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LotFP Free RPG Day 2014

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LotFP Free RPG Day 2014

LotFP Free RPG Day 2014

LotFP Free RPG Day 2014

LotFP Free RPG Day 2014

LotFP Free RPG Day 2014

LotFP's Free RPG Day 2014 Campaign

LotFP's Free RPG Day 2014 Campaign

LotFP's Free RPG Day 2014 Campaign

LotFP's Free RPG Day 2014 Campaign

James Raggi
James Raggi
James Raggi
James Raggi
9 Campaigns |
Helsinki, Finland
$8,602 USD $8,602 USD 244 backers
823% of $1,044 Fixed Goal Fixed Goal
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess is a horror/fantasy/adventure tabletop role-playing game produced in Finland. It's as if D█████ & D████, heavy metal played in unsafe basement clubs, and those weird horror movies that don't get MPAA ratings in the US and just get shown at festivals, were all murdered, then disemboweled and their guts dumped into a puke bucket and the resulting slime and juices sipped through one of those crazy loopy straws.

(OK, it's only like that sometimes, but we like to screen out the people who get all snippy about it.)

We've released dozens of things, both in print (and shirts and bookmarks!) and in PDF.

Free RPG Day is a scheme to promote tabletop role-playing games and the retail stores that sell them by organizing a day where people can go to those stores and get free stuff from all sorts of publishers, big and small. Hundreds of stores worldwide participate.

LotFP needs about $5500 to participate in Free RPG Day at the maximum level -- 10,500 copies to be distributed free through participating game stores on June 21, 2014. That's just for printing and shipping to the Free RPG Day warehouse. There are also other production costs (cartography, artwork, etc.) to deal with.

All for a project that's going to be given away both through Free RPG Day and then available as a free PDF (technically Pay What You Want, but most people pay $0) in July.

A small publisher just can't eat that cost. Thus, this campaign. Yeah, we've still got some items that are overdue (including some backer perks from 2013's Free RPG Day campaign... we got the funded adventure to stores though), and the monster Ref book project that's not late but still being worked on, so we've kept this campaign simple to make sure we can deliver these perks in a timely manner without further delaying everything else.

So it's up to you. Should I just lay low until everything else is done, or would this be a worthy thing to blast out to the gaming world? VOTE WITH YOUR MONEY.

Hitting the base goal will allow for the art to get done and the PDF to be released and the perks all fulfilled. Doing actual print runs for retail and how large will depend on how much money this crowdfunding thing generates and how much the perks cost to fulfill. I estimate about $11000 (8200€, give or take), will pay for manufacturing and shipping all the perks, plus the 10,500 print run and shipping to the printer, while accounting for the IndieGoGo fees. If we don't get all the way there, we'll do a smaller print run. No biggee. Up to you.

Here is the free PDF download for our 2013 Free RPG Day release, Better Than Any Man. It's an "Adult Content" release, so you'll need to log in over there at RPGNow in order to see it. It generated a bit of controversy at the time (see here for just one example, with added commentary here), but also achieved critical success (examples here and here and here).

But that was rather insane to just give away. This year we're going for something a little more modest - a 32 page dungeon crawl with a more punk rock visual approach. But what a dungeon crawl it is!

We're doing an à la carte approach to this campaign. NO PERK LEVELS. Just put in the money for the stuff you want. All prices include 2nd class shipping worldwide. Here are the things you can grab:

The Doom Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children

(art by Gennifer Bone)

This is the adventure that will be (hopefully) distributed through hundreds of game stores worldwide. But some of you don't have a participating store nearby, or you want to help out, or you want to get the exclusive content!

With The Doom Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children we intend to once again create the wildest, strangest, craziest, and most unique adventure available for Free RPG Day. The setup is that 100 women in town claim one of their sons is missing. But nobody else, not their husbands, not their other kids, remembers these particular children ever existing. The women all say their children were all born on the same day, in the same year, the descriptions given of the children are all identical, and are even all named Andrew ("It's just a coincidence, stranger things have happened!" they say if pressed about how odd this is). The key to solving this mystery lies in the hills near town, where strange telepathic menace, alien technology, and one strange wizard will be discovered.

Writing by James Edward Raggi IV, Cover and interior art by Gennifer Bone, cartography by Devin Night (he did the God that Crawls module cartography).

When you back the adventure, you will get the full and complete adventure, complete with a numbered alternate cover (which is quite unlikely to be as racy as last year's). Last year we assumed that most people could get to their local stores to pick up a copy and thus offered only alternate covers as part of the campaign... that was a bit of a fiasco. When you go for this one, it's the full adventure this year. Due to Free RPG Day rules, we can't ship out backer copies of the adventure until July 1, and the PDF version can't go up until then either.

This costs 12€, +7€ for each additional copy (including alternate covers) that you want.

Flame Princess T-Shirt

This new shirt is available in short sleeve and long sleeve, with the main design by Jez Gordon:

(a mockup, obviously, actual design is final but how it'll look on the real shirt may differ)

The lower back will have the LotFP logo, and if you go for long sleeves, there will be Dead Sign sleeve prints. All on 5.3oz 100% cotton shirts with all graphics screen printed.

Sizes available: "Classic Fit" S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL, Ladies S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL

The shirts will go to press as soon as the campaign ends and we know what size everyone wants. They will ship immediately upon being received.

Short sleeve shirts cost 20€ for the first one, +17€ for each additional shirt you want. +7€ each to make a shirt a long sleeve with Dead Signs down each sleeve.

