Posts Tagged by lamentations of the flame princess
| January 15, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
This is the third and final article in my sporadic series on Lamentations of the Flame Princess products: a look at my favorite aspect of Vornheim: The Complete City Kit. (The previous two articles covered Carcosa and Isle of the Unknown.) Like its predecessors, this is a product spotlight and not a review; Phil reviewed Vornheim back in 2011. Vornheim is a neat book in all sorts of ways. Written by Zak S., the author of Playing D&D with Pornstars (which is NSFW and excellent…
| December 4, 2012 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
This is the second article in my rather widely-separated series on three Lamentations of the Flame Princess products for GMs. The first was about Carcosa, a sci-fi/fantasy sandbox setting that would work equally well for D&D (and related games) or Call of Cthulhu; the third will be about Zak Smith’s Vornheim (which Phil reviewed last year). As with Carcosa, I received a free copy of Isle directly from LotFP. Like my take on Carcosa, this isn’t a review — it’s a spotlight on Isle of…
| June 25, 2012 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Carcosa, from Lamentations of the Flame Princess (LotFP), is a weird product. I often like weird things, and I like this one. As a physical artifact, it’s a beautiful book — easily one of the coolest looking gaming books I own. It’s subtle, understated, creepy, and its design is entirely fitting given the subject matter. What is it? Carcosa is a multi-genre sci-fi, horror, and swords & sorcery setting compatible with Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy, and by extension with most old school…
