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For project sewn week 3 challenge, it is about graphics which is great as my boring wardrobe is in desperate need of more colorful prints apparels.After seeing the many beauties sewn with Deer and Doe patterns, I had a mini shopping spree done few weeks back, and luckily the patterns arrived just in time.
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Pattern used: Belladone from Deer and Doe
Material used: A cotton calico print fabric from joann. It was under the red tag section, $5 usd per yard and I purchased 3 yards straight away. BUT! when I got home and went through Joann.com, the same fabric and design is selling at $3.60usd per yard. I felt kind of cheated. How can the prices differ so much when they are supposed to be under the same company?
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Beautiful fabric! Nice work.
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This seems to be a very popular dress and your version is just lovely on you. X
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LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More than 20 parents from Bullis Charter School (BCS) representing each grade level (K-8) staged a peaceful protest outside the District offices Thursday morning to express their outrage and frustration over the Los Altos School District's (LASD) decision to lock teachers out of their classrooms just days away from the start of the school year.
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BCS failed to sign the facilities usage agreement they were given in April, so they don't get access. That's like refusing to sign a lease on an apartment you are moving into. The landlord just won't give you a key.
BCS is a horrible blight on the community and they should have their charter revoked at the earliest opportunity.
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The Doom-Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children
Andrew K.
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Date Added: 07/25/2014 03:21:58
Another example of the game design theory of, "if I use enough f-bombs and try to be 'edgy' they won't notice how mediocre (at best) this module is."
[1 of 5 Stars!]
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The Doom-Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children
Alexander L.
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Date Added: 07/21/2014 06:16:05
Originally published at: http://diehardgamefan.com/2014/06/26/tabletop-review-lamenta-
2013′s Free RPG Day saw Lamentations of the Flame Princess take part with their controversial release, Better Than Any Man. As the back of this year's release mentions, several stores banned or outright hid the release for their customers. I can confirm this as one of the stores I went to did just that. However, even a Pikachu loving fool like myself walked away extremely impressed with Better Than Any Man. it was a top notch solid affair from beginning to end and it walked away with our "Best Free Release" in the 2013 Tabletop Gaming Awards. This year, LotFP is back with a new adventure that is actually one of the zaniest, cruelest and funniest release they have put out yet. Born of spite and black humour, The Doom Cave of the Crystal Headed Children is exceedingly cutthroat, extremely lethal to any character that enters it (probably best as a one shot if you are at all attached to your characters) and there is a good chance you will be massacring double digits worth of four year old as if they were goblins or orcs in some of those other fantasy style role playing games. You've been warned.
So not only does the adventure have one of the weirdest and most honest titles I've seen for a recently released adventure (Go OSR!), but it also has a great story hook. Characters enter a village where over 100 madwomen claim to have given birth to a small blonde boy named Andrew four years ago. All of these Andrews are different people mind you – it's not the same one kid. Crazier yet, the mothers all know the different Andrews but no one else in the village knows what they are talking about and can not remember these women ever giving birth to children similar in name and look all at roughly the same time. Also, these women were quite sane up until recently, so what the hell happened? That's why games have PCs – to figure crap like this out all while gaining an excuse to murder and pillage!
This story hook of course brings characters to the doom cave where they will indeed encounter many children with crystals embedded in their craniums. Surprisingly, this is one of the more mundane things in this adventure. You will face crazy button that will do anything from improve your stats to give your character incurable cancer via severe radiation poison. There are possible alien abductions or the extinction of all life on the planet including bacteria. Heck, both may happen in your play through. As such, I reinforce my earlier comment in this review that The Doom Cave of the Crystal Headed Children is best played as a one shot unless you are pretty much born and bred on Dungeon Crawl Classics or LotFP and thus have learned not to invest any emotional ties to your characters at all for they exist only to die in horribly unspeakable fashion. At the very least surviving characters will end up with at least some stats switched around and having to live with the stigma of being a child murderer – even creepy semi-automaton test tube baby ones.
Aside from the children, The Doom Cave of the Crystal Headed Children is pretty much your standard dungeon crawl in layout, form and function. It's the specific encounters and NPCs that truly separate this adventure from the pack. For example, you don't really have an end boss or bad guy behind the story hook. You have a guy who fucked around (literally) with strange alien doo-dads. He doesn't really seem like a bad guy, even if he has a super villain laugh and an army of toddlers. Most bad guys destroy and murder wantonly in these fantasy games. Wiki Dot Pod…is just kind of there doing his own thing for the most part. Sure he THINKS he should rule all that he surveys, but he's pretty content sitting and staring at a big crystal all day.
As well, there aren't a lot of monsters or antagonists to fight in this adventure. Well, aside from the crystal headed children, but you might not end up fighting with them. They might actually become quasi allies or guides to the dungeon for your team. Unless of course, your players stick sharp things through soft things that scream and bleed first, and converse second. Then they have to deal with an army of tiny kiddies bent on their demise. No, for the most part, players will be killed by their own greed and curiosity. Death or painful maiming is in nearly every room, but it will only be encountered if characters do stupid things like explore or examine the cursory details of their surroundings. As this is a RPG, this is most likely the course of action people will take and thus their characters will die in manners ranging from a dungeon collapse caused by a sailing ship to being wiped from existence by an omniscient alien jellyfish. My personal favorite is when a character becomes The Crystal King and discovers that with great power comes a nigh permanent headstand. Treat The Doom Cave of Crystal Headed Children as you would the Tomb of Horrors in the hands of a GM who does copious amounts of hallucinogenics, because the effect WILL be similar.
