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I'm not sure how active James is on here as far as answering questions; if you don't hear a response in the next day or two, I recommend asking on the Facebook group or emailing him.

The shirts are often released in limited editions. You can check both the US and European webstores, and Noble Knight Games also has shirts.

But yeah, they typically sell out of the most popular sizes, and I don't think he ever reprints shirts...just moves on to new designs.

The best thing to do is sign up for the newsletter so when new things are printed, you are informed and can go pick up what you want. The shirts don't sell out SUPER quick, it's just that after a few months (or years) the sizes are limited.

It's big enough to engulf a person, but small enough for an adventurer to try and leap over.

There's also a picture of it, which makes it look a bit bigger than the above would imply.

There are also mini-gods in the chasm. I'd say they're the size of a dog? And the main one is the size of a bear?

Or if you assume 1HD is the standard size of a normal human, the minis are human sized and the main one is the size of five humans?

Spam. It's an exact copy of one I deleted last week.

I believe that booklet is reprinted in the Tutorial Book in the Grindhouse set (the art and text I see in that image match up with it, at least).

It's really a full discussion of various authors and works, but, I can at least provide you with the authors and any works that stand out:

Clive Barker - lists numerous works - too many to write here, to be honest

Robert E Howard - mentions Conan and Solomon Kane

Fritz Leiber - lists numerous works, including the Lankhmar series

HP Lovecraft - recommends beginning with the well-known short stories (Call of Cthulhu, etc.) Also mentions Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Frank Belknap Long, and August Derleth

Edgar Allan Poe - lists the classic horror stories and poems

Clark Ashton Smith - mentions the Zothique Cycle, Hyperborean Cycle, and Averoigne Cycle

JRR Tolkien

Jack Vance -  mentions many novels and stories, such as the Dying Earth and the Demon Princes

Jules Verne 

HG Wells

Others [no discussion of these - just this list]

Anderson, Poul (The Broken Sword, etc)
Bierce, Ambrose (everything!)
Blackwood, Algernon (The Willows, etc)
Bradbury, Ray (Something Wicked This Way Comes)
Carroll, Lewis (Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass)
Chambers, Robert W. (The King in Yellow)
Doyle, Arthur Conan (The Lost World, etc)
Dumas, Alexandre (The Three Musketeers, etc)
Hodgson, William Hope (House on the Borderlands, The Night Lands, etc)
Homer (The Iliad, The Odyssey)
Joshi, ST (The Weird Tale, The Evolution of the Weird Tale)
King, Stephen (Eyes of the Dragon, Cycle of the Werewolf, the Dark Tower series)
Lord Dunsany (most everything)
Malory, Sir Thomas (Le Morte d’Arthur)
Merritt, A. (The Moon Pool, The Ship of Ishtar, etc)
Moorcock, Michael (Elric stories, Von Bek stories, Corum stories, many, many others)
Orwell, George (1984, Animal Farm)
Shakespeare, William (MacBeth, Hamlet, etc)
Shelley, Mary (Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, The Last Man)
Stephenson, Robert Louis (The Strange Curse of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island)
Stoker, Bram (Dracula, Lair of the White Worm, etc)
Swift, Jonathan (Gulliver’s Travels)
Wilde, Oscar (The Picture of Dorian Grey)

Pretty sure the Grindhouse Referee book will not be in print. But the full art version is available for free at Drivethru:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/14 … se-Edition

That said, he did just reprint the original version of Death Frost Doom, despite having a couple of other reprints already available for that - but it was provided as a freebie for ordering 8 items from the store. It's always possible the grindhouse book could be reprinted in a similar manner.

The new Referee book will hopefully be available in the next release cycle or two (maybe within a year)?

Better Than Any Man will be getting an official reprint, likely in some sort of deluxe hardcover version.

I actually wouldn't be terribly surprised if the other free RPG day stuff was included as part of the Better Than Any Man reprint (like as a free rpg day anthology?), but that is definitely not officially announced, it's just my guess. Those other free RPG things may instead be released later down the road, or as a part of some other collection (or, possibly not all, but I would be surprised by that b/c they were all written by James Raggi, so he has the rights to re-release them however he wants.)

Noble Knight Games frequently has out of print stuff available if money is not an option.

Last I heard from James is that this would not be released as a PDF due to an unforeseen issue.

I checked my own gear sheet that I made based off the LotFP rules, and I have a note that Muskets ignore the first 5 points of armor at all ranges. I could not find that in the rule book, but it doesn't seem like a house rule I would come up with...so maybe I found that somewhere in the official rules or an a FAQ somewhere?

If you email the publisher (James Raggi) a picture of you holding the book, or your invoice showing you purchased it, (or some other "proof" that you bought it) he'll make the full PDF available to you for free.

The only core book you can get in print right now is the Rules & Magic. The tutorial book is not available in print.

I know you said you don't want PDFs, but all of the PDFs offered for free on LotFP web page are great:
-Referee Book = the other core book
-Eldritch Cock and Vaginas Are Magic = collections of spells and new rules

There are also a number of free adventures:
-Better Than Any Man (phenomenal!)
-Stranger Storm (in the Referee book mentioned above)
-Slugs (bestiary!)

The best thing to buy in print as a starter is the Fire Adventure Anthology, as it contains 4  adventures written by James Raggi, including Tower of the Stargazer, which is a great starter adventure for new Referees and players.

After that, I'd say both the other Adventure Anthologies are essential, along with Death Frost Doom.

From there, I'd say buy according to your interests.

There is no official bestiary (but there will be one with the new Referee book coming later this year).

There is no official underground adventure for Veins of the Earth (although you could pick up Deep Carbon Observatory to complement it, but that's not officially LotFP).

I've never run it; I did read through it quite a while ago and just skimmed through to remind myself of the main points.

-The surface: you should put a town nearby. There are numerous towns in LotFP adventures you could use (Obscene Serpent Religion 2, a few in Better Than Any Man, etc.) The cultists do come around periodically and ask people to join the cult. You could include an early scene where the party sees people running to hide from a friendly cultist coming into town.

-I think the widow just moved all her stuff there and left the house empty.

-I would roll 1d20 for the encounter once per room, and when directed under an entry. Once a named cultist is in a room, they would become a "nothing" result on the roll in the future (unless a lot of time has passed).

-Personally, I wouldn't worry about the Spinner in the Darkness until my players engaged with the module and I saw how they dealt with it.

-I think this module was written with OSR/LotFP in mind, so not sure you need to increase treasure values?