. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 10/06/2023 14:55:55

Highly enjoyable for people who like pop culture references, secret plots, Kelvin Greenesque craziness, disgusting random effects, and radishes. Contains art, map, stats for NPCs, and a way to replace your players' characters with vegetable clones.



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All Dogs Go To Hell
by FU B. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 09/29/2023 17:15:57

A great adventure, especially for dog lovers, like I hear Semen is.



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Vornheim: The Complete City Kit
by Semen T. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 09/27/2023 21:53:42

The one book to run adventures in fantasy cities. NPC generators, weird superstitions and laws, tavern games, rules for urban crawling, random tables for exploring and searching the bodies of fallen enemies. Plus three mini-adventures that can be run anytime your players get into a city.



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The Idea from Space
by Semen T. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 09/27/2023 16:27:27

Described by the publisher, James E. Raggi IV, as a "Red Nails-like adventure", The Idea from Space brings the players into a conflict between the monstrous brutes that worship physical might, and a pure idea that literally brings minds together. Both are eager to bring the player characters into their respective collectives. What is cool about this adventure is a chance for the characters to undergo a groundbreaking change of one kind or another during gameplay, because of the decisions the players make. It can be a one-shot, but if played as a part of campaign, it can have enormous effect on how the events develop later in the campaign. Also includes possible violence, nudity, hairlessness, other worlds, and eldritch otherworldly weapons and creatures.



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Black Chamber
by Semen T. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 09/27/2023 15:59:41

A well-written adventure that can be played as a one-shot or as part of a campaign.

  • a way to make diseases more interesting;
  • a bunch of useful NPCs;
  • creatively reworked spells;
  • dozens of cunning traps and distractions to bamboozle your players. Plus stylish black and white design and a new use for your trusty D6.


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LotFP Rules & Magic Full Version
by Andre B. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 08/22/2023 14:21:41

There's a number of already great reviews written about this from others .. I tend to agree with the positive reviews not the negative ones though of course it goes without saying we're all entitled to our own opinions.. so I will just comment on a few things I think any newbie to LOTFP should know about.

First off I cannot believe the amount of not only free but quality content that the creator/chief writer/owner type person James Raggi makes available.. if you're feeling guilty about downloading it for free off the drivethru rpg website like I did under the "pay what you want" scheme bear in mind that "Grindhouse referee", "slugs", "vaginas are magic", " better than any man" and "doom cave of the crystal headed children" are linked as free downloads on Mr. Raggi's official LOTFP website. Also bear in mind that much like any good drug dealer Mr. Raggi makes the "first taste free" with all this quality stuff and then hooks you on it so you will buy the paid content :P .. which is fine , the writer/publishers of Torg Eternity do this too in my opinion (you can see my reviews of those products too if you like for more info on that) and there are a lot of high quality (in my opinion) tabletop RPG's that are taking this approach too in what is admittedly a competitive field. So do what I did, get on google and search "LOTFP best books" and wishlist them, you'll see a lot of say reddit comments for example where diehard dedicated LOTFP fans and reviewers give their opinions (there's a LOTFP reddit which is highly informative if you do a google search for that too).

So what you'll need to do is click on the LOTFP bundle option just to make sure you can see all these basically free titles to begin with.. drivethru rpg I love you enormously and I buy a lot of stuff from you but sadly I've found just clicking on the publisher's link.. like say clicking on "lamentations of the flame princess" in this case.. does not bring up all the related titles, same problem when you click on what's supposed to show all the Torg Eternity products .. but clicking on the LOTFP "get everything" bundle works as far as displaying everything.. do that and then snag the following titles I listed above for free as well as "Deep Carbon Observatory" and "sky stone river place" (or if it doesn't show up in the bundle do a search on drivethru rpg for it to snag it) ... and read Mr. Raggi's forewords for that matter too, they are hilarious and honestly the eldritch cock foreword in my opinion pretty much sums up Mr. Raggi's opinion regarding how he pushes the boundaries on controversial content.

