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Hello! I am Chris. I'm 38 years old, married, from Delaware, and work both a warehouse associate/process guide job and for a local Board of Education. Interestingly, I've only gamed a few times, but have several friends that do so regularly (mostly Pathfinder). I (as with my wife) am more of a writer of prose, and find that much of what has come from the OSR inspires my own creativity - both unique content and various tables and tools. I was hooked on weird fiction since I first read Poe and Hawthorne in 8th grade, and discovered Lovecraft after he was mentioned in an issue of Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing. I recieved the LotFP Rules and Magic Book Christmas of 2013 and have been enjoying what I can since. I've missed a few cool kickstarters due to settling on a house (the Ref Book for example), so I'm playing a little catch up, but I look foreward to it's long-awaited release and anything else in the future...

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Hi everybody!
I'm a 24 year old Referee from Finland. I got introduced to LotFP last year when I joined Petroosh's summer campaign on a hunch. I got smitten with the system and the scenarios and now I'm planning my own summer game to drag more innocent souls into the fold.

I've been GM'ing different games for the past five years, but LotFP is the first DnD-like I've played (if you don't count three sessions of Pathfinder, where all that minmaxing drove me away from the game).
I've found LotFP's impartial and objective approach to refereeing really refreshing after games where the players are coddled and put on a pedestal. (And on the same note GM is expected to craft epic campaigns while at the same time making sure not to railroad anyone into them.) And personally, I enjoy the lethality of the system even as a player, because I'd get bored with just one PC - and it makes the situations, where the suicidal under-average-statted Specialist just refuses to die all the more special. Having most of my NPCs getting slaughtered by players does that.
As a literature student, the idea that campaign can be born from random tables, dice and player activity makes me tremble with anticipation (and various other feelings too). Currently my favourite night time reading is either Red and Pleasant Land or Fire on the Velvet Horizon.

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I am 31 and live in Germany. It was at the Nordcon in hamburg last year that I first came into contact with LotFP.

The thing is, LotFP in general seems to have been exactly what I have been looking for, especially in regards to the themes explored therein. I have always been a horror fan, especially in its more disturbing forms. While I find the modern wave of torture porn simply distasteful, gore in and of itself has never particularly shocked me.
In fact, macabre and disturbing fiction and depictions have fascinated me since I was a young kid. Took me a few years, though, before I could realize that this was not, as my parents in their desperate attempt to fit me into what would be considered "normal", insinuated, a character flaw, but simply a natural predilection, like an affinity for, say, the colour red.

There is, in my opinion, a certain beauty in the macabre, in the uncanny, an aesthetic to be found in the deviation from what is normal and sane, although beauty is a thing of perception and most other people do not see it that way.

I adore cosmic horror in the HP Lovecraft vein, body horror as in " the Thing", Hellraiser (or most other stuff done by Clive Barker) and the more psychological elements of horror, as in Se7en, to name a few examples.

Hmm...yeah, I am rambling...;)

I am currently trying to tie some of the LotFP adventures together into my own campaign setting (an ordinary fantasy world thrust into a post-apocalyptic age of weirdness and horror after half the world was devastated by a death cult - the Duvan'Ku, to be exact - and the other half had make a few unwholesome deals with powerful, unclean entities to survive), although, given that of my two gaming groups one would be totally unreceptive to such a setting, since they are not horror fans and the other ight also have one or two players who might object to some of the themes present in the world, I fear no opne would ever lay eyes on it...and I do not know where to post my collected stuff...

Okay, rambling over...:)

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I'm Jacob. 41, born, raised, live in Oakland, California. I've been gaming since the late 70s and have played many, many things. Over the last year I've been focusing efforts on OSR material after running a game of Arduin Grimoire based on the original trilogy, to satisfy some deep personal longings, and just to see if it could be done. I was introduced to lotfp after picking up the excellent products Vornheim and Carcosa from my great local store Endgame, and I'm continuing to enjoy the lotfp material. When I'm not gaming, I enjoy martial arts, music and raising children, and other stuff. I'm working on something...