Overall, I absolutely loved this adventure. It's a very dark and funny piece. In fact, I kind of felt like I was playing HOL rather than LotFP during my time with this piece. I think it's best kept out of the hands of young children though due to mature (and gorey) themes and gamers that treat our hobby as SERIOUS BUISNESS with no room for mirth. For everyone else, this is a terrific oneshot that really highlights how bizarre and macabre Lamentations of the Flame Princess can be. It's such a crazy piece that I can see it polarizing some gamers, especially those new to the hobby who might walk away worrying that every adventure involves ejaculation, encountering Jesus Christ and having your feet transmogrified into those of a pachyderm. Would I play this adventure again and run it for friends? Damn right! Would I give it to someone completely new to tabletop RPGs? Oh my, no.
I do feel that The Doom Cave of the Crystal Headed Children was by far the best release for Free RPG Day 2014 which gives LotFP that honor two years running. Even better, if you pick this up, there a link to not only download last year's Better Than Any Man, but also the core rulebook (sans art) for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. That's insanely awesome and makes hunting down this adventure all the more worthwhile. I can't wait to see what LotFP has for us next Free RPG Day as this is one area where they definitely put all the other competitors to shame.
[5 of 5 Stars!]
Vornheim: The Complete City Kit
Chris M.
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Date Added: 07/09/2014 16:20:47
I bought this product for 2 reasons.
1) I've heard so many good things about Vornheim from a bevy of blogs I follow and whom opinions I respect, I figured it was about time I purchase the pdf. I'm glad I did as I was not disappointed by the content. The book is chock full of inspirational ideas and story nuggets perfect for any fantasy campaign.
2) I wanted to show my financial and moral support for "Zack Smith" who authored this work. To let him know he's not alone in the gaming community in his disdain towards the SJW's (Social Justice Warriors) and Cultural Marxist who constantly attack him and seek to control discourse in the on-line RPG community. Keep on fighting the good fight Zak.
First they came for the Simulationist Gamers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Simulationist Gamer.
Then they came for the Tactical Combat Gamers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Tactical Combat Gamer.
Then they came for the Old-School Gamers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Old-School Gamer.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
~ Gwarh
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Vornheim: The Complete City Kit
Anders N.
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Date Added: 07/08/2014 03:37:14
It's rare to find a product this evocative; I've only done so a few times before. It combines inspiration and a touch of odd with soo much utility. It'll be one of your best friends at the table. It's sad that it's out of print right now, because I would really love a physical copy.
[5 of 5 Stars!]
Vornheim: The Complete City Kit
Andrew K.
Verified Purchaser
Date Added: 07/08/2014 03:07:27
If you search the words "city guide" on drivethrurpg.com you can find everything in this guide that is even remotely useful from other people who can write in a coherent style.
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Vornheim: The Complete City Kit
Jeremy F.
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Date Added: 07/07/2014 21:37:15
Vornheim is a fantastic toolkit for building a decadent fantasy urban sprawl campaign. This short book packs a mighty wallup!
You should not expect this to be Encyclopedia Vornheim. It instead provides a skeletal framework and palette on which you can layer, via the tools in the book, your version of Vornheim. Its a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, tethered to the wire table, storm brewing, waiting for the bolt of lightning to ignite the life within.
Having already had a physical copy of this book, I wanted a PDF copy as well. The physical book is amongst my most treasured RPG books. It is a reliable source for inspiration, not because it is a complete setting, but because it evokes a richness of setting that could never be fully explored.
[5 of 5 Stars!]
Vornheim: The Complete City Kit
Eltup E.
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Date Added: 07/07/2014 17:29:50
the only remotely useful parts are already free blogposts on the dude's website
I guess I'm not a table junky, and I find the content mostly unimaginative tween's first black metal style garbage. Tried using it in play but it's more cumbersome and less interesting than anything I made up on the spot, especially with the trite and juvenile assumed setting and terrible art.
[1 of 5 Stars!]
A Single, Small Cut
Alexander L.
[Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 05/16/2014 07:18:02
Originally published at: http://diehardgamefan.com/2014/05/16/tabletop-review-a-singl-
A Single, Small Cut is an adventure for Lamentations of the Flame Princess by author Michael Curtis, who I normally associate with Dungeon Crawl Classics. He's written some great adventures for that system like Intrigue at the Court of Chaos, The Old Gods Return, and The Sea Queen Escapes. He's also the author of The Chained Coffin which is currently on Kickstarter and smashing through stretch goal after stretch goal. Since I enjoy his stuff it and it's been a while since I've reviewed a LotFP release, I thought I could kill two birds with one stone with this one.
A Single, Small Cut is a short little adventure than can be played in a single session. The PDF is eleven pages long, but only seven pages are the actual adventure. The other four pages are the covers, the title page and a map. The adventure is mostly text. Mechanics only show up in the form of three antagonist stat blocks and a large side bar about the adventure's MacGuffin. This means you can easily convert A Small, Single Cut to other fantasy games if you prefer, but the flavor and atmosphere will remain LotFP style weirdness no matter what you convert it to. The adventure is designed for six Level 3 characters, but the text does say you can adjust it to higher or lower levels if needed. So all, in all, A Small, Single Cut is a pretty flexible adventure.
In many ways, A Single, Small Cut is about the hypocrisy of religion and a look at how many zealots become the very thing they hate, if not worse. In this case, we have the Order of Kites who have pledged to stamp out heathens in the name of the Church by any means necessary. The leader of this order used a small red bell to summon an extraplanar creature known as The Corrector of Sins to the world. Yes, it's pagan magic that probably invokes a demon, but hey – there were horrible pagans to uproot and eviscerate! Upon the leader's death, the demon summoned by his bell was no longer able to be controlled, so it was buried with their leader and left undisturbed for decades (although how did they put the Corrector back after they realized it could no longer be controlled).
This is where the adventure starts as well as where the PCs come in. A magic user and his band of rogues have discovered the whereabouts and powers of the bell and have decided to claim it for their own, not realizing it no longer functions as it did all those years ago. To get it, they are willing to murder the entire congregation of a local church. Unfortunately for everyone involved the Corrector of Sins has special abilities related to humanoid corpses and is pretty ungrateful to the band of baddies who have summoned it to this plane anew. Can the PCs stop both a cadre of mortal evil doers as well as a being beyond mortal comprehension? What ensues is a three way dance of chaos that players will be lucky to survive.
