Lamentations of The Flame Princess LFP1003 Player Core Book: Rules & Magic

LotFP Weird Fantasy RPG is a bespoke reimagining of 1983's Basic Dungeons & Dragons line by Frank Mentzer, channeled through the brutal aesthetic of heavy metal, grindhouse horror, and Satanic Panic fever dreams.What you get is a clear and focused restatement of the Basic D&D rules focused on what those rules do best: survival horror. But unlike the high fantasy safari of Dungeons & Dragons, LotFP Weird Fantasy concentrates on desperate treasure hunters hailing from a grimy replica of our own planet in the Renaissance/early modern period, where magic is a dreadful aberration and ne'er-do-wells who rob tombs and chance brushes with unknown horrors are shunned.The "D&D" you get is a finely-crafted rendition of the classic game: 7 classes include the Cleric, Fighter, Magic-User, Specialist, Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling. Saving Throws are divided into 5 categories, and magic involves spellbooks, memorization, casting, and forgetting. Attacks are resolved with a d20 roll compared with a range of Armor Classes, modified by Dexterity. XP is earned almost entirely by recovering treasure from dangerous adventure sites.Each place where Weird Fantasy differs from Mentzer's Basic D&D really doubles down on the game's weird survival horror vision. Characters have 3 Alignments as in Basic—Neutral, Law, and Chaos—but it represents your character's role in a cosmic conflict regardless of their moral outlook. Certain classes are polarized by Alignment: Clerics must be Lawful, and Magic-Users and Elves must be Chaotic. Furthermore, the rules otherwise treat Elves as inhuman monsters, making them vulnerable to holy water and certain spells cast by Clerics.Another big player-facing difference is that only Fighters get better attack bonuses as they increase in level. This helps really set them apart from the other classes. The Specialist, which is the Weird Fantasy alternative to the Thief class in D&D, has a unique skill system that gives players the option to create a wide variety of characters by specializing in different adventuring skills.Clear and focused rules are offered to allow your Clerics and Magic-Users to create holy water, spell scrolls, potions, and conduct magical research. Unlike other fantasy games, these activities are available from level 1, without requiring any special skills or feats—you just have to invest the time and resources in the fiction.This volume does not include GM-facing rules for developing adventures, monsters, or magic. A companion volume for the referee is supposedly forthcoming, but that stuff is best when it comes from your own imagination anyway.The explicit content warning on the cover is no joke. Parents and caregivers can easily use these rules for playing with anyone they might invite to any D&D game, except for a few of the spells. But the book's art direction is decisively not "family friendly". The images of violence are more explicitly gruesome that what you'll find in most fantasy RPGs, and some of the art depicts risqué imagery and body horror that is not suitable for kids. Frankly, I wouldn't include content like that in my own games, even among adults.

LotFP is a modified version of '81 Moldvay D&D box set rules. It is a "rules light" system with some slick and creative alternatives that even adds more clarity to certain facets of the game. While this book (core rules) is fairly tame for the most part, the adventures and vibe of the game can be a bit gritty in an "adult" fashion. Though operable in any setting that D&D can function in, the "nexus vibe" tends to be somewhere in the 17th century earth....high medieval fantasy (D&D) meets gothic horror meets weird sci-fi, that can lean sexual at times. (though this isn't necessarily part of every adventure) Ultimately, I think the goal of this company is just to offer something uniquely fun while making sure it doesn't suffer the politically correct dull-down that seems to be sucking a bit of life out of the hobby.

This RPG gaming system has become my favorite, I still love AD&D 1e and Call of Cthulhu, but this system combines both of what I love about both of those. The book is a little smaller than I thought it would be, the artwork is beautiful, this book is written for adults 18 years or older. I will still play AD&D and Call of Cthulhu as well. Here is a quote I have taken form the Lamentations of the Flame Princess website that shows that you can use this rpg gaming system with a lot of different gaming systems. "Rules-wise, LotFP belongs to the "Old School Renaissance" family of games that uses the Open Game License to recreate game rules of the late 70s/early 80s, with LotFP's particular twisting of those rules flattening out the power level a bit and emphasizing a more horrific and go-for-the-throat attitude. A PDF version of the full rules without any of the game's artwork is available here for you to use for your own purposes. (The full-version PDF includes all of the art, while the physical version is a beautiful high-quality artifact in its own right.)Being part of the Old School Renaissance also means that every LotFP adventure and supplement is readily compatible with over 100 other RPGs, and their support material is readily compatible with LotFP."

Para tirar logo do caminho. Livro capa dura formato A5 com espinha costurada e papel na qualidade esperada para produtos de rpg de grande mercado (na minha opinião, pior do que aparece nos módulos do mesmo selo, mas no nível do papel do seu dnd tradicional. O que eu sinceramente acho muito fino)Já sobre o conteúdo em si. Excelente pra quem gosta de dnd oldschool (primeira edição) com um sistema de skill bem simplificado e de bom gosto, descrição de magias diferenciadas (mas na veia tradicional no que cabe as regras) e com todas as classes oldschool tradicionais (raça como classe). O ladino nesse jogo foi substituído pelo especialista, que por sua vez é mais competente que as outras classes nas habilidades mundanas. Há também armas que utilizam pólvora nesse sistema, o que dá um tom interessante nas possibilidades de combate. É um sistema letal, simples, nostálgico e ao mesmo tempo original, para quem tem interesse em algo rápido, eficaz e direto ao ponto na sua mesa de rpg.Mais um detalhe, lamentations é um cenário que é voltado a temas adultos, como violência extrema, assim como sexualidade exacerbada. Contudo, as regras podem ser utilizadas sem sequer tocar nesses pontos. É um ótimo sistema independente do tipo de campanha dnd que você pretende jogar.