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I'm not really that in to megadungeons, but that is cool idea though.

On another topic I rolled couple of monsters for the menagerie using The Random Esoteric Creature Generator and interpreted them to my adventure's demands and gave them names so I can refer to them in my notes in sensible way like say sphinx instead of monster in room 16.

Swarm
AC: 15
HD: 1 (HP: 4, 5, 6, 3, 7, 2)
Move: 40' Fly: 40'
AT: 1
D: 1d6+poison

Six red shelled humanoid insects, they are four feet tall and have bodies covered in coarse black bristles, their transluscent wings give out constant droning sound. They attack by poisonous bite, if save is failed death follows instantly. They are semi-intelligent predators driven insane by hunger and will attack anything that moves.

Sphinx
AC: 12
HD: 5 (HP: 25)
Move: 40'
AT: 1
D: 1d6+level drain

Sleek quadrupedal avian creature with body resembling that of great feline predator, it is covered in black feathers, it's bright blue tongue darts out of it's needle-like beak as it sits on it's haunches. It has golden hieroglyph on it's forehead. It attack's with it's whip-like tongue that will drain 1 experience level per hit. It will attack anything that is not a dog-man, if let loose it will stalk the corridors untils brought back to it's chamber by it's masters.

Hater
AC: 14
HD: 3 (HP: 11)
Move: 30'
AT: 3
D: 1d6 each

Disgusting pile of quiwering chitinous limbs oozing clear liquid that drags itself forward on the ground, damage dealt by it's flailing limbs can not be healed by magic and it will try to attack spellcasters before any other opponents. It is motivated only by hate of magic and especially magic-users.

Arcturian Mistletoe
AC: 16
HD: 5 (HP: 31)
Move: 10'
AT: 1
D: 1d10

Rhino with symbiotic alien plant growing out of it's body, strange purple branches with black leafs pierce it's thick hide from within. It is intelligent but quite passive, it will start following characters if let out. If touched it engages in telepathic contact with images of alien forest worlds flowing in to to mind of the contacted.

Claw
AC: 17
HD: 5 (HP: 22)
Move: 50'
AT: 1
D: 1d10+1

Bipedal reptilian beast 12 feet from head to tail, it looks like a komodo dragon crossed with gorilla and has bony growths asymmetrically over it's body, it's tiny head darts constantly from left to right. It attacks with enormous claws on it's hands. This beast can only be hurt by magical weapons. It will by innate gift know which opponents are weakest (have lowest hit points at the moment) and will always attack them. It seeks humanoid prey to build a nest out of their corpses as it's ready to lay eggs.

Cerebrus
AC: 12
HD: 4 (HP: 23)
Move:40'
AT: 1
D: 1d8

Humanoid aardvark 10 feet tall, it will pound anyone coming in to it's sights with it's meaty fists until dead, it's mind is consumed with berserk rage and it will no retreat from combat. It has silvery technological device attached to it's skull that actually controls it, giving it immunity to mind-affecting spells and abilities.

Cavesong
AC: 15
HD: 2 (HP: 13)
Move: 50'
AT: 1
D: 1d8

Pale man-sized beast resembling enormous albino frog with beak. If cornered it will defend itself but for now it is content to sing strange hauntingly beautiful bird-songs.

*Bam* Carcosa happens!

Excellent idea, and definetly it should lead to that, I'm currently imagining how awesome swords & planet adventure would come out hakkapeliittas on Carcosa, but I'll better finish this one first.

I like your idea hunggokyan, that alien menagerie is pretty solid idea to build the dungeon advanture around. Structure for the GM.

It makes me think best idea though is not to represent function of the dungeon to players, they can only guess and encounters might suggest it. Their guesses will be as good explanation as they will ever get. Are they in alien petting zoo, are people used as spare parts to patch aliens rotting bodies or do they harvest humans for their intergalactic fast food franchise? Definete aswer should not be given.

CironeAE there definetly needs to be switches that release all sorts of bizarre beasties because this is as good excuse as any for me to crank up some weird critters.

Knowing my players I'm pretty sure they would focus lot of attention on the guy behind the witch hunt. I would make the magic-user behind the witch hunt is a really slippery behind the scenes manipulator who is not easy to connect to happenings by simply asking around. I would go as far as having some sort of professional witch finder in style of Matthew Hopkins to draw player attention and aggression away from the real culprit so they never see it coming when things go from bad to worse. Murderous asshole who has it coming but not actually behind what has been happening is pretty good red herring unless you have really paranoid players who view every adventure as matryoshka dolls of evil.

Should there be chance for actually escaping like by finding a portal in the another end of the dungeon? Ideal outcome of course would be PC's crashing the spaceship down to Earth in shower of fire. Escape through portal would of course not lead them exactly back home but to post-apocalyptic undead wasteland where the Sun is red and dying because Apep is devouring it. Turns out that instead of being unconscious for short indeterminated time they have been placed in cryonic sleep sarcofagi for centuries and have been resuscitated only just recently.

I have thought about setting LotFP game to happen during Ragnarök or Great Tribulation or during sort of New World venture where explorers fuck things up and tzitzimimeh descent from the stars.  Though not in to near future Road Warrior style setting.

Conan kicking Duvan'Ku in the ass was my thought about black circles:
http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/24-074/ … k-Circle-1

Dumb question but will the special edition Ref's book be same size as the regular so it fit's the slipcase?

Expand the monster section, maybe use sort of "greatest hits" as example monsters like flailceratops etc.

I think James Raggis modules have driven to new directions as they keep suprising me and they have challenged some core assumptions about adventures you play with D&D-like games. There is palpable sense of wonder on what the guy will come up with next which make me really forgiving on little details on the products. There really should be updated version Death Frost Doom, or at least new print for the rubes who didn have chanse to get it.

I really can share opinion that Goodman Games would have ridden to "unexplored terrain rather than keeping to the safe, well-trodden paths" their modules are all about safe well-trodden paths down to their marketing spiel, and they give exactly what it says on the tin, dungeon crawls that imitate down to trade dress the old modules. If they have not changed their marketing rhetoric I think they are honest about it too. Good products if is it's the kind of thing you are looking for but not really innovative or groundbreaking.

Whenever I read psychonauts I think of cool not that old videogame, which I can recommend.

I have read the term I think on one occasion on the internet related to use of hallucinogenic substances when I was mining for material to use in gaming like some druggies rather creepy accounts on encounters with plant intelligences from other dimension and other that kind of stuff. I think I have come across variation of term in some old hippy or 70's parapsychology books as some kind of exploration done in altered state, the kind of stuff stupid people who collect healing crystals and think they have been probed by aliens read with straight face.

I would throw in to pretty straight horror or gothic fantasy scenario a ray gun, yup a futuristic beam weapon capable of blasting all your troubles clean off.  Reason why I would do it would be because I have Weta Saboteur 66 and it would be awesome prop to hand to player hands in middle of game as total suprise. "You find this in the cupboard." Suprising players is great and having only bad things happen to them can become predictable if you don't throw a total curve ball once in a while, placing it in totally grim and dark adventure like Death Love Doom would propably maximize the effect. Sort of like in Zombie Flesh Eaters movie that is totally bleak and violent exploitation flick but one where there is suddenly a totally bitching Shark vs. Zombie underwater fight scene.