The adventure, as I have previously stated, is a short one. It can easily be played in a few hours or less. Most of the experience is combat related. You get a short set up of talking heads at the beginning of the piece (which I suppose could become extremely long and drawn out depending on the group makeup, but it is unlikely) followed by madcap violence as each of the three sides tries to do away with the other. Honestly I think there is more story in the backstory setup than the adventure itself, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. As the adventure is so short and straightforward, it can definitely be used to introduce people to the LotFP rules-set. There are several plot threads left dangling at the end of the affair thanks to the amount of back story provided. This means curious PCs and enterprising GMs can probably create a few adventures from the aftermath…if anyone survives the experience, that is. The entire affair is a lot of fun and has some definite macabre comedy moments, such as what happens when if the players find the bell.
I really enjoyed this piece. It's definitely a weird and memorable adventure and highlights the strengths of both Curtis' writing style as well as the old school mix of cruelty and bizarreness that is LotFP. With a price tag of only two dollars, fans of either DCC or LotFP will definitely get their money's worth out of this purchase. Again, the adventure should be playable in an hour or three depending on the troupe's play style (Hack and slash Vs talking heads). Whether you want to play a session but don't have enough time or are looking for something short and sweet to showcase what LotFP is all about, A Single, Small Cut is an excellent option you should strongly consider.
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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A Single, Small Cut
Rob M.
Verified Purchaser
Date Added: 05/09/2014 08:14:54
A short but effective encounter, perfect for when your PCs inevitably need to get to a church for healing or curse removal.
A Single Small Cut is not so much an adventure as it is an extremely detailed description of a particularly sinister magical item and the shambling monstrosity that it summons. Simple and to the point, this will likely take an entire game session to resolve, but would require minimal prep by the Referee.
[4 of 5 Stars!]
Better Than Any Man
Jim M.
Verified Purchaser
Date Added: 04/14/2014 23:36:45
Although I am not a big fan of LotFP overall, I found BTAM to be well written, if gory, adventure. Despite the claims of many, the adventure is really just an "against the evil cult" plot line. The quasi-historical setting and the invading army as time pressure device are both interesting elements that help make the story feel a little different. The former may be unique but the latter has appeared before. The BDSM/torture porn aspect is a little heavy handed and overdone but that is pretty typical of LotFP.
So what are the good and bad points? In its favor, the adventure is well constructed and the production is good, with excellently drawn illustrations and maps. I plan on using it pretty much as written with the exception that I will be putting it in a more medieval fantasy setting. If you scratch the surface, it is easy to see the basic bones of the plot and that the Thirty Years War setting is just a frame that can be adjusted at will. Interestingly, many of the individual encounter areas, particularly The Infinite Tower and Goblin Hill can easily be removed and used by themselves in other places, making the adventure even more useful.
On the downside, if you aren't into the gimp/dominatrix vibe, it's a little hard to eliminate some of the content but certainly not impossible. Jumping into an orgy to get info is just one example, I also feel that, considering some of the supposed influences, the adventure is lacking in terror. There is nothing in here to terrify characters (things that go bump in the night) even if there is plenty to horrify them (severed body parts and bloody disemboweled corpses).
Final thoughts: Honestly, BTAM represents a huge amount of usable content for free (unless you want to pay). Just don't leave it lying around; some people just wouldn't understand.
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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LotFP Rules & Magic Free Version
Jim M.
Verified Purchaser
Date Added: 04/14/2014 21:44:16
Let me start by saying it's free! Download it for curiosity, if for nothing else. Check out the 1st level MU spell Summon. If you are feeling generous, download the full version for $5.
I won't go into a review of the mechanics of LotFP, as others have done that well enough, both here and elsewhere. As others have pointed out, it's basically a D&D B/X retro-clone. LotFP is well written and has nice production but is otherwise pretty standard. There isn't even anything particularly "weird" about it.
The areas that separate it from other RPGs are it's style and tone. The authors seem to have a greater than average preoccupation with sex and violence. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy both sex and violence in my RPGs, just not together or in such prevalence. LotFP feels more S&M/B&D than weird fantasy and if that's your thing, go for it. For me, it's a little much and seems to be bloody just for the sake of being bloody, not for any particular purpose. It does fit a particular, if small, niche for hyper-violent games. It's sort of a genre in and of itself. It occupies the same position in the world of RPGs as Norwegian Viking Black Death Metal does in music: Some people really love it, most do not.
[2 of 5 Stars!]
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Forgive Us
Jonas M.
Verified Purchaser
Date Added: 03/28/2014 13:45:11
Forgive Us feels like D&D adventure that would have collided with Call of Cthulhu adventure. So it is pretty much perfect for LotFP or some other roleplaying game that does grim and perilous adventures well. I could imagine this as good scenario for The Savage World of Solomon Kane RPGe or WHFRP. It would be interesting to see more from Kelvin Green in role of designer and not as illustrator he is no doubt already familiar to many.
If you like old Warhammer adventures like Death on the Reik or the sort of material that appeared in White Dwarf back when it roleplaying game magazine you might like this.
I can not comment on quality of the conversion notes as I am not familiar enough with the system they are for.
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Forgive Us
Ben F.
Verified Purchaser
Date Added: 03/16/2014 16:44:21
I played this in the original playtest run by the author, Kelvin. Thus personal bias may creep into this brief review of the main game (I have not played the mini-games yet).
The main game is a fun murder-mystery story riffing off The Thing as a previous reviewer rightly said. See their review for details on the plot etc etc. All spot on. Although it was nearly 2 years since we played it - it was an interesting adventure with a variety of ways in which it could be solved.
It is lovely having the book. It is a high production OSR/ early WFRP feel / look product - one that would have set well in the days of Hogshead/ Green Ronin's publication schedule for example.
