Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird New World.pdf

Credits

James Edward Raggi IV

Writing, Layout, Cartography

lotfp@lotfp.com

Kevin Mayle

Cover and Interior Art

http://kevinmayle.netaidz.com/main.php

Ramsey Dow

Cartography

yesmar@speakeasy.net

Eero Tuovinen

Cartography

Maria Kyytinen

Proofreading

Matt Johnsen

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An Adventure for Character Levels 4 - 7

Compatible with

Labyrinth Lord, LotFP Weird Fantasy Role-Playing, OSRIC, and Swords &

Wizardry Core Rules

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Author’s Introduction

Whew. Frameworks are so much more difficult to do than actual

completed things .

This adventure is not like most others that are available. It’s not finished .

It’s not ready . But it’s not supposed to be. The idea was to put

“introductory” dungeon and wilderness adventures into the Weird Fantasy

Role-Playing box (which means nothing to you if you’re picking this up

separately… sorry!) to show how things could be done. Dungeon

adventures are easy to conceive. “There’s this place, with these things.

What do you do?” Wilderness adventures really aren’t like that, not

without becoming effectively a dungeon set outdoors.

In trying to conceive an effective wilderness presentation, all I could think

was “Sandbox. Make a sandbox.” Sandbox of course being jargon

meaning a plotless “go anywhere, do anything” area. If I was going to do

that, I certainly didn’t want to make something completely generic. “Oh,

here are some goblins, here’s the castle, and there are the dwarfs and

elves.” Yawn .

Why not make it big? And empty? Since this was conceived in the heart

of winter, and I was in the middle of reading many books about the search

for the Northwest Passage, making a maritime arctic area made sense. (I

now write this in during a nasty heat wave in the middle of summer,

making that last push of inspiration difficult to generate!) If I wanted a

Northwest Passage-like quest to be possible, then the area had to be big.

Really big.

And when the area is that big, making a coherent “plot” and fully stocking

the wilderness becomes impossible. The core adventure assumption really

becomes exploration . Add in some sample areas to show what could be

done, flesh a couple of them out so there is some ready-made adventure

of the usually understood type, and a final concept is born. All that was

left to do was to write it.

It ended up as an interesting experiment. Usually I like my adventures

fully detailed and I like presenting them that way, but this format took me

out of my comfort zone. I don’t know if this is so much an adventure as

a setting, but either way I hope you find it to be an inspiration to your

campaign and a help in making the sort of adventures that are different

than what you have done before. Adventuring in the Far North can be a

serious detour for a campaign, or can be the focus of a campaign, but it

certainly won’t be the same as the Usual Assumed Fantasy.

Drop me an email at lotfp@lotfp.com and let me know how Weird New

World works in your campaign.

James Edward Raggi IV

July 11, 2010

Helsinki, Finland

Referee Introduction

This adventure takes classic fantasy gaming activities such as resource

management and exploration and applies them to a large scale.

You will need to prepare extensively to use this adventure as it is not a

matter of simply placing the location somewhere in your campaign world

and using it as-is. Fortunately, placing this in your campaign world is

easy. Just put it far to the north of your normal campaign setting and use

it as the arctic area.

Preparing to use it for play will be a little more complicated, and players

will need to undertake extensive preparation before adventuring in the

area. Player Characters will need access to a large sailing ship and a good

amount of supplies before adventuring in this region, and this is both

expensive and time-consuming. Details of ship, crew, and supplies are

vital to successful adventuring in the area.

You will need to give the players a reason to adventure in this area as

players are not likely to go through all of this preparation spontaneously.

Also, the environment is cruel: as written, it is very easy to adventure for

months of real-time and years of in-game time without finding much of

anything, and without a focus any open environment will eventually get

boring.

The detailed encounter areas in this module are all but sketches, with each

being a potential full adventure in itself. Two locations, one of the Great

Shipwrecks and the Pirate’s Treasure Cave, have been fully detailed as

examples of what could be done with the rest, but even these leave out

essential details. How does one find that Treasure Cave? Players aren’t

going to run across it by accident on a map of this scale. A map or other

ways to communicate its location must be delivered to the players and

that is up to the individual Referee to arrange.

Other areas are less detailed but more-or-less ready to run (Frozen

Stonehenge) but these are even less in the context of a living world. Again,

more detail is needed to make them come alive. Most of the encounter

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