Free RPG Day Kickstarter is Live!

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Anyway, with previous crowdfunding efforts still outstanding there was some considerable hand-wringing about doing this one (and I put it out there here, as previously mentioned on this blog), but the strict deadline for Free RPG Day forced my hand. However, you'll notice the participation of other publishers - this is to make sure there are items that can be delivered immediately after payments are deposited at campaign's end. And previous supporters can get an added doohickey at no extra charge on the current campaign. And nobody working on any of the outstanding material is involved with the new Kickstarter stuff*.

As for the adventure itself, large parts of the innards are reworked portions of Insect Shrine of Goblin Hill, Rainville's doing a ton of new art for it (and the map for Navelgazer), Cynthia Sheppard and Amos Orion Sterns and Dyson Logos and Geoffrey McKinney and Zzarchov Kowolski and more are involved with Better Than Any Man and/or the reward adventures.

As more art and stuff comes in, I'll be updating the Kickstarter page.

* Two exceptions: Jez is in the middle of doing layout for Seclusium but he made two slight adjustments to an existing art piece for Better Than Any Man, that's already done and took negligible time. And since Sheppard can't get started on interiors for Seclusium until that layout is done, she's doing a quick cover for Zzarchov's Lamentations of the Gingerbread Princess.

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GrognardGames Interviews LotFP! On Video!

Lots of comments (over 100!) before we even finished the interview. Go watch!

Vornheim: Golden Crown Award Winner!

Best Supplement for a Role-Playing Game over the last TEN YEARS!

Read about it here!

There are still print copies of Vornheim available out there in distro-land, and of course PDFs are available from where they've always been available from.

LotFP Crowdfunding Updates

LotFP Hardcover: Layout complete, interior artwork in progress.

Qelong: Interior layouts complete, interior artwork in progress.

Seclusium: In Layout

Broodmother: Text and rough maps submitted, waiting to slot this in to some actual play so it can go into layout as soon as Seclusium's layout is done.

Towers Two: I've seen outlines, no draft yet but Brockie's in almost daily communication with me about his progress.

Horror Among Thieves: Kelvin's played it, showed off a lot of art and maps for it, I'm still awaiting the text.

Rob Conley's Civil War Sandbox (bonus item): Conley and I are in contact, work is progressing, no final draft yet.

Adventure #10 (bonus item): Text is complete and edited. Just needs layout; this will be an art-free project.

Early Modern Supplement: I admit I don't consider this a *front burner* project because the Monolith/God that Crawls backers already received more pages than promised, but they will get this supplement at no cost when it's ready. Rich Longmore is in the middle of a massive art order for this book (on hold until he finishes Qelong) and it will be a 64 page book.

You might want to look at this concerning things happening next month that I mentioned last summer. I'd wait on it if I could, but it is time sensitive. Nobody working on any of the above projects will be involved and plenty of perks will be delivered at the campaign's end.

If you ever have questions, you've got a bunch of contact info for me on the right side there just under the blog banner.

Plug Plug! Sorcerer Kickstarter + Grindhouse PDF Sale!

First up, 8 days left in the Sorcerer Upgrade Kickstarter. $25 + shipping gets you TWO BOOKS (rulebook + supplements book) and it's funded so no guessery about the whole thing.

Bbbuuuutttttt... one of the $50 perk levels is this: "If 20 people pledge for this reward, then Jim Raggi and [Ron Edwards] conduct an unrehearsed, topic-unlimited, candid, and complete conversation to be posted online."

Sound good to you? Go for it.

Second...

The LotFP Grindhouse set is 40% off over at DriveThruRPG as part of their New Year, New Game promotion. Sale lasts until January 14.

Remember if you order the Grindhouse Edition now (in any format), you can re-download the PDF when the art and everything is ready for the new layout.

New Rules & Magic PDF to Download! Updates!

Yeah, everything still seems to move at a glacial pace. But what is happening:

The new LotFP Grindhouse Rules & Magic PDF, art-free version, can be downloaded here. If you see issues with it, report them here (previous notes have not yet been addressed). New art to meet the demands of the new layout has been commissioned. Eric Lofgren will be handling that.

Kenneth Hite's Qelong is 95% done with layout and interior art has been assigned. Rich Longmore (Carcosa artist) will be handling that.

Vincent Baker's The Seclusium of Orphone of the Three Visions is in layout. I hope to show you the Cynthia Sheppard cover art soon.

Kelvin Green has posted an update about his Horror Among Thieves here.

More info on Towers Two and Broodmother Sky Fortress as I receive it.

LotFP T-Shirts Now Available!

LotFP Flame Princess designs are now available from IPR! Size S-XXXL and ladyfit shirts size S-XL.

Here is the shirt design (by Jason Rainville):

It's a 7-color design screen printed on a red Fruit of the Loom 3930 model 100% pre-shrunk cotton 5.0oz shirt.

Here is a photo of the shirt hot off the press over at Liberated Images (the fine folks that have done all of LotFP's RPG shirts to date), taken on an Iphone dark and kinda fuzzy:

For those of you in Europe, I'll be getting a supply of shirts soon to sell directly from the LotFP store, and maybe I'll get a really nice pic of it on a halfway decent looking person posted.

(there's been a general restock of LotFP releases at IPR as well... first one in over a year!)

Buy the darn thing so I can do the other Rainville shirt design I've got sitting here. :D And Alfrey's wanting to do one too...

Now I need to think of some sort of cool reward thing for people that post pictures of themselves wearing the shirt.

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Tales of the Scarecrow PDF Now Available!

If you contributed to both the LotFP Hardcover and any of the July Adventure crowdfunding things, you should have gotten an email with a free link to Tales of the Scarecrow. Let me know if you haven't.

For everyone else, Tales of the Scarecrow is available in PDF right now! Buy it here. It'll be up at the LotFP store and other outlets soon.

The print version will be available when all the crowdfunding stuff ships. Copies will be very limited.

Now I know that those of you who were in for the Monolith/God crowdfunding were promised an Early Modern sourcebook. Good news is you're going to get it, and it's being done right. New cover art by Lane Brown has been done and Rich Longmore is in the middle of 15 new pages of art for it, with samples below. So it'll be more than a 16 page supplement. :D

Tales of the Scarecrow Reviews!

Dreams in the Lich House
They Might Be Gazebos!
Untimately

LotFP Anniversary Week Sale! NOW!

From now until I get home from an overnight trip sometime on December 9, WE CELEBRATE! What do we celebrate?

• December 6 is Finland's Independence Day (95!)
• December 7 is my birthday! (38...)
• December 8 is my wedding anniversary! (3? holy poop)

How do we celebrate?

• 50% off all PDFs over at RPGNow!
• 50% off the 2011 items still in print over at the LotFP Store! (Grindhouse, Carcosa, Isle of the Unknown print editions!)

(you can leave comments and questions here or email to lotfp@lotfp.com)