I never heard of this until just now but holy cow it is awesome and I want it…! Thanks for all you do, friend.
@sauronrodriguez4583
4 жыл бұрын
Love the review! However, I heard you mention the "punk-rock" theme of the artwork when I think it's pretty obvious the entire book was inspired by Black Metal (specifically the Norwegian bands) . The setting is a northern wasteland full of profane left-hand path types("frostbitten" is a common term sometimes used to comedically describe black metal like "grimdark" is for Warhammer, and like you said it resembles Norway.) The design of the Amazons is based around the motif of corspepaint and a lot of their poses seem to evoke famous album covers like "Translvanian Hunger". Hell, a monster is named "Necrobutcher" which is the stage name of the bassist for Mayhem, the most (in)famous black metal band ever. Just thought this might be an interesting bit of trivia for your viewers who don't listen to metal and would like to see where the author most likely got their inspiration from.
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Sauron! If I could afford to hire fact-checkers, you'd get the job. Mayhem, Must look it up.
@sauronrodriguez4583
4 жыл бұрын
@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 Thanks! I wouldn't really call it fact checking lol you didn't make any factual errors I just thought it would be worth mentioning it since I didn't see many people talking about it the comments. Be careful with looking up images of Mayhem. A great band but they have a reputation as one of the most infamous bands in history for a reason (i.e. never look for the "Dawn of the Blackhearts" bootleg cover because it features a photo of their former singers suicide which is pretty sickening to look at). But yeah Norwegian Black metal in general is easy inspiration for RPG material. Varg Vikernes of the one man black metal band Burzum has published his own role playing game called MYFAROG which I heard is pretty good and might be worth taking a look at. Another warning though is Varg went to prison for arson and murder (he killed the guitarist of Mayhem) and has notoriously right-wing views.
@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898
4 жыл бұрын
One of the prime black metal bands is punk-rock all the way: Darkthrone. They never stopped being black metal (I mean, once they abandoned death metal) but they are totally punk-rock!
@liamcage7208
Жыл бұрын
I need this product, its so dark and imaginative. I hope its still available.
@theDMLair
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, I LOVE the typography and layout. Really slick looking. I also like the concise NPC descriptions. Just enough to give the DM something to work with, but not so much to make reference at the table while running the game difficult. Great review, professor!👊
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I hope it wasn't too long. I'm trying to get the next one between 10-12 minutes.
@theDMLair
5 жыл бұрын
It didn't feel long to me. If your analytics shows that audience retention remains good through to the end, then I wouldn't worry about the length so much.
@MrRourk
5 жыл бұрын
Have you seen Hot Springs Island?
@13thBear
5 жыл бұрын
Omg, your description of this book sounds like it would give me nightmares forever!
@dixieflatline9772
5 жыл бұрын
I've never heard of a setting this cool before in my life. This is what I strive for in my D&D games. I gotta try this supplement and the game, I doubt I could return to D&D after this. My homebrew setting is like the movie Profession of Arms but in Icewind Dale instead of Milan.
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
"Hubris" is great too. Shortly after this video aired, Zak Smith was accused of some sordid behavior with his former girlfriend(s). It's awkward because he wrote great products. If you want it get it soon because it will never be reprinted. None of his work will be.
@TheNiall666
4 жыл бұрын
This reminds me very much of 'Mork Borg' in its metal theme and design style. I also feel it could work well in conjunction with 'Do Not Let Us Die In The Dark Night Of This Cold Winter'.
@cademartori13
5 жыл бұрын
Lovely review, professor Dungeon Master!
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Matheus. I thought it was pretty thorough.
@munderpool
5 жыл бұрын
I got the pdf after watching the vid and I agree wholeheartedly, the imagination that went into this stuff is astounding. It's hard to put down. One publication I'd like somebody to put together one day is a book solely comprised of descriptions for locations. In other words, a chapter on entering a forest seasonally, rooms, creatures, etc. Sometimes there's so much going on at the table that being eloquent at every turn is an ambitious unlikelihood! I've seen Questing Beast and Ivanmike1968 talking about this system the last few years and it is intriguing. I'm partial to the fairytale aspect of fantasy RPGs, so Lamentations and its offspring may suit me - hopefully the crew as well!
@jameskeegan3108
5 жыл бұрын
Nice! You should get paid for the reviews you are doing for us. Going out to buy both Frostbitten & Mutilated.and Lamentations of the Flame Princess. THANK YOU !
@ForeverYoungKickboxer
4 жыл бұрын
How about your review after purchase, man? I'd like to hear what you think now after having it.
@robcharette1915
3 жыл бұрын
Wow this book looks great. Definitely going to pick it up
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you found the review helpful.
@westermatt
4 жыл бұрын
I am super stoked to buy this book! I am currently running my players through an actic tundra and have been struggling with adventure design. And the art in that book looks gorgeous and creepy! Kind of reminds me of the 'Art of Metal Gear' book I had years ago.
@throeawae2130
3 жыл бұрын
How did your game go/ how is it going?
