History TabletopGame / LamentationsOfTheFlamePrincess

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: A lurking monster in ''No Dignity in Death: The Three Brides'' is known as a Tyhmä Paska[[labelnote:*]]"stupid shit"[[/labelnote]] among the [[spoiler: dwarfs hiding in the mountains]].

* BeneathTheEarth: ''Veins of the Earth'' is all about this.

* KillerGameMaster: Though a few of the adventure preface texts outright tell the Referee not to feel bad about it.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The most likely outcome of the modules [[spoiler:Death Frost Doom]] and [[spoiler: Monolith Beyond Space and Time]], and at least two of the possible endings of [[spoiler: The God that Crawls]]. For that matter, just casting the ''Summon'' spell too many times can result in some serious trouble. And it's a 1st level spell.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Used to astoundingly good effect in ''Hammers of the God''. Additionally, the core rule book states that the Dwarfs are a DyingRace.

* ReligionOfEvil: The cult in ''Death Frost Doom''. Although it has long been defunct, it ''did'' get around. A stonemason has spent the better part of his life creating gravestones for all the cult's victims.
* RenaissanceMan: The titular character of the mini-module ''The Magnificent Joop van Ooms''.
* SanityMeter: Averted, as the game does not feature a sanity-loss mechanic. This does not prevent characters from going permanently insane, and many situations are explicitly said to lead to madness for the characters.

* SealedEvilInACan: The plot for several modules. [[spoiler: One also has quite a lot of sealed GOOD in a can. You still don't want to let it out.]] Almost every [=LotFP=] module contains at least one horror the players can inadvertently release on the world, sometimes several.
* ShoutOut: ''People of Pembrooktonshire'' is full of these.

* TheSixStats: Played straight as an arrow, but switched into alphabetical order.
* TotalPartyKill: The expected outcome of many modules. Notably [[spoiler:Death Frost Doom]]
* TreacherousQuestGiver: Startlingly, averted in most of the material produced so far. Only [[spoiler:The God that Crawls]] comes close, and the party responsible feels terrible about it.
* TurnUndead: A spell rather than an ability. Contributes to the NintendoHard above, at least when TheUndead are about.

* BurnTheOrphanage: An entire adventure revolves around getting an NPC ''{{Paladin}}'' to do this. [[spoiler: It's probably justified, and ''definitely'' a good idea. [[IncrediblyLamePun Just not a Good one]].]]
* CampbellCountry: Pembrooktonshire can be considered an example if ''No Dignity in Death'' and ''People of Pembrooktonshire'' are anything to go by.

* KnightTemplar: The Knights of Science are very much this, and messing with one in ''No Dignity in Death: The Three Brides'' may get the player characters ArrestedForHeroism.

* AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing: Some of the encounters in ''No Salvation for Witches'' are former normal people that the resident EldiritchAbomination has accidentally mutilated with its magic and then ineptly tried to put back together.

%%* EldritchAbomination: Many adventures published feature them. One example would be the [[spoiler: creature under the farm and corn fields]] in ''Tales of the Scarecrow''. Creatures brought forth with the Summon spell are this more or less.%%ZCE. Describe why these things are examples.

* CharacterAlignment: Invoked; the game uses the old stripped-down Law/Neutrality/Chaos system. Less about how you act and more about whether supernatural entities are pulling your strings, and if so, which ones.

Think ''D&D'' characters unceremoniously dropped into a Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith-written SolomonKane story, as sung by Music/CannibalCorpse.

A TabletopRPG created by James Edward Raggi IV. Based on ''Basic Dungeons and Dragons'', Lamentations of the Flame Princess is one of the darker, more disturbing products to come out of the Old School Renaissance of tabletop role playing games. There's no Default Setting in the game; it's designed to play Metal-influenced late Medieval "Weird Fiction".

