This has to be one of my better drawings.....4 years ago, wow.
Lamentations of the Flame Princess. When I first encountered this game I wasn't quite in tune with the OSR. I remember flipping through the Grindhouse Edition and thinking WTF???
I didn't buy it.
Later, I flipped through A Red and Pleasant Land and thought, WTF???
I didn't buy it.
Eventually the genius and creativity of the OSR hit me. Many years, in vain, I spent searching for the perfect system (not limited to D&D) when I realized that anything I wanted to do, can be done with some version of an earlier system. All of those thick tomes I'd been collecting, collectively became obsolete.
The OSR is packed with awesome stuff. It has changed how I view (and purchase) RPGs. If all gaming companies suddenly disappeared, gaming would not. The OSR would thrive. The DIY genie was out of the bottle long before I ever took notice.
What I like about LotFP:
- D6 skills. While LotFP didn't exactly invent this, it utilizes it nicely.
- Turn Undead as a spell. I didn't like this at first, but now I do.
- No fireball or lightning bolt. Magic-Users feel more like practitioners of Black Magic as opposed to super-heroes blasting their way through the dungeon.
- An Encumbrance system that you might actually use.
- A cool Language system. You don't know what languages you speak until you encounter them (a little meta-gamey, but cool.)
- Truly dangerous Summoning rules.
- Incredible Books (ok, some are strange as fuck.) I now own many of them after initially saying, WTF.
The official LotFP character sheet is a good one and so is the modified Veins of the Earth sheet. (I consider Veins of the Earth to be one of the best gaming books ever made.) For the hell of it, I modified my Rynath OSR sheet to LotFP specs. It's incomplete -- no encumbrance stuff, but that's ok. I did this awhile ago as more of a tribute.
Been blogging for a year now.
Good times.
A fellow Lamenter, how have I not seen your blog before?! Also sweet art.
ReplyDeleteThank you KingBrackish, and welcome.
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