erik wrote:Tonight my friends are coming to my house along to play a one-off Lamentations of the Flame Princess game since one of my buds wanted to run it. I just looked at the rules from a free stripped down version from drivethrurpg. It's like, old school D&D made extra bland. On the plus side the stripped down version has none of the mind-scarring art that I saw on the somethingawful review of it in my research.
Pray for me.
That's kind of a weird sentiment to express. Partially because a big part of the uniqueness and implied flavor of LotFP comes from the art. So you're saying "If you take this game and remove the most distinctive feature, then the result is kind of bland."
Even then, Raggi tried to make, for example, the spells section more flavorful than the D&D default. Here's the writeup for Contact Other Plane.
LotFP wrote:
The stars are repositories of all knowledge. By means of this spell, the Magic-User enters in communion with the star of his choice in order to
receive wisdom and information. The caster asks questions of the star, and the star answers. The stars resent such intrusions and give only brief answers to questions, and they often lie. All questions are answered with “yes,” “no,” “maybe,” “never,” “irrelevant,” or some other one-word answer.
The caster must concentrate on maintaining the spell in order to ask questions at the rate of one per round. A question is answered by the star during the same round. The caster may choose how many questions to ask, and which star to ask. The chart below gives a sample of possible stars, with the brightest stars being the most likely to answer truthfully, but others may be available as the Referee chooses. First roll on the table below to see if the star will give a truthful answer. Then roll to see if the caster is possessed by a psychic beast roaming the interstellar ether between the caster and the answering star. The caster may ask as many questions as he dares risk, although of course possession ends the spell immediately.
A character that becomes possessed will remain that way for the same number of weeks as the total number of questions asked.
And then there's the chart of the stars and their stats. Now, you could argue that this is a writeup that is
not conducive to play, or that it's
too verbose, or that the flavor is
dumb, but I have no idea how can read LotFP and come away thinking that the game is bland.
Out beyond the hull, mucoid strings of non-baryonic matter streamed past like Christ's blood in the firmament.