Kelvin has done an excellent job of creating a total art piece - the maps, graphics, art and text all sit well together and complement each other. The A5 format works very well too with the adventure - something that one could easily put into your cargo trousers/ coat pocket. Fading Suns - whilst looking totally different - was another game which comes to mind which had the same art/text synergy. Handy when the writer can draw and does the art. Too often art in rpg products is poor unless it is done by a major company.
Great example of how to create an rpg product. And a bargain at that!
[5 of 5 Stars!]
Scenic Dunnsmouth
Alexander L.
[Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 03/14/2014 07:32:32
Originally posted at: http://diehardgamefan.com/2014/03/14/tabletop-review-scenic--
Some published adventures are more fun for the DM than for the players. Now I don't mean adventures where the DM actively tries to murder all the PCs and has fun running the game for everyone else. I mean the type of published adventures that turn planning the adventure into a game. Usually these type of adventures involve some sort of random generation so that the DM and players can reuse the same product and get a different experience each time. The first of these adventures that I can recall is the classic In Search of the Unknown by Mike Carr for Basic Dungeons & Dragons way back in 1979. There's something special about that adventure if you've ever run it, although it's fairly generic if you've ever just played it.
Which brings me to Scenic Dunnsmouth for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. Like In Search of the Unknown, a good portion of the adventure is generated randomly although everything else about the two are completely different. In Search of the Unknown is your basic hack and slash dungeon crawl and all that randomizes are the monsters in different locations. Scenic Dunnsmouth is a mash-up of D&D and Call of Cthulhu in the same way the name is a mashup of two popular Lovecraftian locations: Innsmouth and Dunwich. The end result is a very weird and creepy location for the PCs to explore, which will harbor at least one, but possibly two or more other secrets to uncover. Dunnsmouth is in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by the one-two punch of mountains and seemingly endless swamp. The residents are similar to the stereotypical backwoods inbred rednecks, but obviously not all is what it seems here.
You'll find no maps or the like in Scenic Dunnsmouth. After all, the DM has to randomly generate the town, meaning he or she will have to make their own maps and layouts based on the way the generation occurs. To make the town you'll need a deck of playing cards and fourteen dice. To be specific you'll need 10 d6s, a d4, a d8 and two d12s, each of which has to be a different colour (the text suggest red and black, but they don't have to be. You just need to be able to tell them apart). You'll need a sheet of paper, with the size of the paper determining the boundaries of the location and then you let your dice fly Make sure to roll them all on the center of the sheet and let them fall where they may. The text says nothing about what to do if a die rolls off the paper and/or surface area. I would assume re-rolling, but I suppose you could count that die as non-existent for determining your Scenic Dunnsmouth if you choose. Each die represents a different important location in the town and the number than lands right side up determines a specific factor about it. After you roll the dice, you take your deck of playing cards and draw a card for each d6 (and possible d12) location. What you draw determines yet another factor for the location. As you can see this whole process is extremely random, providing a DM with an adventure it can reuse numerous times, while wielding extremely different results and layouts – even for gamers that have already played through the adventure before! That's very cool. As I said earlier, the whole process of seeing what kind of town you've created is a lot of fun for the DM as you look up the results and see the town come to life before your eyes.
The actual content of Scenic Dunnsmouth ends up being mostly background text and rules for how to generate your town. There are some sample towns to look at too if you can't quite get the hang of what you are supposed to do here. After the town is generated, you look up the results for each die such as locations, buildings, layout and townsfolk and it is then up to the DM to tie everything together into a cohesive package. All this means that while Scenic Dunnsmouth is fun for any DM, it takes a somewhat experience and organized one to run this thing efficiently. Taking notes on what you have created is a VERY good idea.
So after you've created your town, what is left? Well, you need to create a solid hook to get your players to travel to Dunnsmouth. The text gives you some ideas, but you might have a few ideas of your own which would get the PCs in your troupe to travel to such a remote and inaccessible location. Once there they might discover a strange mystical artifact that warps time and space. They might also find a loathsome cult and/or a town full of mutants. There is even a strong chance a PC or two might join the cult willingly based on what happens in your playthrough. For players, it's a pretty standard but creepy adventure for low level characters. There's some hack and slash potential, but it's mostly Call of Cthulhu style detective work where the PCs discover what is so ominous about this location and what they can do, if anything, to stop it. The town and potential plot points are enough to keep your characters in Dunnsmouth for several play sessions, if not longer. Heck, getting to and from Dunnsmouth could be an adventure in and of themselves.
I really had a blast with Scenic Dunnsmouth. It's a great idea and while it's still definitely an adventure that is probably more fun or memorable of an experience for the DM than the players, everyone involved will still have a great time with this adventure – as long as they're not looking for a straight up dungeon crawl. This is a great adventure to bring fans of games like World of Darkness or Call of Cthulhu over to LoTFP or various D&D retroclones, showing that fantasy games can be just as much about role-playing as they are roll-playing. Scenic Dunnsmouth is one of the best thought out and designed adventures I've seen this year. I was thoroughly impressed by the level of background detail given to every little thing in the town. The adventure things of everything, from a wide array of townsfolk to encounter to even what happens if you don't use the deck of playing cards correctly. Personally I love some of the occurrences that happen when you leave the instructions and/or Jokers in as it's hilariously bizarre –even for this adventure. I can't recommend this adventure highly enough. Even if you don't normally pick up Lamentations of the Flame Princess products, Scenic Dunnsmouth is well worth the cover price just to see how well made the adventure is from cover to cover.
