Случайные факты о Lamentations of the Flame Princess
К выходу интервью с Джеймсом Раджи решил привести в порядок свой ворох заметок по Принцессе, что я нагуглил в разное время (по крайней мере, иметь список в одном месте).
AC 12
Я наивно полагал, что базовый AC равен 12 (а не 10) из-за огнестрела, который игнорирует 5 пунктов AC. Но, кажется, это никак не влияло на дизайн:
Everyone except Fighters get a flat ‘+1’ to hit bonus, just for being a PC (see R&M p.7). If base AC is 12 then most folk need to roll 11+ on a d20, which makes the roll 50/50.
The combination of Fighters getting +2 to hit to start, 0-levelers getting no bonus, and other classes in between, just felt like it had a lot of impact with base Armor 12. Didn’t go any deeper than that.
Yes. One of the big ideas of setting things up this way is that non-Fighters still look at well-armored foes, even 0-level soldiers, as a threat (or very least a problem) in combat.
https://www.lotfp.com/RPG/discussion/topic/625/base-ac-question
Почему нет бонуса Силы к урону
One thing I never liked about strength affecting damage is that it raised the minimum possible damage. I’d be all for strength increasing damage potential by one, but in the sort of «if you have a +1 STR mod, a sword does d9 instead of d8 damage. A dagger does d5.» I wasn’t going to introduce that mess though.
Почему нет фаербола и других заклинаний
Mostly because Fireball, Lightning Bolt, etc; don’t fit the Weird Fantasy vibe of the game.
It was just a way to lower the amount of flashbang spells in the MU’s arsenal (note a lot of the damage-causing spells do less damage than they traditionally do), and removing Fireball and Lightning Bolt sends a message as well. I had given a bit of thought to eliminating all damage-causing MU spells but that would have been slightly nuts.
https://test.lotfp.com/RPG/discussion/topic/136/fireball/
О спасбросках монстров
Более расширенно о спасах для монстров (в рефери-буке речь шла только о спасах, как у Воинов).
Monster Attack Bonus = Hit Dice, and it saves as a Fighter if it is a «normal» creature, as a Dwarf if it is an unreal monster with no supernatural abilities, as a Halfling if it does.
https://lotfp.com/RPG/discussion/post/4330/#p4330
Appendix N
Ни в рулбуке, ни в рефери-буке нет упоминаний подобного аппендикса, но я наткнулся на него в сообщении на форуме, где Раджи публиковал требования к авторам приключений.
The «Appendix N» authors for LotFP right now (establishing atmosphere and tone, not stuff to rip off): Clive Barker, Robert W. Chambers, Nicholas Gurewitch’s The Perry Bible Fellowship, William Hope Hodgson, RE Howard’s Solomon Kane stories, Thomas Ligotti, HP Lovecraft, Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Ashton Smith (particularly the Averoigne stories). Jules Verne and HG Wells are good as well. «The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories» edited by the VanderMeers is a good and economical one-stop shop for getting the idea.
Also good inspiration are the films of Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Lucio Fulci, Dan O’Bannon, Christopher Smith, and Ti West, Hammer Films, plus things like Blood on Satan’s Claw, Cabin Boy, the Creepshow series, I Sell the Dead, The Mist, Witchfinder General, YellowBrickRoad, and others. Also listen to the music of Arcturus, Carnivore, Circulus, Comus, Deceased, Emperor, Mercyful Fate/King Diamond, Reverend Bizarre, and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum to get into the headspace.
(not in LotFP’s «Appendix N» right now: Howard’s Conan, Moorcock’s Eternal Champion stuff, Tolkien)
https://lotfp.com/RPG/discussion/topic/182/lotfp-looking-for-adventure-writers/
PS
Сравнение BX и LotFP от Джеффа Рейнтса: