A buddy of mine is planning a viking-themed hex crawl using Lamentations of the Flame Princess. He wanted some help on fluffing out the clas...

A while back I propose an adept class that was ripped off from inspired by force-users from the star wars canon. I've been tinkering wi...

The bard is an interesting character concept. On the one hand, it's got a definite style and flair of its own. On the other, there's...

Continuing the last post's theme of giving more character options within the framework of LotFP specifically, today we'll be talkin...

One of the strengths of OSR games is how simple the advancement scheme tends to be. No worrying about builds or feats or whatever. You just ...

A while back I posted some advice to someone on one of the 4chan OSR threads that crop up about starting to get traction for the game they w...

I've had an idea for jedi adepts for LotFP for a while, as they bring to the table something different than either a cleric or magic-us...

A simple martial class that does a decent job representing anything from a Solomon Kane style witch-hunter, to a dedicated dragon-slayer or ...

Brutes are freaks of nature. Whether mutations born of fell magic, unspeakable parentage, or some unseemly devolution, Brutes are born curse...

I've never liked the idea that duel-wielding gives you twice as many attacks. Having two weapons doesn't make you attack twice as qu...

Continuing my LotFP tinkerfest: My biggest bugbear with the current setup is that some rolls are roll-over, others are roll-under. This bot...

Last post , I was chewing on the way LotFP classes work. In the time between, I came up with the following. It needs some testing, but I lik...

We started a new Lamentations of the Flame Princess campaign the other day. I really love the system, and it's become my go-to for OSR s...

Tonight started our all-orc campaign, and it went exactly like I expected it to. "Off the rails" doesn't begin to describe it,...

Yesterday I talked a bit about Iterative design and the inherent problem of The Ship of Theseus . That got me thinking about my own current...

The problem with rules-light games is that after a while, characters can begin to feel mechanically samey. The fewer the options you have to...

In my ongoing Lamentations/AD&D Mashup, I made a couple decisions early on. I've always hated the resurrection spells in D&D, re...

We're now two sessions into our OSR/AD&D/2e/B/x/LotFP campaign that we've dubbed Project: Meatgrinder. In true old school style,...

I was digging around looking for - I'm not sure what, to be honest - and managed to come across some really cool characters sheets for L...

This is something I've come to realize over the years, as I've both GMed and developed games. It's not universally true, but it ...