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Hi, I'm Dave. I'm from England. I'm based near Warwick at the moment.  I'm 49. I started with D&D basic, then AD&D 1e in '79.
I'm a writer and am also working on an adventure module idea at the moment. It's going OK so far.
I'm also looking for LotFP groups nearby. I also run an unofficial LotFP group on Facebook, to bring together people who have lots of experience and those who have none.

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If anybody is interested in joining our Facebook group, we discuss and promote LotFP products and releases, as well as try and put together people looking for groups.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Lamenta … ePrincess/

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Hi,

I'm a guy from Toronto. I'm 31, and got into RPGs with D&D 3.5 a few years back while working in South Korea. Recently got back into it with my old group via Roll20 online, and we are trying out 5th edition. Really enjoyed 3.5. Really liking 5th, too.

I've never DM'd (GM'd, Ref'd), but have been thinking about it a lot lately.

I'm very curious about Lamentations of the Flame Princess (for starters, what a great name). I'm not sure that I'd enjoy the rules system, as it sounds like a mash up of stuff from well before my time...but who knows.

Beyond that it sounds interesting and potentially fun, but I don't know if I'm getting the right read on it.

So, anyone out there once in a similar situation?
Anyone want to try to sell me on LotFP?

Cheers,

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Ed Dove wrote:
dogwithnoeyes wrote:

...got into RPGs with D&D 3.5...

Recently got back into it with my old group via Roll20 online, and we are trying out 5th edition. Really enjoyed 3.5. Really liking 5th, too.

I've never DM'd (GM'd, Ref'd), but have been thinking about it a lot lately.

I'm very curious about Lamentations of the Flame Princess (for starters, what a great name). I'm not sure that I'd enjoy the rules system, as it sounds like a mash up of stuff from well before my time...but who knows.

Beyond that it sounds interesting and potentially fun, but I don't know if I'm getting the right read on it.


So, anyone out there once in a similar situation?
Anyone want to try to sell me on LotFP?

I suggest posting a new topic of your own with the above information about yourself and your questions so people can answer you in that topic instead of in this one.




Alright, good idea.
Thanks.

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So I'm 38, and in northeast England (about an hour south of Scotland).
I'm here because, despite everything, I like to spend a lot of time drawing maps for places I've made up, creating characters I'll never use in any roleplaying game, reading books with inappropriate covers (and the content?  Oh, the content...), listening to awful records, and wearing stupid clothes.
I'm also here because I really like the history of mid-seventeenth century England (I did my PhD in 17thC nonconformist writers) and HP Lovecraft. 
I'm a nerd.
Hello.

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Hi,

I'm 40 and live around Chicago, Illinois.
I've been playing RPG's off and on since I was about 7. I'd heard of LotFP awhile back but initially didn't think it would be my kind of game. But I kept hearing it had a lot of creative stuff going on so I decided to pick it up thinking I'd be most likely to cherry pick the neat stuff and use it in another system with horror elements. But I was with a couple of the people I game with when I grabbed the book and they asked what it was. I showed them and it blew their minds. So I'll soon be running my first D&D/d20-based game since grade school for a group that never saw the old school games the first time around. I suspect that much like a successful doomsday cultist they will live brief, ecstatic lives.

I'm into a lot of different systems from running Earthdawn, Amber Diceless, Big Eyes Small Mouth, or Fate to playing  Pathfinder (tried playing D&D 5th but it bored me pretty quickly). The different approaches to gaming are interesting and it's why LotFP has me interested far beyond just seeing a retro style game again. The tension between the amazing artwork on the one hand that draws you in and makes you think about how the world looks and feels on the one hand and the approach to monsters being unique terrors on the other should fuel a lot of gaming goodness.

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ASL, huh? The fact that I remember that from AOL chat should give you an indication of my age. tongue

I'm Brian - a 33 year old male from southwestern Virginia. I'm just getting ready to run my first session of Lamentations and thought I'd join the forum for inspiration, advice, et al.