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Forgive Us is a collection of three adventures for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. There is one fully fleshed out adventure with a map in Forgive Us, while the other two are more like story threads than true adventures, since the DM will have to flesh them out fully in order to make them playable. All three adventures are really well done, though, and are pretty memorable affairs. Even if you don't normally play Lamentations of the Flame Princess, you still should consider picking this up, as the adventures are fully playable with many a Dungeons & Dragons retro clone, and your purchase even gives you a second PDF which gives conversion stats so that Dungeons & Dragons 3.0/3.5 and Pathfinder fans can take part in the experience. That's a really nice touch that allows Forgive Us to reach a much wider audience. Who knows, it might even help convert some of those Paizo and WotC holdouts to peer deeper into the madness that is LotFP. I should also point out that all three adventures take place in England during the year 1625. Of course, it is a fictional England, since there will be magic users, cursed artifacts and the like, but if you don't like using our reality as the basis of a role-playing game, you can always change the location to some generic fantasy world. It won't have the same effect mind you, but it will shut up the person who absolutely has to play an elf in every game you run. It's also worth mentioning that, while all three adventures take place in the same year and same general vicinity of the world, they are NOT connected. Each one is designed to stand-alone, but an enterprising DM could connect the three with a little bit of effort into a mini-campaign.
Our first adventure, Forgive Us, bears the same name as the collection, and it is the only adventure to be fully fleshed out. You get full stats, maps of locations and randomizing tables, and it takes up thirty-five of the fifty pages in this collection. The adventure is a definite tribute to The Thing (the John Carpenter movie) and players will no doubt figure that out around the climax of the adventure, when they encounter the horrible monstrosities waiting to convert or kill them. Forgive Us also works best with characters under 4th Level. This way, no one has access to Cure Disease. If characters have ready access to this spell, the adventure loses a lot of its tension and terror since the entire experience revolves around a disease transforming people into hideous thingies. Make sure your players can suffer from the potential affliction that awaits them – otherwise, this can easily turn into a run of the mill dungeon crawl, and Forgive Us is too cool of an adventure to be relegated to such a fate.
In Forgive Us, the PCs will be tasked with one of several reasons to enter a full city block of Norwich that appears to have gone both silent and empty. As players root around the area, they will discover creepy mutants, a hideous disease and the failed machinations of a guild and the horror that it has caused. There's not a lot of combat until the very end of this piece, with Forgive Us really relying on the DM's ability to describe what the players see and creating an atmosphere of foreboding doom. The end result is an adventure that will feel more like a Call of Cthulhu piece, where characters are playing detectives more than monster slayers. Well, at least until the climax, when the adventure feels more like Alien. In the end, the PCs will have some tough calls to make, and the potential for a full TPK is high… although it might be by the player's own hands rather than the monsters if the adventure goes "right." All in all, a truly great experience from the core plotline to the wonderful art littering this piece.
The second adventure in this collection is In Heaven, Everything is Fine. The author states it's a bit of a Silent Hill meets The Colour From Out of Space mash-up. I definitely see the later, but not the former. It's hard to describe this adventure without massive spoilers, and it really is something best left experienced rather than read about. Suffice it to say, the adventure's concept is an exceptional one, but as it is more a story thread or adventure seed, a good DM needs to really flesh this out before presenting it to players. In the hands of a good DM, it will be a very memorable adventure, but in the hands of a bad one, it will come off lame or just annoy players.
Characters of ANY level can experience In Heaven, Everything is Fine and still be challenged. There's a spooky ghost, a tower that can be modified to whatever players (or player characters) want it to be, a bit of sleuthing to be had and a climax that revolves around a morale puzzle which could cause some temporary in-fighting with the party. Of course, most of all, the adventure really shakes up what the players consider to be reality. At best, you'll have created a spooky little adventure that can go multiple sessions, but at worst, more sensitive players that treat RPGs as something "to win" may get pretty pissed off at the DM by the time everything is done.
Our final adventure in this collection is Death and Taxes. It's meant to be a straight forward one session experience, and works great as a first adventure for a new party or even new players. A close friend of the PCs has died, his daughter has disappeared and a group of tax collectors are accusing the late man of theft. Players have to figure out how all these things tie together while also stopping the servants of the Conqueror Worm. It's a short but fun piece, and if you have people who have new done a tabletop RPG but have shown interest, Death and Taxes might be a good choice to help them get their feet wet with.
Overall, I really enjoyed the Forgive Us collection. You get three very interesting adventures and some fun cartoony yet horrific artwork. This collection is definitely worth the current sticker price attached to it, and it serves as a great introduction to the mood and themes LotFP likes to present to its audience.
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Happy Invisible Illness Week! This year it's from September 12-18. Congratulations to all of you who have survived yet another year without strangling a doctor or going insane from too much unsolicited "advice on how to get better" from your friends.
30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know
1. The illness I live with is:
Dysautonomia. (Which caused [or is just related to?] IC, Neurogenic Bladder, PCS, Endometriosis, UC, and Pernicious Anemia.)
2. I was diagnosed with it in the year:
3. But I had symptoms since:
About half a year before I was diagnosed.
4. The biggest adjustment I've had to make is:
Everything. Literally NOTHING is the same in my life except the basics, like I can still breathe. And I'm still hilarious, obviously.
5. Most people assume:
That when I say "I don't feel well" or "I'm sick," that I'm talking about something like a cold or allergies. Ugh or swine flu.
6. The hardest part about mornings are:
The mornings are actually the worst for me. My heart rate elevates A LOT while I'm asleep, no matter how many beta blockers I take before bed. So whenever I wake up, my sheets are soaked with sweat, I'm burning up, sometimes my limbs are numb, and I hurt. It just sucks to wake up from sleep. Because when you sleep, you don't really hurt. So when you wake up it's like, "GOOD MORNING BEAUTIFUL WOR...aw crap."
7. My favorite medical TV show is:
I don't watch many of those. Sometimes I watch Mystery Diagnosis because it's nice to know that other people have relatively unknown disorders that suck, too.
8. A gadget I couldn't live without is:
Is my pill case a gadget? It keeps me sane. I'm always so disappointed when the week is over and I have to refill it.
9. The hardest part about nights are:
Getting to sleep with my heart bouncing around and the pain all over. AND MY CAT WON'T SHUT UP.