@VhaidraSaga
3 жыл бұрын
Very helpful review. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
@Shanachie-69
2 жыл бұрын
The aesthetic reminds me a bit of the old White Wolf Storyteller series that I ran and played a lot in the '90s. One night I ran them through a series of tests based on the Seven Deadly Sins. The "Wrath" segment required my intervention to prevent a TPK.
@DougVehovec
5 жыл бұрын
great review of an excellent product. time to check out what other excellent stuff this channel has to offer too!
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
Glad you found us and there is TONS of back content.
@terrybeal2252
4 жыл бұрын
Looks awesome! Thanks for the review Professor. 😎
@Lemon_McBoss
5 жыл бұрын
Hope you're feeling better, Professor! Keep rolling 20 health checks!
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
I'm improving. Thanks.
@twilightgardenspresentatio6384
5 жыл бұрын
Lemon McBoss I’d give you a +1 if I could bro
@altersilentium
5 жыл бұрын
I saw the title for the video and my first thought was "Crap, what did he do to his players now!"
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
Lol. Wait until the first week of November when I show you what a goblin prison looks like.
@ronniejdio9411
4 жыл бұрын
Scandinavian Black Metal + D&D
@def4a114
5 жыл бұрын
Love your content, keep up the good work
@radelc
5 жыл бұрын
Ever seen Zak’s I Hit it With My Axe - web series? Pretty raw and fantastic eye into the authors personality and DMing. He creates great stuff. Good vid.
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. He's brilliant.
@zombiehaiku7527
3 жыл бұрын
Am now waiting for my copy to arrive.
@jacobvanveit3437
5 жыл бұрын
Very cool. Love the grotesque monsters, jutting fear into players minds. It seems this can be rendered into a D&D setting (I find it difficult to get people to play non D&D games). Curious if you think this book could be a good addition to a DM’s dark repertoire? That critical chart got my eye brow up. I would like to mention that I play Core only. A heavy emphasis on character customization in regards to skills and a magic system that takes into account heavy drawbacks on failed rolls. I’m looking into a custom mechanic that deals with critical injury charts, like warhammer has but more emphasis on players rolling fortitude saves for each hit taken. This book seems to have a solid foot hold on that.
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
Yes. The critical hit chart is worth the price alone. It's easy to convert to 5e. Lamentations of the Flame Princess is just Basic D&D circa 1980.
@jacobvanveit3437
5 жыл бұрын
DUNGEON CRAFT really appreciate the reply. If you don’t mind me asking an off topic question,regarding your style of dming where you hard cap players hitpoints. Here goes; the warhammer rpg style of combat seems way more visceral and exciting when it comes to a good ol fight. It’s obviously because taking any kind of damage after you loose those wound points starts the rolls on the critical tables and arms, legs and heads start to fly. Been racking my head on this and curious your thoughts on an idea I been mulling around. Here goes, Cut players hit points in half after they roll for each level and they can’t go below 1 hp, per level gained. Their fortitude score will be their damage resistance after they reach 0 hps. Every damage over the players fortitude score will be another notch worse on the critical table, like we see with the warhammer critical table when a player is down to 0 wound points. Heck, can even use their system for where the hit lands and use their descriptions. Fighters could technically last much longer than their hp’s would normally allow but being at 0hp’s is obviously a huge risk to stay at, much like having 0 wounds. It could be that any damage taken after reaching 0hps incites critical effect but the fortitude save for the player could drop the % roll for how serious by 10% per fortitude that the player still has remaining from the hit. (Player currently has 0 hps takes 9 more damage from a hit but player has 12 fortitude. The player absorbed all 9 hps taken but must now roll on the critical chart at a -30% to the severity of the hit as seen in the warhammer critical chart, the DM rolls 42% but the -30% brings the severity to - 12% on the +1 chart (because the damage wasn’t over the players fortitude save). As per the chart, a 12% nets a value of 2 to a particular body part. Most 2’s are dropping a weapon, loosing an ear or keeling over from a groin hit. The biggest problem with this system is what is to be done for magical effects such as fire or ice damage? Do you allow a player a save vs the effect on the critical chart to resist the effect dc 10+damage done? How would I need to scale monster damage, if at all? And would I need to scale magic damage, as it is now very potent against creatures with half their hps? Would magical damage be WILL save based to resist critical charts once hps are below 0, like fortitude is for physical damage? I feel like this method would be an easier way for players and dms to scale the encounters without having to rework all the enemies damage dice, hps etc... toughness in warhammer is basically replaced with fortitude. Makes me also wonder if defensive maneuvers, like combat expertise should be applied to the players fortitude and not AC? Any insight as to how you have handled the low hp hero’s vs monsters and how it’s played through? Obviously TPK’s are more numerous and it brings a large element of gun shy to most encounters. I want to stay away from further adding to players paranoias, knowing death is around every corner... can bog down a session. Cheers! Much appreciation for your insights!
