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 Today at 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 Today at 09:49:27 AM

Quote from: ForgottenF on Today at 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 Today at 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 Today at 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.