Gondor calls for aid

Lamentations of the Flame Princess, DnD-adjacent indie publisher extraordinaire, is in serious financial trouble at the moment. Below is what you -yes, you- can do about it.










Due to a confluence of unfortunate factors, most of them outside of James Raggi's control, LotFP finds itself in some serious debt, to the tune of several tens of thousand euro. Among these unfortunate circumstances are:

- A hike in Finnish postal service prices
- Canceled projects and canceled reprints due to fallout from the Zak S controversy, and
- The temporary closing of the US webstore (now reopened) among other pandemic-related distribution hurdles and canceled conventions.

All of these things made 2019 and the first half of 2020 a very bad stretch for LotFP sales, which in turn made it very difficult to repay the company's business loans.


In a gamble for the future of the company, Raggi has put out four new books:

- The Deck of Weird Things, a campaign supplement (limited edition)
- Fermentvm Nigrvm Dei Sepulti (Black yeast of god's grave), an adventure
- Big Puppet, another adventure
- Adventure Anthology Blood, a bible-sized adventure compendium comprising several out-of-print LotFP books (The Grinding Gear, Hammers of the God, Weird New World, No Dignity in Death: The Three Brides, and People of Pembrooktonshire) with all-new layout and 100% new art by Kelvin Green.

I bought all four last Monday on release day. Since the PDF versions become available as soon as the order is completed, I was able to peruse all four books, especially The Deck of Weird Things, which I incorporated into my weekly game last Tuesday.

Every one of these books has my ardent recommendation and I consider them money well spent. I will write up a proper review of Deck of Weird Things in the near future.

To get more details about the books, their pricing, and a more thorough account of the financial situation, I encourage you to go here and get it from the horse's mouth.

(There's also new T-shirts)


Some important considerations if you want to take the plunge and help an indie brother out:

- If you want to support the company financially, buying from the official webstores is much better than buying from Amazon or other venues.
- Fermentvm, Big Puppet and Blood are available on both the US and EU stores, but Deck and the fancy slipcase for the Blood, Fire and Death Adventure Anthologies are only available from the EU store. However, if you get Deck and use the promo code WEIRD (case-sensitive) at checkout, the shipping on the entire order is free. This is a great opportunity to get you some stuff from the EU store without having to pay those pesky Finnish post prices!
- Some books at the EU store are very low in stock (Broodmother Skyfortress, Isle of the Unknown) and some are limited editions (Midvinter) or will not be reprinted (Blood in the Chocolate, Vornheim, Frostbitten and Mutilated). That, coupled with the fact that the near future is not likely to see reprints of any book (since new product sells better and faster than reprints), makes this a very good time to feed your Lamentations collection.
- Log into the store and add your shipping address to your account to get the correct price displayed. By default, prices at the EU store include VAT, but if you are outside Europe the price will not include that tax.
- If Finland will not ship to your country at the moment because of Covid, there is a workaround. See the official LotFP Facebook group for help.


In short, if you want to see Lamentations of the Flame Princess continue to put out outstanding products, go buy some of these outstanding books right now!