My gaming history is fairly straightforward: after reading a copy of Jack T. Chick's "Dark Dungeons", I stole a copy of the 1st Edition AD&D PHB from my local public library (D&D and Larceny! Jack T. Chick would be disappointed in me.) and learned to play. None of my friends wanted anything to do with D&D, though, so my first real attempt at playing with a group was with West End Games' 2nd edition Star Wars. That went on until 2000, when 3rd edition came out. I finally convinced my friends to try D&D and we played both D&D and Star Wars for several years until life caught up with us all and we had to part ways. Now, thanks to the internet, I'm preparing to get back into gaming and felt like Lamentations of the Flame Princess was the right way to go.

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Hi! I'm Jonny, 41, live in Derbyshire which is roughly in the centre of England. Married with a teenage daughter. Started roleplaying in the mid eighties.

I got hooked on a lot of the art that was going around for the hobby at the time and being a keen drawer myself, started to produce work of a similar ilk.

Recently finished my Masters in Illustration after leaving my job of 10 years working for a Japanese car manufacturing company.

Myself and some mates have just had a kickstarter for a DnD 5 ed. adventure funded, so I'll be producing more art for that. I've kind of gotten the LotFP bug at the moment and I'm waiting for my copy of the rules to arrive, which should be anytime soon. So who knows, something may be on the cards for the Flame Haired One, too! Cheers!

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Jonny Gray wrote:

Myself and some mates have just had a kickstarter for a DnD 5 ed. adventure funded

This sounds exciting.  What is it?

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I'm Alan, and I live just outside Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I'm 39 and I started gaming with the Moldvay Basic Set when I was 7. I've gotten interested in LotFP because I was looking for simpler OSR rules to use for the game club at the school where I teach. Since I like my job, I'm not going to use LotFP directly, but I'm adopting the encumbrance system and a lot of the refereeing ideas to use with BFRPG. I may also adapt some of the adventures for my DCC campaign that I run for some gaming friends from high school - especially Red & Pleasant Land which fits perfectly with the Shrek-meets-Pan's Labyrinth vibe I have going right now.

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Hey guys, also 33 here.... glad I'm not the only one. I live in California (the US one not the Mexico one.) I started out on D&D WAYYYY back when. I think I was 9 or 10, and we did the Escape from Zanzer Tem's dungeon.

I have actually loved this system ever since first hearing about it during the Free RPG day adventure Better than Any Man. A lot of the viewpoints and comments in it very much resonated with my thoughts on table tops. Not everything in the story has to be related to the central plot line. There should be other things going on in the world outside the main adventure so the players feel like part of the world instead of the focus of it, terrible stuff happens and it can't always be stopped, and most of all if you're playing and you can't figure out something to do when handed a map, told there's awesome shit going down and that your good with a sword you really need to step up your game.

I've finally talked a few friends into picking up the game with me too, and since it looks like I'm going to be running the plot I'd prefer to start looking into how the game runs from people who have experience before throwing us all together into things.

And yeah Ddogwood, I can't blame you for not running this system at your school. The system is great but people get touchy about images of women having half their face burned off with acid for some reason.

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My name's Patrice though I've been around as Kabuki Kaiser — which was a perfectly fine pen name until an Italian post-rock band decided to use it as well. Maybe I'll get them to record RPG music. I'm 40-ish, was born in France from a French-Vietnamian-Swiss-Norvegian-Italian-Chinese-Belgian-Corsican-Hippie-Protestant-Catholic-New Age family. I live in India now, in Poona, a small town of 7 million people, where I teach video game design, hopping to HK and Paris here and there to see the family.

I've started to play real early. Got my Holmes box for my 8th birthday and ran my first level 16-18 adventure when I was 11. This was a disaster of course but hey, I was a kid of ambitions. Talked about RPG on the radio at about the same age, played with friends and the club for ages, though all my "friends" were 25-years old and obviously feeling it a bit weird to have me play along.

