Available as a PDF and softcover for years it is now out in hardcover for backers of the Advanced Labyrinth Lord Kickstarter.
The book looks fantastic, as to be expected.
The hardcover book is 60 pages worth of material and deals with running a Lovecraftian-inspired game of horror fantasy.
A few new races are introduced for a Race-as-Class style game with notes on other classes to use in an advanced game; Sea-Blooded, Subhuman, White Ape and White Ape Hybrid.
Next, are some new magical formulae and some new spells all based on various Lovecraft sources. Enough to sprinkle into various dammable texts for the players to find AND then really get into trouble with.
We come to the monsters and all the old favorites are here. Comparing them to other sources of similar monster will give you plenty of differences in stats, which is a good thing really. Players who are familiar with other books should not have knowledge their characters do not.
A small section on Eldritch Artifacts, a staple of many of Lovecraft's mythos stories.
And finally a section on Psionics which differs from other books/games.
We get some appendices on Eldritch tomes and an artifact generator. Appendix 3 covers the use of these psionic rules in Mutant Future. And Appendix 4 covers the stories and books used.
We end with the OGL section.
If I have one complaint there are no rules for sanity or madness. A fair staple of many Lovecraftian games.
The book is awfully fun and is full of great ideas. If you are a fan of Labyrinth Lord and Lovecraftian tales then I would most certainly grab this.
For me, this is has been the "missing" part of both my BlackStar game and War of the Witch Queens. I say "missing" but I have had the PDF forever.
This is actually a HUGE part of my BlackStar game. This plus Starships & Spacemen So I am going to talk a little about in the frame of reference of that game soon.
Possibly one of the best books put out by Goblinoid Games since the latter half of the OSR.
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