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So, Lamentations of the Flame Princess has offered up an adventure for Free RPG Day entitled Better than Any Man.
I'll start out with a quote from Author's Notes:
Welcome to LotFP’s Free RPG Day adventure! It isn’t what it is supposed to be.
We were told “Include quickstarter rules!” We were advised to create a short introductory/teaser adventure. We were warned to make it suitable for all audiences.
We didn’t do that. You know why?
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That is the amount of f#@#s we give about what we’re supposed to do.
What we did do is create an expansive, epic adventure bigger than any we’ve made up to this point. We made it layered and complicated and figured that as a tabletop role-player, you’re an intelligent, creative adult who is capable of working things out. We didn’t avoid “controversial” content because bowdlerizing our content would be dishonest, lame as hell, not to mention it would misrepresent the rest of the LotFP product line. Basically, we wanted to make this the best and most awesome thing we can possible make with no boundaries. This is role-playing. You can do anything! And so can we.
Because that’s what we give a f#~@ about. And for us, Free RPG Day is all about finding the sorts of people who love the same things we do. So here’s a free adventure. If you appreciate it, welcome aboard. If you don’t, well, sucks to be you.
So yeah. This isn't just the average 5-10 page adventure with some brief quick-start rules shoved into the front that most Free RPG Day adventures are. This is 180 pages of old-school awesomeness. The PDF is one of the more advanced I've ever seen...it's extensively hyperlinked, and utilizes layers to make it display beautifully on the screen, yet automatically print as a printer-friendly document. Tables in the document have a button that you can click to randomly select one of the entries (useful since some of them use the rare d30). There are thumbnail maps in the adventure text where they would be useful, and these hyperlink to the collection of full-page maps in the appendix...which hyperlinks back to the descriptions of the areas shown in the map. This is what all RPG publishers who put out PDFs should aspire to.
The adventure is offered in a Pay-What-You-Want format from DriveThruRPG and RPGNow. You can download it for free, and then (if you want) come back and pay whatever amount you think it deserves. Give it a look, if you are into old-school games.
I picked this up at Free RPG Day and was blown-away by the story. Reading through it, it sounds like a lot of fun (big sandbox adventure set in Europe during the 30 Years' War). I'm trying to slot running this in with my current RPG group as a mini-campaign this summer because its that good.