I went through a Forge phase, absorbed all the jargon, been quite active there for some time and finally realized that the OSR was doing all that the Forge talked about doing but never did. Since I've never stopped to play D&D, I jumped on the OSR (whatever it is, really) wagon as it started to roll.

I run my games with a LL/LOTFP mashup, nothing special enough to release my own retro-clone though I wish the supplements I release, trying to achieve somewhat of a compatibility with both (which also means with all the OSR, all bickering about AC and the like aside) are worth it.

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Hiya, all. I am a 41-year-old Carlos Murphy from California. I started playing D&D with the Mentzer Red Box 32 years ago when spending the night at a friend's house. The lazy get and his folks sleep in, I was bored, and I spotted the box. I started a campaign governed by janky house rules that I fabricated on the fly; we called it Days in the Dark Realm. We stayed in crazy ad hoc rullng land for a while as we cobbled together Arduin Grimoire, D&D, and AD&D books. I've played loads of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (1st Ed.), most of the Palladium games, Savage Worlds, Labyrinth Lord, and D&D 3.5. Oh, yeah, Car Wars and GURPS, too. My daughter started playing D&D with me when she turned nine.

D&D 3.5 and especially reading Pathfinder and 4e turned me on to the OSR. I am sick of dense, often poorly indexed volumes that are rubbish table references and playing to the rules. Existing canon in the newer D&D editions cramped my DMing style, and I loathed even making characters to play.

The OSR is producing loads of charming, sometimes innovative, sometimes amateurish, but usually fun material. I dig the entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit of old-school gamers as a whole. What LotFP - my new game of choice - did for me was marry up pro production values with a B/X core and a Warhammer-like, low-fantasy milieu. Simple rules. Subtle spins on old tricks that work well mechanically. Ripper product line. A suggested and preferred aesthetic that is implied by the Rules & Magic book but actually kept mostly out of the rules, thereby slaying the demon Canon.

I am currently running my group through Better than Any Man and having a blast. I am dropping threads in the campaign that could lead to Vornheim, The God that Crawls, or the Monolith...but it looks like when the gang is done with Lower Franconia, they are heading for China. Qelong?

Thanks, Jim. This game is gold.

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If you see spam, hit the report button. When you add more useless shit posts to address the problem of useless shit posts, you are behaving no different than the spammer.

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JimLotFP wrote:

If you see spam, hit the report button. When you add more useless shit posts to address the problem of useless shit posts, you are behaving no different than the spammer.

I apologize Jim. I guess I should limit the libation when posting.

Not sure I ever introduced myself, so here goes...

I live in the US in the Pacific NW, but grew up outside of Providence, RI. I started with Holmes way back when the Earth was still cooling. I really don't play much anymore; however, I still love and support the hobby (but really just the "old school" stuff).

-Fox

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Hi all,

FULL DISCLOSURE: Not really new here, but created this profile to go with the email address I use most commonly.  My original username here was King Truffle IV, but I have mostly retired the email associated with that one.

This is the profile I hope to use on these forums going forward.  Hope it's acceptable.

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Hello. I'm Isaac. I'm 32 and I live in Brooklyn, NY. I'm a user experience designer, meaning I make decisions about how software behaves in its interactions with people. I got into RPGs when I was 12. I was hunting around the library's oversized book section (I think I was after that seventies 'Gnomes' book by Wil Huygen that had the two naked gnome illustrations in it) and came across the D&D Rules Cyclopedia. I taught myself and my brother and several kids on the block how to play, racking up plenty of late fees until my mom finally bought me a used copy from a dingy local game store. Our early adventures were of predictable quality (with lots of dice conversion until I scrounged together a full set), but I had enough fun to keep doing it for the past twenty years.

