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Are they the same thing?  Are they different?  Do they stack?

Surprise (pg. 56): No mention of modifiers to attacks, just says "The foes of surprised characters can take a free action before Initiative is rolled".

Attacking from Behind (pg.58): "If a character is attacked from behind by an enemy he is not aware of, he loses all Dexterity and shield modifiers to AC and the enemy receives a further +2 bonus to hit."

The Character Sheet U. (pg.167): "Surprised AC is Melee without shield of Dexterity modifiers, with a further 2-point penalty".

Does these mean that a Surprise Attack from Behind is effectively a +4 attack (-2 to AC, +2 to attack), with loss of shield and Dex mods (+6 if you're a Specialist Sneak Attacking)?

For that matter, does Surprise/Attacking from Behind also remove negative Dex modifiers to AC?

It seems to me that, so long as you don't abuse a charmed person/monster, they are charmed permanently.  Is this correct?

Who of us aren't making an Alternate Earth setting for LotFP?

Anywho, I've been having a lot of fun finding parallels in the real world for a fantasy setting.  I started with looking into recreating the area around me, to see the state of Georgia rebuilt in a D&D light.  I then expanded my view to include what Europe might look in this same setting.

First, one rule that covers the entire setting:

The concept of a 'nation' barely exists, with loyalties lying with a family, a city-state, or an organization.

Atlanta/Atlantis

I still haven't quite decided if I wanted to change the name to Atlantis as that might be a little too on-the-nose.  In any event, the city that is normally known as Atlanta is now an abandoned realm.  Rumors differ as to the cause, but all know that some disaster struck there, and now only the most foolish adventurers seek out the fabled treasures that lie beneath the gaze of the purple towers.

Stone Mountain

There is a mountain in the state of Georgia called Stone Mountain.  Coincidentally, the skull-shaped mountain presented in B/X D&D is also called Stone Mountain.  Isn't that ... interesting?

Hinesville

There is a Hinesville, GA.  In some settings, halflings refer to themselves as hin.  Therefore, all halflings come from Hinesville (aka, Hin's Village)!

Land of the Fey, aka Feycia

The country we now know as France was once called Francia by the Romans, which is Latin for Land of the Franks.  In this setting, it shall be known as Land of the Fey, or Feycia by some human lands.  The major families of the Feycian aristocracy are entirely made up of elfen families, who are supported by minor families that consist of both elfs and humans.  These elfs are the haughty elfs normally regarded as high elves in other settings.  In a similar manner, I'm thinking about making the Native Americans wood elfs to fit with the themes.

Albion, aka Angleland

Once the home of giants that were driven north by elfs and dwarfs, human settlers came and finally expunged their numbers to build their kingdom of Albion.  Enemies of the Angles (most notably the elfs) like to tell a different story of their conquest, however; rather than kill off the giants, they settled and mated with them.  As evidence for these insulting remarks, one merely points to the somewhat prodigious height of a common Angle.

That's all I have so far, and I am also working on how to fit Germany, Italy, Greece, and the Iberian peninsula into this.  I am also probably going to make Egypt, or Aegyptus, the home of an empire of gnolls who support their society with slave labor.  The major wilderness areas of the world will be most of the Americas, and I'm also thinking about Russia as well.

The book only seems to give the amount of food for hunting.  And if it's the same amount for foraging, I don't really see why you would ever want to hunt, as foraging doesn't take up extra time while traveling (as far as I can tell) and doesn't require or expend arrows.