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Consulting your favored retro-clone beast book should provide the answers you seek.

TGG was made before LotFP was really it's own thing, if I understand it properly. Hence why it uses "standard" hazards.

The thing to do is to either make magical items have marginal benefit, or add drawbacks appropriate to their power.

A slaying sword that forces it's wielder to attack any living creature within melee distance once it is drawn is an example.

As is a suit of high bonus leather armor made from the skin of innocents, and thus no beneficial cleric/lawful spells will work on the character as long as it is worn, and perhaps sometime after. (days, weeks, until the character atones?)

Of course, you could also add in things like obviously ancient equipment that is unusually resistant or immune to rust or tarnishing, a cup that turns alcohol into water when filled with it, and other odd and questionably useful objects.

Something to add to Inar's thoughts about ogres:

1) possibly make them have crocodilian, but still fleshy, snouts. This gives them a menacing grin and a truly terrorizing sight when feasting.

2) ogre-humans combine the worst of both: brute strength and taste for flesh, fused with ambition and a want for ever more pleasures of the palette, drink, and flesh. You should probably make them sterile to prevent shenanigans.

Effectively, if they're wearing chain mail or better, it applies. Or if they have any armor + shield. I have a character sheet one of my players made that I'll share here though. We play over skype. It looks best in notepad with word wrap on.

Stats
    Name: 
    Player: 
    Class: 
    Level: 
    Alignment: 
    Age: 
    Sex: 
    Current XP: 0
    XP for next Level: 

Ability Scores
    Charisma: 
    Constitution: 
    Dexterity:  
    Intelligence: 
    Strength: 
    Wisdom: 

Saving Throws
    Paralyze: 
    Poison: 
    Breath Weapon: 
    Magical Device: 
    Magic: 

Attack Bonus
    Base AB: 
    Melee AB: 
    Ranged AB: 

Max HP: 
Current HP: 

Armour Class
    Melee: 
    Ranged: 
    Without Shield: 
    With Shield: 
        Surprised: 

Combat Options

        Parry: Characters may decide to defend themselves incombat at the expense of all other possible activity. No other action is allowed during a round in which a character parries, although the play may decide their character is parrying at any point during the round, even out of initiative sequence, provided the character has not yet acted. This gives a + 2 AC bonus for the round, + 4 bonus for Fighters, Dwarfs, and Elves.

Common Activities
    architecture (1 in 6)
        Bushcraft (1 in 6)
        climb (1 in 6)
        Languages ([1 + INT MOD] in 6)
        Open Doors ([1 + STR MOD] in 6)
        Search (1 in 6)
        Sleight of Hand (1 in 6)
        Sneak Attack (1 in 6)
        Stealth (1 in 6)
        Tinker (1 in 6)

Weapons Equipped
        (Name: )(AB: )(Damage: )(Range: )

Clothing/Armor Equipped
        (Name: )(AC: )

Money: 0 gp 0 sp 0 cp
Gems: 

Encumbered Value: 0
EP            Enc   Move>Explore  Combat  Run  Miles/day
0 - 1      Unencumbered    120      40    120     24
2    Lightly Encumbered     90      30     90     18
3    Heavily Encumbered     60      20     60     12
4   Severely Encumbered     30      10     30      6


Inventory 

Non-encumbering Items

Clothing, Normal x1


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Retainers: Name    -    Position - Class/Level    -    HP    -    Wage    -    Share

Physical Description

Seems like you all had a great session. I was reading the preview of Stonehell and was wondering how it would do with LotFP.

Obviously if one doesn't have any of the standardized monsters Stonehell uses (which go against the feel provided in LotFP somewhat) it would be a bit harder. Luckily I happened to pick up the S&W Complete book at my last trip to the webstore, so I'm not in much of a bad boat in that sense.

How much converting did you need to do to get the megadungeon to conform to the LotFP rules, and for materials the Adventure assumes you have access to (monsters, treasure, traps, etc.) what source book(s) did you pull them from?

That's still pretty dramatic, considering most of the rituals involve human sacrifice of particular colors of men.

"The village we pull tribute from yearly was attacked by a roving band of <color> men not native to the area. We must <find a new source of sacrifices/take the sacrifices by force/defend them from this encroachment> or the beast that sleeps in the <bay/volcano/cave/crevasse/ancient tree> will devour us all."