Speaking of which.. there's absolutely no doubt these books push the boundaries as far as, ahem, "adult situations" and violence, censorship is simply not done here and in Mr. Raggi's opinion censorship is an awful thing to begin with so this absolutely will not be the kind of thing you can run with all the types of players out there, as the gamesmaster you'll know best if it's a good fit for your players or not.. but get it and read it anyways, you can't beat a price of "free" so why not and if you're like me you'll find it to be a highly entertaining read even if you never run it for your players. The core rulebook with the art is $5 and sure you could get it without art for free which is also very generous of Mr. Raggi but.. trust the other reviewers who have said to pay the $5 for the art included content, it's not a lot of money in my opinion and the value you receive for it is enormous... I absolutely loved the artwork not only in the "Lotfp rules & magic full version" but in the free content as well and it makes a ton of difference, I can't remember the last time I would go back and look at the same pictures in an RPG over and over again thinking to myself " holy crap this is REALLY good artwork"... and as mentioned above the words are pretty good too :)

LOTFP has had a lot of controversy associated with it over the years and if I was to address that I would easily go past the word count allowed for reviews here so I will say this much.. if you're concerned go ahead and google search "lotfp controversy" and you'll see a lot of stuff that raises eyebrows.. all I can say is I personally like to treat this the same as any other controversy .. listen to both sides of the story including Mr. Raggi's own (it's out there if you just look for it on the 'net) and THEN make your decision... I'm a left wing leaning pro socialist myself who absolutely believes in being what the right wing terms "politically correct" and even I wince at the lynch mobs formed not only in Mr. Raggi's case in the past but in other person's situations too (certain actors and actresses for example) and find myself wondering if we in the left have taken things too far. If after reading about it you can't bring yourself to patronize, even with the free products, LOTFP that's fine it's your call but at least make an informed decision before you do so. Myself, I am eagerly looking forward to purchasing more LOTFP titles as the months go by and my budget allows (gets expensive putting two kids through college :) ) ..



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LotFP Referee Book (old Grindhouse Edition)
by Christian M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 08/09/2023 16:07:03

James Raggi IV (the author of the book and founder of LOTFP) provides a large array of insight on becoming a game master that spans a variety of important subjects. Not only does this book provide the how on to run a game, but the principles and design of the OSR and what makes an adventure "good" and what the psychology and attitude one should have when running LOTFP or developing weird fantasy. And to sum up it comes down to scarcity of magic and it is dangerous, purpose over randomness, adventures to be mysterious and hard to define (especially creatures encountered) and the impartialness of the refree/GM to allow the players to grab the world by the horns or accept the player characters are there to be shocked and put through strange situations.

A lot of the concepts and advice in here come off spicy and hard to swallow pills to the new GM that wants to please everybody but are well said and put bluntly for the listener to process-it can almost be whiplash to see what the principles of gaming and running them are going from WOTC 5e to this or any "old school" game. It also covers topics like finding players and networking and how you should determine what kind of fun can keep a game alive and players coming back.

My biggest gripes are how long this version has been out without any of the promised expansions or reprinting(however there are numerous setting books in LOFTP one can pick up and run and all of them are interesting), the writing is on the wall that is a project long abandoned and some of the advice on being impartial (while technically true) can come off cold in an antagonizing way to a new player that isn't used to the osr mindset.

The book concludes with an adventure " A stranger Storm" A very weird and creepy story situation based on changelings/ dopplegangers, with unique guidelines on running them. What's to love about this is James writing takes a simple series of events, makes them vivid and easy to remember and keeps them open ended for you the GM and the Players to react. This is easily one of best free resources on the topic of running a game and if you're going to run LOTFP, it is wise to read this over. Reading the adventure one can easily pick up the mindset of what seperates the style and conventions of LOFTP to other OSR or modern games(everything is procedural with as much intrepretation left to GM to facilitate as possible) The adventure itself is very itrigue heavy and may not be for everyone especially on a beginning level but it is a clear example of what James was going for.



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Book of Antitheses, The
by Xavier B. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 05/17/2023 01:29:11

Absolutely weird, brilliant writing. It stands out from the other supplements quite a lot, very refreshing. You don't roll to find out, you throw bones ! Pseudo-science and occult pataphysique version of how to play RPGs. As an object the quality of the book is top notch. I have almost all the LotFP supplements and binge read about half of them so far. This is a top 5.



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