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As with your other suggestions, I think this is fine, even though it's quite different from what I do

I do agree with the idea that hit points represent both physical and mental "damage" and strain, not just wounds.

I have players completely reroll Hit Points each morning, adding half their CON if they had a good night's rest. Their max hit points is level X HD +1/2 CON. They can drink alcohol, eat sweets, and use drugs to add hit points a few times throughout the day.

So there really is no "healing" during the night, just a fresh start the next day (and, they even have a chance to have lower hit points the next day even if they took no damage - they're just having an off day.)

However, when they are reduced to 0 hit points, all damage after that comes from CON, which now lowers their HD. Their CON damage definitely has to be healed through rest and more extreme healing.

All that sounds about right!

(I haven't had to worry about magical healing for a while - clerics get random spells just like Magic-Users in my campaign...)

I think your house rule sounds good. Have you played yet? Have you had player deaths or is this more of in anticipation of how it will play out?

I'm almost at the point where my dying rules are gonna be: When you hit zero or less, you're knocked out of combat and are gonna die unless someone helps you after the combat's done. So basically you can live if your party survives, but if it's a TPK or they flee, then you're gone. (If you are saved after hitting negative, then there's a scar, -1 to a random ability score permanently.)

But...not quite there yet, still playing with various house rules too.

So there's two different kinds of deaths going on here:

1) Players make risky or bad choices, which results in a bad thing happening to the PCs. In CC, I think the twins only come if they steal the tiara, right? This happened to my party - the group decided to leave it alone, except one player decided to sneak back and snatch it, which unleashed the twins on them. They were luckily able to defeat them. The party thought this was a random attack, only the thief who took the tiara knew it was likely happening b/c of his choice.

2) Bad luck (ie, you get the most deadly result on a random encounter roll, or some such thing). I was playtesting the new LotFP rules and made a survival roll for the party, which resulted in one of the PCs tripping on a rock and taking d8 damage. It was enough to kill them. They were not happy about this, especially since they made the choice to leave the dangerous dungeon and get back to safety.

Number 1 I'm not concerned with. If players don't seem to be getting it, you may want to reveal some of the behind the scenes stuff after they've finished with the consequences. Let them know that they would not have fought the twins if they hadn't stolen the tiara.

Number 2 does kind of suck. I think having random bad stuff happen is okay, but random death isn't.

At any rate, I've mitigated both of the above with a few things.

1) Instead of dying at 0 hp, instead the PC loses a permanent point from their CON, and a permanent point from a random other stat.

2) They have a Luck stat. This is an average of all their stats at character creation. From then on, they can burn a point from this stat to reroll any die. However, this is also their stat for initiative, running away, and figuring who the "bad thing" is going to happen to (ie, I ask all to make a roll and the one who rolls worst is the one that gets the random attack). I also use this for when they try something possible but risky, they just roll their luck and don't roll a 1 to succeed (this last one requires you to have unusual dice, like those from Dungeon Crawl Classics).

3) At character creation, they create four 0 level characters and choose one to put at level 1. They can bring the others along as helpers who can take on some of the risk, including, when running away, these are always the slowest characters. One or more might die, but it allows the leveled party to escape.

Doing just one of the above might be enough to give your players the boost they need to survive. I decided to implement the above b/c I found that the unavoidable instant deaths in LotFP were a lot more enjoyable to experience then the dying through hit point loss method, and my players started to be too afraid to interact with anything, so I needed to give them a bit more confidence to explore more.

Well, personally I'd run it for any level and any number of players. It's much more of an investigation and exploration rather than a "kill them all" kind of adventure. And there are some things in there that can be insta-death for any level character, but can be avoided through careful or clever play.

However, if you know they are going to be aggressive and try to kill the various undead they encounter, you may want to bump their levels up a bit, or provide them each with a follower who can help out or take on some of the risk.

I do have a spreadsheet that has all official LotFP spells (including those from adventure modules, like R&PL and God That Crawls). It also has a bunch of other OSR spell sources, like Wonder and Wickedness and DCC. It ends up being just over 2000.

In general you treat monsters like Fighters of the same level (Hit Die = Level) so the monster above would be like a 2nd level Fighter. This mainly only matters if you need to make saving throws for it.

To attack, just use the monster's Hit Die number as their attack modifier. So the monster above would roll 1d20 and add 2 to the roll. If it meets or beats the PC's armor rating, then it would roll 1d6 damage.

I recommend downloading the free Referee guide and looking at the section on monsters for more information and advice.

Welcome! I'm also one of the mods - mostly I just delete spammer posts, but try to help out with rules and other questions when I can.

I recommend downloading the free Referee book and checking out the monster section on page 48. This should give you a sense for how to adjust monsters.

I'm not super familiar with the details of B/X, so I can't provide specific advice. But in my experience, I just do a spot check of the monster and determine how to adjust whenever I'm using a module from another system, and it works fine. If you're off by a little bit it usually doesn't make a difference.

Haha, the Veins of the Earth one is on there!

I'm assuming since you're on this site, you are aware of the following (but linked, just in case):

http://www.lotfp.com/RPG/3rd-party-support

I actually do have a copy of an official style guide, but I'm not sure where I got it and a google search doesn't turn anything up. I may be able to post a link or details later. This mainly just explains how to format stat blocks and other sorts of grammar, punctuation, and layout requirements. It's only about 1 page.

As far as content requirements, the only thing that comes to mind is you probably shouldn't use any traditional fantasy races. Unless you've found an extremely creative use for them, your adventure will likely be rejected, or if it's otherwise amazing, you'll probably have to change them into something else (like the Orcs changed to "Pig-Men" in Towers Two).

There are two ways to pitch, I think:

1) Watch social media, forums, etc., and if Raggi announces that he's looking for something (new writer, new adventure, etc.) you might be jump in and submit your adventure, or even just a pitch, and he might approve it.

2) Once it's done, submit a pitch via e-mail. I believe the format he prefers is an overview, where you give an initial summary/introduction, and then summarize each section of the book.

Hope that helps!