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
Ah. Warhammer and Toughness. So I played Warhammer for years. It was our go to fantasy RPG. However, I jettisoned the critical wounds because it was too complex: rolling damage, adding wounds, subtracting toughness. That's algebra territory. It slows the game to crawl. This is how I do it now: Low hp means lower monster damage. d10 damage is a big deal. If someone goes negative hp they roll a DC 11 save for shock or they die instantly. If they make it, they bleed out at 1hp per round until someone staunches the flow of blood. Then I have a critical wound table where they lose fingers, eyes, hands, etc. I may share it at some point--but I really just describe the critical wounds on the fly, using common sense. If a character goes to negative hp because of an acid arrow, I tell them "half your face got melted off. You now look like Gus Fring from Breaking Bad." Back to FBAM--those descriptions can be used like the old Warhammer tables, but you don't need a chart. It's faster and smoother, IMO.
@jacobvanveit3437
5 жыл бұрын
DUNGEON CRAFT cheers! Yeah, the whole bogging down of the game, combat is the mother of it! I completely agree that the charts get in the way. Keeping it to the DM’s description and keeping the story, combat and roleplaying going without pause is what’s most important. Gonna table the critical chart until I start a new campaign. “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” sorta thing.
@gregorycallahan9073
4 жыл бұрын
I thought the title was a soft reference to The Thing(1982) and had to click.
@tomdulski3729
5 жыл бұрын
That looks awesome of course with the current frequency that we play we wouldl never finish it.
@johncartwright3130
2 жыл бұрын
I too am now waiting for my copy to arive.
@beeezlebub
5 жыл бұрын
Sharing!
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
Thank, buddy. I really appreciate it.
@dane3038
3 жыл бұрын
Zak no longer receives any financial benefit from the sale of LoTFP products. Enjoy.
@josephskiles
2 жыл бұрын
Gygax would have loved these charts I imagine, if there was ever a man that had a fetish for random roll tables it was him
@saintmatthew956
5 жыл бұрын
Great review. How evocative does the art get? PG13? R?
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
PG 13
@mke3053
3 жыл бұрын
Awsome tables for roll20
@beeezlebub
5 жыл бұрын
Holy crap!!! This is a must own! Thank you for exposing me to it's gruesome romance!!!!
@beeezlebub
5 жыл бұрын
Just bought one! Thanks again
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah. I'd say it's worth the money. And I'm cheap.
@beeezlebub
5 жыл бұрын
eBay 23 bucks! And from what I saw I can't complain, being a penny pincher as well!
@yakuzajoe
5 жыл бұрын
Scantily-clad amazons in an arctic setting??
@jameskeegan3108
5 жыл бұрын
Fantasy role-playing, Tell yourself its only a game it's only a game :) !
@vns6620
4 жыл бұрын
Hi, could you clear up some confusion for me¿? For the classes presented in Frostbitten and Mutilated, how would the Saving Throws (Paralyze, Poison, Breath, Device, and Magic) translate over to something like 5e¿?
@northd6840
5 жыл бұрын
Love this video (actually all the vids are great) however what my attention was the description of the "troll cat". Absolutely hideous. I had come across something like this only once in Johan Egerkrans book "Vaesan", a beautifully illustrated tome of northern European folklore. In that book they are called "Moljk Hare" (Milk Hare) but no doubt they both derive from the same source material. Mr. Egerkrans also has two other books that are great sources of material for a campaign. Norse Gods and The Undead. They obviously have creatures that we are all familiar with but there are also some lesser known things "that go bump in the night". Either way, like I said previously beautifully illustrated. Love the vids!
@DUNGEONCRAFT1
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you; no doubt Zak S. has read it. He is brilliant, has an MFA from Yale, and reads widely. Thanks for the info!
@ivanvega1005
4 жыл бұрын
S***! This book is serious💗😬
@mowzrascal2350
3 жыл бұрын
Would probably be best to take this vid down professor. Was about to buy this when a review warned me of Zak. Very nearly dodged a bullet there. As a community we shouldn’t be supporting content creators like Zak, just my two cents.
@rafaeltaracena112
3 жыл бұрын
Do not speak for the whole community please. Many of us can separate the author from the work and it is a personal decision if you consume or not. The rest is just censorship.
@paulll47
2 жыл бұрын
I am of the idea that, anytime someone tells me what I should or I shouldn't like, I have to go and do the immediate opposite of it, got the book as soon as someone threw a fit a game I was in (she got kicked out of course) when I said that I enjoyed the game, one of the best book I have.
@HellcarDS
11 ай бұрын
You're NOT a whole community! So shut a f##k up, and go play with dolls. Zak - the best author and the most creative designer settings, contents and monsters for ttrpg. The others is a boring, hollow and awful, just meh.
@samchafin4623
3 жыл бұрын
Why do I think of Amazons as being from warm climates, and think it's out of place for them to be in a cold wilderness setting? That's a strange bit of cultural baggage this video has brought up for me. So, Prof. DM, how do your female players feel about the the sort of T&A art style of the book being reinforced in the rules, essentially encouraging female warrior characters to be scantily clad in a tundra?
@Lodane
3 жыл бұрын
scant clothing in the snow is nowhere near Zak's biggest problem with women
@samchafin4623
3 жыл бұрын
@@Lodane Sounds like a book I need not bother with, then.
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