Now, the 'antagonist' humans could have some gimmick, like having space tech or a subdued lesser beast (mutated cyborg elephant, "baby" spawn of shub, some form of robot) and the PCs may have to do a roundabout series of adventures to get what they need to defeat them.

Of course, the more power they seek, the more danger and the more time it will take. Will they be able to save their home from certain doom? Or will the (un)natural hazards of Carcosa stop them before they even have a chance? Only the dice can say.

I was wondering this myself.

There are citadels, villages and castles in the world, from what I understand, so starting off there might be an idea. You'd just need the players to be all the same color.

Likewise, they could wake up in vats in some old snakeman or alien fortress as the power fails, forcing them to ally (taking a line from the Free RPG day Black Crusade adventure.) It also introduces a lot of weird things, such as battling failed experiments or haywire robots, and would give them a leg up if you allowed them to have some tech from it.

It also means that no settlement would allow the group as a whole, if they're all different colors.

Just some ideas I came up with just now.

Ow.

My brain hurts.

Wow, I feel like the baby of this forum. I'm 19, from northern New Jersey, ans I actually started gaming with the first printing of the 3.5e Basic Set; the one with the black dragon. Previously I had really only been exposed to low- or unflashy magic settings in books, such as "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Dark Lord of Derkholm," as well as some of the video games of the time; Zelda: Majora's Mask stands out in my mind as an influence, and I also played final fantasy and whatnot (but I quickly realized that fighters don't get spells and stopped trying to mix the two, haha.)

Todd Lockwood's grainy, sketchy drawings of objects and skeletons and other things in those brown pamphlets really set a few foundation stones in my head with what DnD was, and to me it was this dusky, sepia-and-gray and mysterious world.

Granted, I didn't get any real campaigns or sessions in until a while later (friends never 'got it' and I didn't have an organizational skills to run a game, one of the many failings of the 3.5e DMG was that it wasn't so much a guide as a bunch of rules the players didn't really need to worry about), after I had the 3 core books (I actually got the MM2 before the MM1 ) And I had started playing online in a (now-defunct) community that pulled from a pool of players for its games. The harsh conditions of the shared setting meant experience points were low and treasure lower. Masterwork items were prized and treasured, and +1 items were out of many character's reaches. Eventually though, the community fell apart, and I drifted among other ones over the years.

As I grew older, I learned all the silly things in 3.5, from psionics (a feat that lets you run on the walls!) to wizards living in volcanoes and flying around and nuking the countryside. It left an unsettling feeling with me, it wasn't the DnD I knew. I tried to think on more of a heroic scale level, having played several MMOs by that point and seen some anime. I didn't exactly do it quite right, and only recently (past 6 months or so) been realizing that I needed a different system.

A while back I discovered Gary Gygax's Lejendary Adventure, and while searching for it within some... I'll put it as "Try before you buy" sites, I ended up getting ahold of a large amount of games that started with L. Mostly things that were either too long to bother reading or just looked uninteresing, among those were Living Steel, Legend Quest, and the Lamentations of the Flame Princess Deluxe Edition.

I read through it, loved it, starting following James's Blog and such, and bought the grindhouse a bit after it came out (along with hammers of the gods, grinding gear, and stargazer.) I've been haphazardly following OSR stuff as best I can since, and though I don't have the age-old wisdom of some of the veterans around, I try to understand  and learn more every day.

I've never been one for those 'jump out at you and scare you' style horror media, more for that ever-present sense of dread. AKA I prefer movies like "Knowing" to "The Ring" (still haven't seen it haha!) LotFP also introduced me to Clark Ashton Smith's works, which I feel is a good representation of that dread.

Plus all that dungeon-crawling weirdness is just awesome.

... No one has any input of note to share?

Next is Half-Elves:

Half-Elves
The rare inclusion of an elf into human society is only matched in scarcity by breeding between the two. The result is a half-elf. Slighter than their human stock and less graceful than their elven parentage, half-elves often have trouble fitting in anywhere except with other outcasts. While this makes them learn a great deal with whatever group they tag along with, they posess none of the formal magic training a true-blooded elf will be given.

• Half-elves have a number of "skill points" just as a specialist does, to reflect their varied backgrounds.

Hit points: as elf
Saves: as elf
Exp: as magic-user