10. Each day I take __ pills & vitamins
: 18ish? I really don't feel like counting right now. And a monthly shot.
11. Regarding alternative treatments I:
would try it if it worked. If acupuncture was covered by BC/BS, I would try it for the IC. (It actually probably will be covered by insurance in the future. That's how successful they're finding it to be.)
12. If I had to choose between an invisible illness or visible I would choose:
What kind of question is that? I'm sure visible illnesses suck, too. It's not like we're rivals or something. Auburn vs Bama = invisible illnesses vs visible illnesses.
13. Regarding working and career:
I'm extremely worried about if I'll be able to hold down a job. I'm worried if I'll be able to finish school. Unless something changes drastically in the next few semesters, I don't understand how I'm going to student teach. I'm struggling to even just go to school full time. School is hard, y'all! Who knew?
14. People would be surprised to know:
that when you say things like, "I'm so bummed! I have to take ONE PILL A DAY FOR A WHOLE MONTH until this goes away!!! Do you even know how annoying that is?!" I want nothing more than to punch you in the face and go get drunk. Neither of which I can do. Because normally you're my friends and I love you. Just...quit being a baby. Step in my shoes for AN HOUR. It's okay to have problems. Just don't pretend like your pink eye or whatever is anything near what I go through. I'm so tired of people thinking Dysautonomia is the same as, like, a paper cut.
15. The hardest thing to accept about my new reality has been:
the realization that I'll probably never be able to have kids. I was ADORABLE as a child. Told jokes like a champ. To deprive the world of tons of little Rachels running around? Tragic.
16. Something I never thought I could do with my illness that I did was:
fall in love.
17. The commercials about my illness:
Ha! Those don't exist.
18. Something I really miss doing since I was diagnosed is:
Being stupid. Like, I miss running around making stupid videos and being energetic. I miss not hurting.
19. It was really hard to have to give up:
All the things normal 18-21 year olds are doing.
20. A new hobby I have taken up since my diagnosis is:
I don't have one? I tried to knit for awhile but it hurt my hands.
21. If I could have one day of feeling normal again I would:
I wouldn't do A THING. I would just sit still and enjoy not hurting.
22. My illness has taught me:
To trust yourself. If a doctor tells you that you're just dehydrated but you KNOW that that's not the real issue, don't give in.
23. Want to know a secret? One thing people say that gets under my skin is:
When people get mad at me for talking about this. Really? You talk about football 24/7. Why? Because it's what consumes your life. WELL GUESS WHAT? THIS is what consumes my life. And it's a little more substantial than football, if I do say so myself. So get over it. We all have our issues. I can't help that yours is being an idiot. (Disclaimer: this is aimed at a few specific people. It's okay to love football.)
24. But I love it when people:
ask me questions about it and genuinely want to know.
25. My favorite motto, scripture, quote that gets me through tough times is:
I have a playlist of songs to get me through the worst time. The title of this blog (A Brand New Set of Wings) is a Joe Purdy song from that playlist.
26. When someone is diagnosed I'd like to tell them:
I'm having a rough year with it, so I'm probably not the most positive source of advice about this right now. I'd tell them...I hope you've had better luck than me! But seriously, I have no idea. I'd give them a list of doctors.
27. Something that has surprised me about living with an illness is:
The extent to which most of my friends don't care. One time I was trying to explain to one friend why I couldn't go out to dinner and he said, "You're just complaining to complain." Really? Really? Well, you're just being a jerk to be a jerk.
Another thing that surprised me is just how many people are so much worse off than me. It's unbelievable that so many people feel worse than I do and have such worse things than I do. And have less chance of a good life than I do. It baffles me. And some of them are even better at handling life than I am! So proud of all of them, even if I've never met them.
28. The nicest thing someone did for me when I wasn't feeling well was:
That time when I was in the hospital and Evelyn, Amanda, Laura, and Lauren came to visit me and talked about sneaking me out to ride the tram. And we made creatures out of the latex gloves. I think it was Evelyn who made Lt. Dan from Forrest Gump. That really meant a lot. Not the Lt. Dan part. But just...coming to spend time with me. And not caring that I was unshowered and gross.
29. I'm involved with
Invisible Illness Week
Awareness? Lawwwd, I don't know. Seems like a good thing to do.
30. The fact that you read this list makes me feel:
Grateful. You should let me know if you read this because it'd mean a lot. Big ups to you.
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By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
MEXICO CITY Mexico is poised to become Latin Americas economic star in the coming decade. The governments recent reform of the energy sector will contribute directly to economic performance by reducing the cost of manufacturing. In the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the resulting increase in manufacturing competitiveness promises to boost Mexicos growth substantially.
November 4, 2014
"Strengthening International Cooperation on Nuclear Materials Security"
Policy Memo
By Nickolas Roth, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
The Stanley Foundation convened a group of experts and policymakers from the United States and abroad to address these issues October 1517, 2014, at its 55th annual Strategy for Peace Conference. The group discussed overcoming challenges to nuclear security cooperation faced by the United States, Russia, and China, and next steps in ensuring that countries put in place effective and sustainable nuclear security measures with strong security cultures. This policy memo offers highlights of the discussion and recommendations of roundtable participants.
"State Authority in the Balance: The Israeli State and the Messianic Settler Movement"
Journal Article, International Studies Review
By Barak Mendelsohn, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Why do states allow and even encourage extremist nonstate actors to intervene in an international conflict in violation of domestic and international law, as well as state interests? Why do states fail subsequently to rein in these actors as the counterproductive consequences of their actions become apparent? This article explores one case of such puzzling state behavior, Israel's relationship with the messianic settler movement. The movement is challenging the state, and its actions regarding the territories Israel captured in 1967 have complicated efforts to resolve the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.
