That's a bold strategy Lamentations of the Flame Princess, lets see how it plays out.  Will Arch or RPG Pundit try this tactic for views, wait and see.

"Shirts off; I haven't showered in three days" is not an auspicious start to a video.

Yeah its a bit different than what I'd expect from Lamentations, did laugh my arse off thinking of Arch and RPG Pundit doing a shirts off bitch fest.  BUT they'd have to be in wife beaters first and then take of the shirts for best effect.

If I want to see a fat hairy guy shirtless, I'll just look down when checking this forum!   Doing things for shock value is nothing new in RPG promotion.  RPG Pundit has a pussy in practically every one of his videos after all! 

It's a very typical move for LOTFP, right down to the shirtless video. He was doing those a couple of years ago before he started doing all his videos outside in the snow.

I find a lot of what James Raggi has to say interesting, and I respect his determination to stick to his guns, but his insistence on making RPG products as dissident art means that those products are rarely of any use to me.

Quote from: ForgottenF on January 22, 2025, 09:31:28 AMIt's a very typical move for LOTFP, right down to the shirtless video. He was doing those a couple of years ago before he started doing all his videos outside in the snow.

I find a lot of what James Raggi has to say interesting, and I respect his determination to stick to his guns, but his insistence on making RPG products as dissident art means that those products are rarely of any use to me.

I purchased much of his earlier stuff, but I haven't found anything from the last several years pertinent to my table.  I think it's a deliberate choice by him to focus on a niche market.

Quote from: wmarshal on January 22, 2025, 09:49:27 AM

Quote from: ForgottenF on January 22, 2025, 09:31:28 AMIt's a very typical move for LOTFP, right down to the shirtless video. He was doing those a couple of years ago before he started doing all his videos outside in the snow.

I find a lot of what James Raggi has to say interesting, and I respect his determination to stick to his guns, but his insistence on making RPG products as dissident art means that those products are rarely of any use to me.

I purchased much of his earlier stuff, but I haven't found anything from the last several years pertinent to my table.  I think it's a deliberate choice by him to focus on a niche market.

I mean when I saw that, I didn't think of his games, I thought of my inner city friend who grew up trash, taking of his shirt and trying to fight an entire fraternity and me being called to pick him up, bad times, bad times.

Quote from: ForgottenF on January 22, 2025, 09:31:28 AMIt's a very typical move for LOTFP, right down to the shirtless video. He was doing those a couple of years ago before he started doing all his videos outside in the snow.

He has some nude videos in the snow as well...

Generally, I think it was a period in which he wasn't well and this is a nod to that, and myabe to the fact that all of this still affects him (honestly, not sure I would've fared much better, he actually stayed in the business)

Quote from: wmarshal on January 22, 2025, 09:49:27 AMed much of his earlier stuff, but I haven't found anything from the last several years pertinent to my table.  I think it's a deliberate choice by him to focus on a niche market.

check out Disastrum if you're into colonial US as a setting, I think it's great.  and Strict time records must be kept. also Yellow book of Brechcewold is so tame it could've been for OSE.

I agree about some of the stuff he publishes. I didn't get it but he's adamant he'll publish a wide range of themes and types of adventures and I respect him a lot for it even if many are really not to my tastes, especially with the current climate in this hobby.

Creators on the left are learning their own people will eat them if they're not radical enough, just look at what happened to Yochai Gal recently. He at least refuses to bend the knee.

Quote from: wmarshal on January 22, 2025, 09:49:27 AM

Quote from: ForgottenF on January 22, 2025, 09:31:28 AMIt's a very typical move for LOTFP, right down to the shirtless video. He was doing those a couple of years ago before he started doing all his videos outside in the snow.

I find a lot of what James Raggi has to say interesting, and I respect his determination to stick to his guns, but his insistence on making RPG products as dissident art means that those products are rarely of any use to me.

I purchased much of his earlier stuff, but I haven't found anything from the last several years pertinent to my table.  I think it's a deliberate choice by him to focus on a niche market.

I'm interested to know what sort of niche audience I'm going for these days that is different than when I was publishing things like Death Love Doom and Fuck for Satan over a decade ago.

The selling point for me with LotFP products is they are the only adventure material I have found I can use in multiple genres; sci-fi for sure. Sci-fi horror mystery is easily done with most of these adventures, the situation is so fucked up in any of the adventures that the "answer" to the problem is unique. Death Frost Doom would make for a great western adventure. You pull it out when your party gets stuck in a mountain pass and need to find shelter...., the human-centric orientation of all the material makes it tool-boxy for my other games. Black Box was perfect death trap for my superhero game, Big Puppet perfect for the galactic horror which lurks behind everything in my sci-fi game. Heck, most of the adventures could be slipped into a game of Gangbusters, moldvay's version. I have one adventure which has a laundry-list of human npcs. I scan the list when I want to start thinking up various npcs I am going to need. Terror in the Streets is just a date change away from your modern Giallo-noir thriller, The Punchline has a decent gang of psychopaths which can be used in any era, No Rest for the Wicked has no supernatural elements and is good example of explosive situations being created out of a normal day of "activities". The only product which fell flat for me was Frostbitten and Mutilated. I get a more visceral reaction to the map of the world of Xoth for northern barbarian shit then this book. Just can't get excited over it. Otherwise it is utility, utility, utility. There is a good chance a LotFP adventure will get used multiple times for multiple reasons, so I always take a look to see what they have. The size is cool. Popping a couple digest-sized hardbacks in my backpack and I am ready to go and fuck some shit up at your table tonight. Hmmm, quality. The books look nice.

Give the shirtless Raggi a pair of sunglasses and he can totally pull off being the offbrand diet version of Razorfist. Deliverers of profanity-wrapped truth boogers.

I confess I tend to find his videos quite amusing because I tend to agree with him. Not on everything, mind you; I am not an atheist, and I think that if we're ever going to finish winning the culture war we need to aim at being disarmingly winsome pariahs rather than offensively amusing sit-com-dweller pariahs.

But I digress. The video was generally good.

Please ignore my ignorant ass.