My taste is pretty eclectic and I like trying out new games. I've played most versions of D&D, plenty of White Wolf, some Rifts, lots of "narrative" games like Apocalypse World and Dread and stuff, and plenty of other obscure and well-known games along the way. I've never really had any meaningful break from RPGs, and have basically always been the GM.

I found out about LotFP via Zak Smith's blog, which I found somehow when 5th edition briefly rekindled my interest in D&D. I sat on some PDFs for a year or so and finally started up a campaign over the recent holiday break. We're coming up on our sixth session. I like the tight and simple rules, the nostalgia of those early D&D games, the horror content, the general high quality of the products I've consumed thus far, and the obvious metal influences. I'm pretty into metal. I wish I'd gotten into the game earlier and have serious FOMO about all the limited print products I missed, as PDFs are okay to read but shitty to run games with.

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Hi, I'm Darrell.  I am 50, and live in North Carolina (USA).  I started playing D&D with the old digest-sized booklets, and later moved (in succession) to Moldvay/Cook BD&D, 1e, 2e, 3(.5)e, and Pathfinder before discovering the retro-gaming movement, which reminded me of my love for the old games, which, in turn, led to my return to the Moldvay/Cook rulebooks for a few years.  I helped Greywulf in the initial development of microlite20, and later made my own adaptation of m20 (which I have yet to release, because, basically, I'm lazy).  I have been playing 5e for the last little while, but discovered the LotFP hardcover in a bookstore recently, and loved it!  That's about all I have to say.  smile

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Hi, I'm 43. I live in the middle of Baltimore in Maryland, USA with my wife and 20 year old black cat.

I wrote some stuff for some companies in the late 90s and early 2000s but then found writing massive heaps of narrative that saw very little use in play sort of depressing.  I now run a huge gaming store with some friends right outside of my city.

I like all kinds of RPGs but the OSR is my stomping ground. I pretty much just use Lamentations and DCC at this point and, due to being old, I have a lot of Judge's Guild and old Role Aids stuff that I like to integrate. I started with Moldvay Red/Pink box when Charlie Maynard brought it to school in 3rd grade and we decided this was what we wanted to do for recess from that point on.

LotFP scratches an itch that combines my nostalgic need for liberating models of role-playing and the other is that weird treasure-finding buzz I used to get when digging through the import section at the record store.

I love S&S fiction, weird sci-horror, and very low brow horror of the gorenographic and splatterporn variety. I like a lot of abrasive music.

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Howdy, I'm Michael,  46,  married and live in Florida. Started playing D&D around September of 1982 played that Twilight 2000 and a bit of top secret until I graduated High School in `87. Then I got out of the hobby for a number of years. Most of my friends had gone away to college of the military and I was stuck at home.  Girls also took the place of gaming and I didn't get re-interested in the hobby until  about 2003. Even then it was kinda nostalgia. But in 2012 I found a group to game with and we have had a game most Wednesday nights since.

These days I'll play about anything. D&D 5e, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, Fate, Vampire the Requiem, G.U.R.P.S. Fiasco...And I have run some games as well, Call of Cthulhu mostly along with a  smattering of the DCC RPG.

I'm attracted to LotFP partly because of the look and feel of the books. But I want to run it for the ideas in the scenarios. Historical fantasy,  hidden darkness, low magic and gunpowder etc.

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Greetings and salutations... I am Mica Fetz... raised in Baltimore, MD, U.S.A. - "army brat" and former soldier.

Age 43. 

The first RPG I played was Mentzer's red box back in 1982-83.  I was the party Cleric, and the mapper.  My second character was an Elf.  By that Christmas I was running my own games on the weekends, and I've been at ever since. 

I love the feel of LotFP... I like that it streamlines the burdensome rule sets that have grown out of a Gary and Dave's "guidelines" from 1974.  LotFP provides just enough for an experienced GM/Referee to move forward and have fun, while also creating a "rules-lite" entry point for beginners.  Additionally the LotFP art is amazing... really primes my imagination to create strange and wondrous things, people and places.

Glad to be here!