These shirts are exclusive to this campaign. (We always order a couple extra in every size to guard against that odd lost package, so they may show up at the table of some convention we go to, but unless you're at the right convention in London or Birmingham or Helsinki or Stockholm at the right time...)

If you're in the US, the shirts will be mailed to you by longtime LotFP supporter Matt Johnsen, so know that your info will go through one extra set of hands.

LotFP Tote Bags

Can't do a fundraiser without tote bags! This is a simple black tote bag with the LotFP logo in white on one side. 12€ for the first one, 10€ for each additional that you want. These tote bags are exclusive to this campaign.

(the company I am using has done these tote bags before, I figure mine will look similar.)

(Gardening Society members going in for 35€ or more total get a free tote bag. If you've already cleared that hurdle to qualify for a tote bag, additional bags are 10€ each.)

Tote bags will go to press and mail at the same time as the shirts.

If you're in the US, the tote bags will be mailed to you by longtime LotFP supporter Matt Johnsen, so know that your info will go through one extra set of hands.

Rafael Chandler's World of the Lost

(cover art by Malcolm McClinton)

What treasures await you within the Temple of Ages That Are Not?

Central Africa, 1551. The metalworkers of Awka rise in prominence, even as the Kingdom of Nri declines. Every year, the Awka who dwell in the shadow of the Great Plateau deliver their tribute to the gods that dwell there.

To acquire this treasure for themselves, the adventurers must face great beasts like the gbahali, mokele-mbembe, and the kholomodumo. Then they must brave a dungeon where memory is an illusion and time is a weapon. No sane person would ever attempt this. But a thousand years of tribute paid in silver... Obviously worth it!

World of the Lost is an adventure for characters levels 1-4, featuring wilderness adventure, dungeoneering, new spells, new magic items, and very old monsters. The module is accompanied by an MP3 soundtrack that provides the Referee with necessary information during play.

Print copies are available only through this campaign! We expect this to ship with the Doom Cave backer copies.

You can get this for 15€, +10€ for each additional copy you want.

BONUS PERKS

Everyone who goes in for at least 15€ gets the Chandler Lost World sandbox in PDF when it's out.

Pembrooktonshire Gardening Society members get a free tote bag if they go in for 35€ or more!

Rafael Chandler will soon be releasing his game Lacerations of the Slain Priestess through his Neoplastic Press imprint. If you go in for at least 50€ in this campaign, you will get the PDF upon release this spring at no additional cost. It will retail for $6.66 rather than his usual Pay-What-You-Want PDF pricing. We will need to forward your email address to Rafael so he may send you the download coupon.

(cover art by Will Towles, color by Claudia Cangini)

Chandler's blurb about the game:

"When our world was struck by the cosmic phenomenon known as the Blastbeat, everything changed. Distorted mutants walk the streets, and dragons soar through blood-red skies.

The fanatical evangelists who now run our country have created an army of robotic drones who police us with cyber-technology, like shining gears in the proverbial machine. Corporate surveillance satellites monitor our every move.

There's only one thing that can save us: Metalheads. Born in the aftermath of the blastbeat, Metalheads are wandering murderhobos armed with strange weapons and magic, defending people against censorship, pollution, racism, nuclear war, and a theocracy built by religious zealots who want to impose their conformist views on the world.

From Devil's Island to the Quarters For the Criminally Insane, from the Belly of the Beast to the Sanitarium, Metalheads crawl through postapocalyptic dungeons (office buildings and strip malls) in search of glory, treasure, and violence.

Lacerations of the Slain Priestess is a reskinned LotFP metal gonzo modern dungeon-crawl action game. It uses dice. It goes well with beer."

LotFP is kinda slow on these crowdfunding things, and that's a fair cop, so here's the skinny:

The Doom-Cave adventure is already completely written and has been played once. Needs editing and layout, and will get another play and might need some minor text revisions before final editing. The cover art shown above is obviously done. Interior art and the alternate cover are still to be done. The dungeon map for publication is already done and delivered. Worst-case scenario is a cut-rate layout going to press, but last year's 3-times-as-big adventure didn't have writing done until mid-March and still got to press on time with the quality art and layout for Free RPG Day.

Shirts and tote bags, as mentioned, will go to press just after the campaign finishes and I learn what sizes we need for everything and ship separate from any books. The design is, as you can see, already done. Previous crowdfunding knickknacks like shirts have shipped ahead of other perks on those campaigns. Track record here is good I think.

Chandler's stuff is more of a crapshoot because I don't have the direct control over his life and pen. But Chandler has been a MACHINE - his 2013 RPG output (nevermind his day job and fiction writing) was 1017 pages and 291,000 words, with Pandemonio, Viewscream, The Starship from Hell, Teratic Tome, Slaughtergrid, Roll XX, and Bad Myrmidon to his credit. He'll get his stuff done in a timelier manner than anything LotFP does on its own. Dude's workrate puts LotFP to shame. Bastard. But we're glad he's helping us out for our fundraiser here! I mention his track record because he is reliable and works fast. Lacerations' status is "90% of the art is done, and most of the text is written by hand, or in my playtest-notebook." If the Lacerations game is late, it'll be late. Not much I can say to that, that's a Chandler self-produced thing. If the Lost World sandbox he's doing for this campaign is late (and it is in the outline stage, it is not yet written), I will ship the Doom-Cave backer copies on July 1 anyway and ship the Lost World adventures separately when they're done. If Chandler drops dead or gets hired by someone that wants FULLTIMEALLTHETIME for too-big money to say no, I'll get someone else on it, another established writer with a rep for getting things out in a timely manner.

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