OSR Commentary On The Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum vol 1 Species of the Hollow Earth By Andrew Marrington For The Lamentations of the Flame Princess Rpg

  Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum vol 1 Species of the Hollow Earth By Andrew Marrington is one of those campaign setting books that deserves more time in the light. Years ago we did a review on and then nothing. 

The campaign's review is something that I'm going to stick by; "What the 'volume of Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum' does is provide the Dungeon Master & his players with a richly detailed setting book that sets up the traditional Mentzer Dungeons & Dragons races into a social wedding cake of civilizations, cultures, etc. that all hit the high notes of mythology & pop culture. This is based around the take of the author/designer Andrew Marrington who does an excellent job for taking a home campaign series of notes into a fully fleshed out setting book. The lay out is exceptional & the artwork very nicely done." What makes The Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum vol 1 Species of the Hollow Earth By Andrew Marrington exceptional is the attention to details; ' These empires don't simply include the usual Dwarven, Elven, & Halflings. Instead we have Formorians & Neanderthals whose might is both black magick itself & very subtle within this inner Earth. There a consistency of alternative PC classes & solid work here for the players to digest.'

And yesterday I was looking into possibly using 'The Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum vol 1 ' as buffer with Rafael Chandler's 'World of the Lost'. There's so much crossover potential here because of the Hollow Earth aspect. 

Crossing these two fantastic LoFP resources could potentially give the DM tons of options to set adventures within an LoFP Hollow Earth with competing non human empires with the LoFP player's PC's trying to exploit the situation. You know this isn't going to go well at all. 

Between getting in dutch with the dinosaurs, the dwarven nation, and more it's only a matter of time before the inner world locks in on events happening in Europe. And yes we're looking England Upturn'd here. Because of the English Civil War's events the Hollow World and it's armies might just have an easy time to take the upper world quite easily. Between plague, violence, and more it doesn't take a great deal strikes against Europe to take the entire chess board. And what a campaign that would make. 

Review & Commentary On 'The Colony of Death' By Mark Hess For The Lamentations of the Flame Princess rpg & Other OSR Retroclone Rpg Systems

" This book contains 4 adventures set in the English Colony of Maryland in 1650. It also provides setting information, a hex map, random encounter tables, and a bestiary of creatures from Maryland folklore."

"The Colony of Maryland was founded on the idea that Catholics and Protestants could live together in peace, to build a new life in a New World."

" But things dark and sinister lurk in these ancient woods. Things the natives leave undisturbed. Things alien and evil. And being exposed unknowingly by eager, greedy settlers."

" All are damned in the Colony of Death."

 The Colony of Death By Mark Hess For the Lamentations of the Flame Princess rpg  is a complete OSR module unto itself; " This book contains 4 adventures set in the English Colony of Maryland in 1650. It also provides setting information, a hex map, random encounter tables, and a bestiary of creatures from Maryland folklore." Clocking in at sixty two pages of Maryland historical mythical background there's been a ton of research that Mark Hess has put into  'The Colony of Death'. There's over fifty seven pages of beginning campaign history, background, details on the Maryland colony, and more. This adventure campaign has a very deep background with the wilderness of Maryland  very dangerous in everyway from the NPC's, the animals, disease, and more. 
There are four adventures that a intimately tied with the Weird Colonial America of 1650's Maryland  that is featured in 'The Colony of Death' By Mark Hess. I don't wanna go into deep detail to spoilt the adventures.  Needless to say there's quite a bit here within 'The Colony of Death' By Mark Hess to allow a DM to establish a Lamentations of the Flame Princess campaign within a Colonial America. Hess sets the tone & the history of his supplement allowing 'The Colony of Death' to play out well within a Lamentations rpg venue. 
1650s Maryland is a perfect adventure point & is a fine addition to any Lamentation's DM's tool box. There's more then enough contained within 'The Colony of Death' By Mark Hess For The Lamentations of the Flame Princess rpg to keep a campaign going for many years. 

'The Colony of Death' By Mark Hess For The Lamentations of the Flame Princess rpg & Other OSR Retroclone Rpg Systems Is Available Here 

A Quick Review & Commentary On the 'volume of Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum' by Andrew Marrington from Grimm Aramil Publishing For The Lamentations of the Flame Princess rpg & Your OSR & Old School Games

 "In 1692, Edmond Halley, better known as the astronomer for whom Halley’s Comet is named, published a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, an august academic periodical still active today, in which he advanced the hypothesis that the world was hollow and contained within it another world. This hypothesis was based on empirical observation of anomalous compass readings which suggested that there were four poles, although Halley conceded that insufficient observations had been made to verify the theory, merely that it was a possible explanation. Imperfect though his observations may have been, Halley stumbled upon a fundamental truth...

The world is hollow. The outer world exists not upon a solid orb but upon a crust, engineered untold millennia ago. On the other side of that crust there is another world, an inner world, with its own realms and races, bathed in the red light of an arcane inner sun. The inner world mirrors the outer one fairly closely with respect to its mundane geography but its inhabitants are quite extraordinarily different..."

This is going to be our  fifth or six time trying to get a review of the 'volume of Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum' by Andrew Marrington from Grimm Aramil Publishing.  

So what is the 'volume of Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum' ? Its an alternative player's hand book & PC guidelines for a inner or Hollow Earth campaign for the Lamentations of the Flame Princess rpg . 

What the 'volume of Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum' does is provide the Dungeon Master & his players with a richly detailed setting book that sets up the traditional Mentzer Dungeons & Dragons races into a social wedding cake of civilizations, cultures, etc. that all hit the high notes of mythology & pop culture. This is based around the take of the author/designer Andrew Marrington  who does an excellent job for taking a home campaign series of notes into a fully fleshed out setting book. The lay out is exceptional & the artwork very nicely done. 

 The 'volume of Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum' presents a world setting on the edge of discovery in the black powder era. This a universe where the whims of mythology & legend are fact. There are spell from Altantis waiting for PC wizards to get themselves into trouble, Formorians & Nenderthals are Race as class options, & the Dwarves are here waiting to get themselves into the fray. 

This isn't simply a player's book its a campaign waiting to happen & it presents an excellent opportunity for the players & the DM to take a vastly different approach to the usual Lamentations of the Flame Princess nega dungeon approach.  Here are vast empires & solid traditional militaries waiting for the DM to use from an inner Earth. The sense here is at once epic & well thoughtout especially with regards to  the 'volume of Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum'  the material as presented for PC generation. 

These empires don't simply include the usual Dwarven, Elven, & Halflings. Instead we have Formorians & Neanderthals whose might is both black magick itself & very subtle within this inner Earth. There a consistency of alternative PC classes & solid work here for the players to digest. 

The material here in  the 'volume of Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum'  is well thought out & very well done. I highly recommend it as a viable option for the Lamentations of the Flame Princess rpg system. There will be a second part of our review of  the 'volume of Lexicon Geographicum Arcanum' coming up!