So my friend just gave me this as a gag gift. I only know that it's weird...

So my friend just gave me this as a gag gift. I only know that it's weird. Is there anything worthwhile doing with this system?


Also my room-mate just asked if Commisars are codex approved. I don't know enough about 40k to answer him. He said if so, does Guilliman approve of Commisars?

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I would recommend looking up reviews on Google or whatever search engine you use, as well as reading through the book yourself to see if it holds your interest or presses any buttons.

As for your 40k question, there are plenty of general threads on this board. The catalog is useful, so you should use it.

>I would recommend looking up reviews on Google or whatever search engine you use, as well as reading through the book yourself

Why would I look through google? I don't really have any interest in the opinions of people who don't share Veeky Forums's insight to multiple systems.

Regardless, your reply sucks. If you're going to reply with such a thoughtless reply, just don't replying at all.

If everyone answered every matter of opinion with "Google it," Google wouldnt have any answers.

Well first off, if Rick from Rick and Morty rand an RPG, it would be this one. I would know because I was diagnosed with autism and I run it, and Rick implies he has autism while playing Minecraft in the last episode of season 3, though it was subtle so none of you would actually understand that because you're not as intellectually stimulated as I am.
It's also got a great reference to Adventure Time, something you again wouldn't get because you're simply not on my level. Unlike adventure time and like Rick and Morty it's nice and bloody and it's especially fun to see player characters die in this system.

There are many useful tools on the Internet. It seems dumb not to use them on your own initiative and just ask a dumb question that's otherwise easily answered.

Hell, just read the fucking book in front of you and see if you like it, show it to people you may want to play with, instead of being all "hurr durr i create new bread on 4chinz" like some kind of retarded sheep.

I got a laugh ot of it tho

>he doesn't use Veeky Forums as a tool to tap the pulse of an interest group

>read the book
Why would I do it when I know that it's widely considered weird and possibly "not good" unless I want to run it soon? I will read it eventually for fun, but if it's going to be fun to run then I will read it sooner than "just to laugh at it."

fuck i meant

I Liek dis gaem. Don't let Kyle Play-Dough! LOLOLOLOL

I mean, it's not a terrible OSR system. I've run a couple Vornheim games with it and it's pretty fun. It's a functional core rulebook and the weird shit that Raggi is so famous for doesn't really come into play besides the art until you get to the adventures and such.

Play some OSR with it and have fun, I'd say.

Also Commisars aren't codex approved because they aren't part of the Codex Astartes at all. The Codex is specific to space marine organization. Guilliman probably approves of commisars, but there's nothing in the Codex that will actually talk about them because space marines don't have them and the Codex is just about marines.

I haven't heard it mentioned as not good but LoTFP is definitely in the OSR/weird fantasy category. Lots of horrible save or die/worse than death effects.

A lot of this is locked in the monster manual and adventures with stuff like unicorns that kill you in your dreams- the lets play I watched had the party go to a forest otherworld populated with human slaves and deformed rabbit humanoids, featuring a witch who drained life by fucking people to give birth to her rabbit-beastmen slaves, killing one of the pcs in the process. They then teleported into an iron cube that contained enough knowledge to level them up, but as a cost of doing so made clones of themselves both outside of the cube and trapped in the cube who were doomed to die. They had to escape the otherworld by saying the incantation they had used to enter backwards, and if they had not guessed this they would have been trapped for a year.

The mechanics seemed to be a fairly simple d6 dice pool system, but a fairly unforgiving one- I think the most specialized person in the lets play had maybe a 50% chance of success in their task of focus.

Bad? Depends on your taste, it seems fairly unforgiving in the style of early DnD editions. Wierd? Very.

>Veeky Forums is the only interest group on the Internet

>Reading (thing) isn't an effective way of judging for yourself if you'll like (thing)

This is literally why people say bad things about every system, GURPS as much as 3.x.

Reading is way too hard.

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It's literally just D&D Basic but still in print and named after a heavy metal album or something. Download Keep on the Borderland and run it with some buddies for fun times.

>d6 dice pool system
D6s are only used for the skills, and you only ever roll one at a time. The rest of the resolution system uses D20s.

>There are many useful tools on the Internet.
And this is one of them. Sorry OP bumped off one of your precious 40k primarch wank threads or MTG counterfeit threads.

My understanding is that a lot of the flavor and charm of LotFP comes through in the adventure modules.
I think the devs even said they sell way more adventures than core books.

It's Moldvay/Cook D&D with a ton of houserules. Only Fighters get better to-hit, Thieves are reworked, and inventory is slot based instead of weight based.
Even if your familiar with B/X won't notice any other differences because they're all simplifications you'd use on your own without noticing.

I won't say it's put together nicer than B/X (it might be), but it's certainly better organized than BECMI was.


10/10 retroclone, the only things off about it are the Summon spell and all of the art.

Pretty much. It has some pretty wild setting and adventure books made for it. The core rules on the other hand barely differs from Moldvay basic beyond rules for muskets being added in and ascending AC. You can run the game with your standard D&D fare or run Alice in Wonderland with vampires instead

It's a competent retroclone, nothing special. The modules are a mixed bag of sheer brilliance and pure autism.

The modules run with any OSR system. And you can grab any TSR module to use with LotFP, if you're so inclined.

It takes Moldvay/Cook Basic D&D and makes some interesting and sometimes helpful rule tweaks. Its specialist skill system is superior to the thief skills in old school D&D (while still having abysmal rates of success). Its encumbrance system makes things quicker and easier. Its use of ascending AC and attack bonuses makes it a more intuitive system for noobs (and a more recognizable one for folks acquainted with modern D&D). Its desire not to have generic monsters or magic treasure can make it less than ideal for folks seeking to run more typical campaigns (as opposed to the gritty, horror-based stuff it touts), though it is broadly compatible with other retroclones and old school D&D editions (particularly Basic D&D and other retroclones of it), so it's not to difficult to pull monsters and treasure from them. I think it makes a critical mistake in A) boosting AC a bit and B) only making fighters get better at hitting with their attacks as they level, because it can result in well-armored, high-level opponents taking a ridiculous number of strikes to take down. Personally, I'd recommend starting everybody out with a +2 attack bonus (rather than just fighters), and maybe have classes other than fighter get an additional +1 every 3 levels or so. That still puts fighters way out ahead, and still has the other classes lag behind what they would in other old school D&D games, but it means they won't get completely shut out.

Sounds cool. I think they might have given me this in sincerity then. I typically run Fantasy Horror.

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just read this. there is a nice comment by one of the people that writes for Lamentations.

despite him saying you don't need to play the game Lamentations has been the only one that has rules that I like. the others have other systems that don't apeal to me.