Lamentations of the Flame Princess is a tabletop role-playing game born out of the mechanics of old school fantasy gaming and the love of underground heavy metal, horror literature and film, and in fact all things strange and macabre. From inspirations as diverse as Lovecraft and Troma, Argento and Barker, the NWOBHM and the Stockholm death metal scene, Vance and Morrison, LotFP's cadre of writers and artists deliver mind-bending and merciless content for your game table. Rules-wise, LotFP belongs to the "Old School Renaissance" family of games that uses the Open Game License to recreate game rules of the late 70s/early 80s, with LotFP's particular twisting of those rules flattening out the power level a bit and emphasizing a more horrific and go-for-the-throat attitude. A PDF version of the full rules without any of the game's artwork is available for you to use for your own purposes here: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/115059/LotFP-Rules--Magic-Free-Version (The full-version PDF includes all of the art, while the physical version is a beautiful high-quality artifact in its own right.) Being part of the Old School Renaissance also means that every LotFP adventure and supplement is readily compatible with over 100 other RPGs, and their support material is readily compatible with LotFP.
