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(1 replies, posted in LotFP Webstore Forum)

As of right now LotFP is capping shipping rates.

Nobody will pay more than 10€ for Economy/second class shipping. I'll eat any remaining cost in the hopes that customers will add more books to an order knowing that doing so won't cost them a penny more in shipping. We can both win that way. (There is a maximum weight of 1900g worth of stuff that can be put into this class of shipping, over that and it becomes a parcel.)

Priority/First class shipping will be capped at 20€ for EU customers and 25€ for non-EU customers. Non-EU customers' rates for tracked shipping and large parcels will be capped at 25€.

Shipping to Finnish addresses remains free.

If you see something in the store that's not consistent with the new policy, let me know at lotfp@lotfp.com so I can get it fixed.

And please spread the word if you're so inclined.

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(12 replies, posted in LotFP Webstore Forum)

I've had people get things in as little as 3 days in the US from Finland with first class shipping. Usually takes about a week from shipping though.

(Also, depending on when you ordered, I ran out of shipping supplies last weekend and just got a new delivery yesterday, so nothing went out this week. All orders are out the door as of today though.)

Yes, but only for people who backed a certain late Kickstarter that's waiting on a couple more short adventures to get done before they print and ship.

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(1 replies, posted in LotFP Webstore Forum)

This sounds completely reasonable on the surface.

However, in practical terms, it's a bit complicated.

This would have to be manually done, as in a unique coupon manually created for each customer who wanted to do this.

That really sounds like a potential "I'll never get anything else done ever" situation if it catches on as a thing to do, and open up "Well I bought PDFs and then hardcopies before this offer so can I get a refund?" situations and in general would make me pull my hair out.

Any suggestions to getting this done without me hating the job, the customers, and ever being born, will be listened to.

ack, sorry, didn't see this earlier.

Yeah, this seems to happen sometimes. The store software has some odd quirks sometimes. Haven't been able to pin down why.

http://igg.me/at/LotFP2014/x/396659

https://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/357717/files/20140208144743-stretchgoalcarddisplay.jpg

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(10 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)

It's armor cancellation, so if there's no (or insufficient) armor, the cancellation doesn't happen.

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(1 replies, posted in LotFP Webstore Forum)

Scan of the receipt if it lists what was purchased... or hell, I'm easy, take a pic of the books and send them along.

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(0 replies, posted in Crowdfunding Forum)

http://igg.me/at/LotFP2014/x/396659

What You Need to Know:

Trying to get another adventure into stores to be given away for Free RPG Day.

I wrote the adventure, took a couple weeks but it's all written and has even been played. So no worries about this turning into a lingering thing.

Rafael Chandler's writing an adventure for LotFP and this is your only chance to get it in print. Chandler did over a half dozen of his own releases in 2013 and is a machine and delivers on time.

Everything else is shirts or tote bags and things that I have a track record of getting out in a timely manner.

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(3 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)

If the PCs aren't supposed to be doing anything, just have this "chained up and kneeling" section be part of the opening exposition and start the game at the first place where the players can choose what to do.

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(5 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)

Even after "early modern" armor came into fashion, there were areas that used more traditional armor. So they shouldn't be used "together" in the same area (a region that's moved to buffcoats and breastplates isn't going to be doing much chain armor trade), but it's not entirely one or the other either.

ahhh the old spell list. (the reprint will just list how many spells per level, to be generated by the individual Ref)

But of these...

Crunk's got a good strategy, but I'd think that if the party is looking/acting like novices, then he could start off with Sleep and maybe take the whole party down at once.

Tower of the Stargazer and Death Frost Doom are on the schedule, and hopefully Vornheim will be reprinted by the end of next year, but no plans to reprint anything else, really.

Yuritau wrote:

Tales of the Scarecrow is ALSO (along with Seclusium) LFP0017

This was a monumental screwup on my end. If Scarecrow had been a retail release, I would have had to scrap the entire Seclusium print run.

As it was, all the Scarecrows were gone, so I just kinda went into the webstores it's available on and sorta changed its code to what Seclusium was supposed to be, and when it ships to retail all the distros will only have ever seen Seclusium as 0017.

LFP0026

The "An exclusive 64 page adventure by James Edward Raggi IV" is Adventure #10.

The new Ref book will address this.

Basically, if there's something weird going on (wizard's tower, cult activity), all the stuff you get from them counts as XP whether or not you take it from them in town or out in the middle of nowhere.

Sometimes, when dealing with other concerns in civilized areas, there's not much XP to be had at all for a session or three.

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(8 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)

Maliloki wrote:

should a PC have just a 50/50 shot at hitting an unarmored opponent regardless of level?

Yes. One of the big ideas of setting things up this way is that non-Fighters still look at well-armored foes, even 0-level soldiers, as a threat (or very least a problem) in combat.

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(8 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)

The combination of Fighters getting +2 to hit to start, 0-levelers getting no bonus, and other classes in between, just felt like it had a lot of impact with base Armor 12. Didn't go any deeper than that.

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(8 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)

It makes armor very, very effective against most characters.

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(14 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)

The new R&M hardcover is not in general distribution yet, that has to wait for the Ref book, but it is available from the LotFP webstore and direct retail partners (Sci-Fi Bokhandeln in Sweden, Noble Knight and Chuck-a-Con in the US, Sphärenmesiters Spiele in Germany, Chaos Comics in the UK, Fantasiapelit in Finland, Tesoros de la Marca del Este in Spain) right now.

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(11 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)

The "evolution" of the LotFP presentation is a little weird.

Cross-compatibility across the OSR is important, but that does kind of clash with the more historical setting I'm using lately.

Clerics totally work as nobody asks these questions. wink

But I see Clerics not as clergy, but more like fanatics. In Christianity, Joan of Arc and Matthew Hopkins would be Clerics.

But in my own games, not only do I not use demi-humans at all anymore, I also don't have NPC Clerics at all. Not a one. Still allow them as PCs though.

After the current workload is completed, the next thing will be a magic supplement that reworks things. It'll be a totally optional thing, and one of the options is the total elimination of the Cleric class.

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(11 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)

Missing text inserted!

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(11 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)

ahh, there's some text missing here under the Madness effect, but this was a raw, unedited, no feedback given version of the monster. smile