November 2, 2014
Senior Adviser on the Iran Nuclear Negotiations, Jake Sullivan, discusses American foreign policy priorities
Event Summary
By Alice Han
Former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department and current Senior Adviser on the Iran Nuclear Negotiations, Jake Sullivan, delivered an address entitled "Headlines and Trendlines - the Obama Administration's Foreign Policy" and led a discussion with the Future of Diplomacy Faculty Director, R. Nicholas Burns, experts, students, and fellows on October 30. He examined President Obama's current foreign policy strategy and priorities as well as expectations for the remaining two years of the Obama presidency.
November 1, 2014
Religious and Ethnic Hatred Seen as Biggest Threat
In the News
Nuclear weapons. AIDS. Environmental destruction. American researchers say what you fear depends a lot on where you live. But this year, researchers found that people everywhere believe religious and ethnic hatred is increasingly becoming the worlds most serious threat.


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@Ballroompirate said:After taking a nap for a few hours and coming back to the lounge to see all this teen drama Sounds like the usual shit from the Lounge clique.
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Playing Halo 1-3 at 1080p 60FPS is making me moist. I'm practically drowning.
Good riddance.
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What a pale imitation.
Like an absoute idiot, I bought Bayonetta 2 despite not liking the original. And yup, I still fucking hate it. u_uOff to GameStop it goes.
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We just got home from 7 beautiful days in the Caribbean . The weather was gorgeous, the ship was beautiful. We had an aft balcony room and would choose that again. The embarkation process in port canaveral was ridiculous! No fault of carnival, the terminal was jam packed with people, 3 large ships were doing the same thing at the same time, and they could not control the traffic!
The best parts of our cruise were the company we went with, the aft pool, because the center pool was very loud and massively crowded. The steak house was some of the best food we have ever eaten, and I highly recommend it! The. Food in the dining room was terrible! 2 nights it was inedible! I was so disappointed! However, our server, Jose, was great!
Our room was great, the comedians were hilarious, but something I want to say was something that I had read in other reviews. In the main dining room, people came to dinner, in shorts, tshirts, and bedroom shoes!!! The dress code is not More enforced, so no wonder the food was bad! Pool chairs were saved all day for people that never showed up! They really need to work on this!
And then the thing that that really was the topper, carnival added 15 " bogus" charges to my Amex card, holding it for 72 hours, making sure my sign and sail purchases were cleared!!!
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It looks like 57 Federal Street, which was on the Providence Preservation Society's 2014 Ten Most Endangered Properties list is coming down today.
It looks like 57 Federal Street, which was on the Providence Preservation Society's 2014 Ten Most Endangered Properties list is coming down today.
Join Mayor Angel Taveras and the City of Providence on Sunday, August 17 for a car-free event that will open up Broadway for walking, skating, running, cycling and exercise. Free and open to the public! Featuring Zumba, bike activities, street vendors and more!
The event will take place on Broadway from Dean St. to Courtland St.
Local partners include the City of Providence's Healthy Communities Office and Office of Sustainability, Walgreens, Zipcar, and the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission.
For more information visit ProvidenceRI.com.
Providence will have 3 cyclovía events this year, the first takes place this Sunday on Broad Street in South Providence. Details from the City:
Cyclovía is a car-free event that opens the street for people of all ages to walk, skate, run, bicycle, exercise, and socialize. The event is sponsored by Mayor Taveras in collaboration with the City's Healthy Communities Office and the Providence Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission.
"Cyclovía provides Providence residents with a safe and fun environment that promotes cycling, walking and community interaction – all elements of a healthy, balanced lifestyle," said Mayor Angel Taveras. "Residents from across the city will have the opportunity to enjoy their neighborhoods and to experience the great things that Providence has to offer."
Providence held its first-ever Cyclovía in September 2012 on Broad Street. In 2013, the City of Providence expanded Cyclovías to Valley Street in Olneyville and Hope Street on the East Side.
|Providence Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission Meeting
May 21, 2014, 4:30 PM
444 Westminster Street, First Floor
In 2013 the state, in cooperation with the city, installed on Atwells 14 sidewalk "bumpouts," 7 neon green crosswalk signs that are supposed to be more vivid than the standard highway orange, and other signs; upgraded some pedestrian-crossing signals; and restriped to create a 3-foot buffer zone on both sides of the avenue.
Nothing has been done to improve pedestrian safety at the intersection of Atwells and Dean, which is basically an extention of the Route 6/10 highway off-ramp.
Scheduled this year are the installation of additional traffic signal improvements, including 12 unusual pedestrian crossing signals; the painting of "25 mph," the speed limit, and "PED XING" on the pavement; and the painting of 11 additional crosswalks.
The pedestrian crossing signal, called a "rectangular rapid flashing beacon," would be unique in Rhode Island. It is a pedestrian-activated LED array attached to a pedestrian crossing sign that irregularly flashes an amber or white light that Urso said is impossible for a motorist to ignore.
Now if we can just stop people getting stabbed to death and drunks driving up on the sidewalks, it'll be a nice place.
Yesterday, demolition began on the 1871 Alexander F. Adie House on Atwells Avenue, an historic building lining the streets of one of Providence's most vibrant neighborhoods. There are supposed to be plans for a hotel in its place. As a community we need to remain vigilant to ensure that this site does not turn into another 'temporary' surface lot.
This is just the latest example of a repeated pattern – City Hall continues to turn a blind eye to the destruction of important historic buildings, and this disregard cannot continue. Too often, historic buildings are demolished or intentionally neglected until demolition becomes necessary and justified.
This isn't just about preserving our history. It's about strengthening our economy. Moving our economy forward doesn't require bulldozing our history – it requires utilizing it. We should already have learned the lesson that historic preservation is economic development. Our significant and largely intact historic building stock is a critical part of what makes Providence a cultural center with a thriving tourism sector. Further, the upkeep, preservation and creative adaptive reuse of these buildings have a real multiplier effect throughout the local economy.