* ActionGirl: The Flame Princess, The Bruiser in the three-woman "mascot" party.
* AnyoneCanDie: The aforementioned mascot has been killed at least twice in official art.
* BlackAndWhiteMagic: The spell lists are much more segregated than in most D&D derivatives. White/Lawful magic is mostly buffs, healing and anti-magic. Black/Chaotic is all about blowing things up and summoning {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to read your mail.

* EldritchAbomination: Many adventures published feature them. One example would be the [[spoiler: creature under the farm and corn fields]] in ''Tales of the Scarecrow''. Creatures brought forth with the Summon spell are this more or less.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies
-->''There are 2,127 bodies buried on the surface in the clearing in front of the cabin. There are 1,762 bodies in the priest crypts, 1,814 bodies in the warrior crypts, 2,533 bodies in the commoner crypts, and 3,925 bodies in the child crypts. Every single one will animate [[spoiler:if the plant creature stops making its noise.]]''

* FolkHorror: See above
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In the module ''Fuck For Satan'', if the players perform the invocation of The Twinkling Star the star [[spoiler:makes it known that it hates the Referee of the game, whom it sees as a "cosmic tyrant" tormenting the player characters for fun]].
* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: ''The God That Crawls'' has [[spoiler:a magic axle that can turn a normal chariot into a "Chariot of Unreality" - a flaming fireball that moves at incredible speed. If players use it for more than five rounds, they run the risk of their vehicle (and its passengers) breaking free from the conceptual realm and disintegrating. If this happens, the DM is to tell the players their characters are dead, and then collect their character sheets. The DM will then place each sheet in an envelope marked "PLEASE READ ME" along with their contact information and a note offering a reward, and then place each envelope in a public location. If someone contacts the DM, they're supposed to offer a reward equal to the price of a fast food meal (paid by the player); if the character sheet does actually make it back, the character returns to play ([[BribingYourWayToVictory with an XP bonus if the reward was in fact paid]])]].

--> The dErO did not write this and they cannot see you reading it.
--> Tell us what this machine is. WE SAW YOU LOOKING AT THE MACHINE. There are no dErO, only fellow troper.

* VancianMagic: This game derives its magic system from Basic D&D.

* TurnUndead: A spell rather than an ability. Contributes to the NintendoHard above, at least when {{Undead}} are about

* MagicAmpersand: Averted, although there ''is'' a subtitle ("Weird Fantasy Role-playing").

* CharlieAndTheChocolateParody: The adventure module "Blood in the Chocolate" has a band of adventurers infiltrating the Wonka-esque chocolate factory of a ruthless noblewoman, risking all sorts of bizarre transformations and curses to steal her secret recipe.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In the module ''F█ck For Satan'', if the players perform the invocation of The Twinkling Star the star [[spoiler:makes it known that it hates the Referee of the game, whom it sees as a "cosmic tyrant" tormenting the player characters for fun]].

* AFeteWorseThanDeath: ''No Dignity in Death'' features a joyful celebration... where six young couples engage into violent sporting games until one of the grooms is killed and his bride is to be sacrified to the mountain spirits.

* VancianMagic: And how. It's derived from Basic D&D, after all.

* OurElvesAreBetter: They are TheFairFolk kind of elf, and in ''Veins of the Earth'', they Hate you. Not hate, ''Hate''.

* SeriesMascot: The titular Flame Princess, and to a lesser extent her companions -- a blonde Cleric and a brunette Magic-User. The Princess herself features on the boxed set cover (which, having {{Naga}} nipples, can't be posted here). Internal art and module covers track her progress from scared little girl defending her baby sister with her dead father's sword, through to a scarred badass DyingAlone in a sewer.
** In more recent images [[UnexplainedRecovery She Got Better]]. Or rather didn't. She somehow got rescued but [[ScarsAreForever the leg and fingers are gone forever]].

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In the module ''F█ck For Satan'', if the players perform the invocation of The Twinkling Star the star [[spoiler]]makes it known that it hates the Referee of the game, whom it sees as a "cosmic tyrant" tormenting the player characters for fun[[/spoiler]].

* OurElvesAreBetter: They are TheFairFolk kind of elf.