City Hall has a responsibility to step in to protect our history and to recognize its vital role in our economic well-being. But this responsibility, just like so many historic buildings throughout our city, has been neglected. As Mayor, I will make historic preservation an integral part of our city's economic development strategy.
Brett Smiley
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Could be the first "What Jeer" of 2014. ArtInRuins says the owner is building a hotel on the site, I'll believe it when I see it.
We're running a little late this year but we're finally ready to run down the What Cheers and What Jeers of 2013.
In 2013 we got another plan to redevelop the moribund South Street Power Station. While numerous plans for the building, which at one point was known as the Dynamo House, have come and gone, this latest plan engenders optimism as Brown University is involved now.
In January the New York Times and then The Brown Daily Herald reported on rumors of the university becoming involved in the project. Then in June Brown announced it's plans for the building in a letter to the campus community.
Those plans include a home for the long talked about URI/RIC Nursing School, office space for Brown, and some sort of retail component in the former power station building. Brown also has a developer engaged in building a student apartment building in the neighboring parking lot along Point Street and the City is involved in plans for a parking structure across Point Street from that.
The latest news on the project comes from the ProJo just before Christmas with reports that the PRA is considering condemning the building so the project can move forward.
While this could all be looked at as another in a long line of proposals for the building, Brown's involvement makes this proposal seem more promising. 2014 will show us if this project actually moves forward.
Photos taken yesterday; the Broadway set around 10am, everything else after 3pm.
Thanks to GoProvidence.com (The Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau) for sharing some great holiday photos in our Flickr Group. Be sure to visit GoProvidence's special New Year's Eve Event Page.
To accommodate holiday shoppers and support local businesses during the busy holiday sales season, Mayor Taveras announced today that there will be two hours of free parking in designated commercial districts throughout Providence. Shoppers will be offered two hours of free parking from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. beginning Friday, November 29, 2013 through Wednesday, January 1, 2014 in the following commercial districts:
The holiday parking program is designed to make it easier for shoppers to patronize local businesses. The two-hour parking limit will be strictly enforced by parking enforcement officers. Cars parked illegally in prohibited areas, including crosswalks and tow zones, will be ticketed during this period.
Providence is overflowing with events this weekend.
Traffic is expected to be very heavy throughout the weekend, especially on Saturday for WaterFire. RIPTA will have several service deviations to accomodate events and will be running on a Holiday Schedule on Monday. Check the RIPTA website for details.
It has been nearly three years since City Councilman Terry Hassett was struck and severely injured by a hit and run driver on Atwells Avenue; one in a long line of pedestrian injuries and fatalities on the Avenue. Now, we are finally seeing some action on building pedestrian safety interventions.
After the Councilman was struck, we listed some recommended safety interventions including curb extensions such as those being installed now.
Hopefully we'll continue to see more of this type of infrastructure installed in the city to promote pedestrian safety.
A selection of photos readers have recently shared in our Flickr Group:
Federal Hill and West Side friends and neighbors rallied on Sunday morning in support of Cluck!, an urban farm supply store that is trying to open at the site of a former gas station on Broadway.
The business was approved by Zoning to open but was challenged in court on a technicality and lost, forcing owner Drake Patten to begin the Zoning process from scratch. Read Drake's commentary on what has happened.
Mayor Taveras joined Omni Group CEO William L. DiStefano, Jr. and others this morning to announce that company's purchase and plans to redevelop the C.J. Fox Complex on Federal Hill.
The Omni Group's plan for the CJ Fox Complex. Going 2 be a great addition 2 Federal Hill! twitter.com/Angel_Taveras/…
— Angel Taveras (@Angel_Taveras) April 11, 2013
From the Mayor's Office:
Mayor Taveras and The Omni Group Announce $1.6 Million Purchase of C.J. Fox Complex in Providence's Historic Federal Hill
Anticipated $5 million renovation will transform vacant factory into upscale office space.
Mayor Angel Taveras joined The Omni Group President and CEO William L. DiStefano, Jr., and Dominic Shelzi, executive vice president of The Omni Group, Economic Development Director James S. Bennett and other city officials today to announce the developer's $1.615 million purchase of the C.J. Fox Complex, at Two Fox Place in Providence.
The Omni Group will soon begin a $5 million renovation of the vacant manufacturing complex to transform it into upscale office space.
The C.J. Fox Complex includes 70,000 square feet in four buildings and accompanying parking lots, located on 2.17 acres of land in historic Federal Hill. The Complex was formerly owned by the C.J. Fox Company, which manufactured tags and boxes for the fashion jewelry industry.
"The Omni Group's redevelopment of the C.J. Fox Complex shows confidence in our capital city and a recognition of the incredible opportunities that exist here," said Mayor Taveras. "We look forward to The Omni Group's work to transform the Complex into a vibrant new center of commerce in Providence."
The Omni Group has restored a number of properties in the Federal Hill neighborhood, including nearly six acres of the West Exchange Center, with nine office buildings and several parking lots. The developer also owns several residential properties in the area. Last year, The Omni Group adopted Garibaldi Park on Atwells Avenue and improved it with landscaping as well as a bandstand area.
"We originally purchased West Exchange Center because we felt that this part of Federal Hill had a great deal of potential," said William L. DiStefano, Jr., president and CEO of The Omni Group. "It is within walking distance to Downtown Providence and Atwells Avenue, there is an abundance of parking, and there is easy access to all major highways. The project has had continued success year after year, and that, along with our optimistic view of the City's future, is why we have decided to expand once again."
"When developers and site selectors travel through Providence and see the transformation of these properties, it will send a strong message that we mean business here in Providence and that there is great potential for growth and economic success in Rhode Island's capital city," said Mayor Taveras.
Of course you may recall that the Omni Group has proposed an office building with two levels of parking at 50 Cedar Street as well as a two-level parking structure along two blocks of Cedar Street. Neither of those projects have broke ground yet.
Still catching up on some photos that were shared in our Flickr Group before the blizzard:
A selection of photos readers have recently shared in our Flickr Group: