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	===The Valley===		===The Valley===
	First off is the distance to the monolith itself - it's randomly determined every time you enter the valley, and can be as long as several astronomical units (for reference, one AU is equal to the distance from the center to the Earth to the center of the sun, which means the party won't even make it a fraction of the way before dying of old age).		First off is the distance to the monolith itself - it's randomly determined every time you enter the valley, and can be [[Wat\|as long as several astronomical units]] (for reference, one AU is equal to the distance from the center to the Earth to the center of the sun, which means the party won't even make it a fraction of the way before dying of old age).

	Then there are the other random effects that happen in the valley, some are at least somewhat interesting (everyone in the party must obey the commands of one random player, cast spells become self-aware) to the WTF (if the characters leave the valley they end up in an entirely different setting chosen at random from the DM's shelf (where they lost one point of a random stat each day), nothing is able to travel anywhere during the daytime so the party ends up running in place like in ''Through the Looking-Glass'').		Then there are the other random effects that happen in the valley, some are at least somewhat interesting (everyone in the party must obey the commands of one random player, cast spells become self-aware) to the WTF (if the characters leave the valley they end up in an entirely different setting chosen at random from the DM's shelf (where they lost one point of a random stat each day), nothing is able to travel anywhere during the daytime so the party ends up running in place like in ''Through the Looking-Glass'').

1d4chan>SpectralTime: /* The Valley */

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	*A colony of nudist pacifistic lotus-eaters who subsist off of a berry that makes them [[/d/\|so fertile that they give birth within half a day]] and the cooked meat of their own offspring, because it just wouldn't be Raggi without the [[Grimderp\|gratuitous cannibalism]], or suggested bestiality (as it makes a point to say they don't care about fucking other species, and that they have children from [[Beastmen\|unnatural pairings]]). Thankfully they don't defend themselves when the party inevitably kills them.		*A colony of nudist pacifistic lotus-eaters who subsist off of a berry that makes them [[/d/\|so fertile that they give birth within half a day]] and the cooked meat of their own offspring, because it just wouldn't be Raggi without the [[Grimderp\|gratuitous cannibalism]], or suggested bestiality (as it makes a point to say they don't care about fucking other species, and that they have children from [[Beastmen\|unnatural pairings]]). Thankfully they don't defend themselves when the party inevitably kills them.
	*A giant anglerfish monster that emerges out of a two-inch deep brook because fuck logic. According to Raggi there's a one-way spatial gate there that the fish uses to travel from one area to another (because Raggi doesn't even know what '''"ONE-WAY"''' means). It is extremely strong, can instantly kill the PC's if it grapples them (because that's something this fish can do), or if you ''touch'' it. In case you're curious, hitting it with a weapon means you touched it, and as soon as you've done that it can instantly kill you, no saving throws of any kind allowed. Because Raggi made this adventure, hitting it with a bladed weapon causes a lot of guts and worms to spew out, and if you fail your saving throw you'll accidentally swallow them, causing all manner of ''"fun"'' to occur. Due to space-time horseshit, any time the PCs encounter the brook again it'll reappear completely healed. On the off chance that they kill it again (despite the colossal amount of DM asshattery suggested to make this impossible, like forcing all finishing blows to automatically miss), the campaign immediately ends as everything dies and the DM is forbidden from running anything ever again. Seeing as how they thought to run this campaign at all, it's probably for the best in this case.		*A giant anglerfish monster that emerges out of a two-inch deep brook because fuck logic. According to Raggi there's a one-way spatial gate there that the fish uses to travel from one area to another (because Raggi doesn't even know what '''"ONE-WAY"''' means). It is extremely strong, can instantly kill the PC's if it grapples them (because that's something this fish can do), or if you ''touch'' it. In case you're curious, hitting it with a weapon means you touched it, and as soon as you've done that it can instantly kill you, no saving throws of any kind allowed. Because Raggi made this adventure, hitting it with a bladed weapon causes a lot of guts and worms to spew out, and if you fail your saving throw you'll accidentally swallow them, causing all manner of ''"fun"'' to occur. Due to space-time horseshit, any time the PCs encounter the brook again it'll reappear completely healed. On the off chance that they kill it again (despite the colossal amount of DM asshattery suggested to make this impossible, like forcing all finishing blows to automatically miss), the campaign immediately ends as everything dies and the DM is forbidden from running anything ever again. Seeing as how they thought to run this campaign at all, it's probably for the best in this case.
	::This is probably the best of the encounters if you somehow survive it, because accidentally eating the worms gives you a chance of surviving the "save or die" tests that Raggi loads nearly every one of his modules with. If you die to something like a dart trap for example, and you have enough hit points then you actually survive, all the worms inside of you die, and you're now immune to poison dart bullshit forever due to bad editing on Raggi's part. This also allows you to survive the many TPK's that are also in his modules, and would grant you invincibility vs odd things like a giant waking up underneath a mountain, or even dying of unnamed offscreen bullshit (see the section below on travelling to the future).

	===Outside The Monolith===		===Outside The Monolith===

1d4chan>Triacom: - That argument falls flat when you realize it's not scary. It also completely missed the point of cosmic horror by giving the players a lot of agency, especially when they're inside the monolith.

2019-12-11T22:36:26Z

- That argument falls flat when you realize it's not scary. It also completely missed the point of cosmic horror by giving the players a lot of agency, especially when they're inside the monolith.

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	'''The Monolith From Beyond Space and Time''' is a module for [[Lamentations of the Flame Princess]], written by James Edward Raggi IV. It is designated as being for characters from level 0 through ''infinity'', which should make you immediately suspicious.		'''The Monolith From Beyond Space and Time''' is a module for [[Lamentations of the Flame Princess]], written by James Edward Raggi IV. It is designated as being for characters from level 0 through ''infinity'', which should make you immediately suspicious.

	Raggi considers this a homage to [[H.P. Lovecraft]], which for reasons that will quickly become apparent is an insult to the other RPGs based on Lovecraft's work, although one could argue that it is in fact one of the truest homages to cosmic horror ever made in an RPG, as if you are playing this, the DM (and thus the game universe by extension) either does not care about you or wants you to suffer. ~~However, while it might be fun to read a Lovecraft story, [[TPK\|it's much less fun to be a ''character'' in one...]]~~		Raggi considers this a homage to [[H.P. Lovecraft]], which for reasons that will quickly become apparent is an insult to the other RPGs based on Lovecraft's work.

	==The Adventure==		==The Adventure==

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	'''The Monolith From Beyond Space and Time''' is a module for [[Lamentations of the Flame Princess]], written by James Edward Raggi IV. It is designated as being for characters from level 0 through ''infinity'', which should make you immediately suspicious.		'''The Monolith From Beyond Space and Time''' is a module for [[Lamentations of the Flame Princess]], written by James Edward Raggi IV. It is designated as being for characters from level 0 through ''infinity'', which should make you immediately suspicious.

	Raggi considers this a homage to [[H.P. Lovecraft]], which for reasons that will quickly become apparent is an insult to the other RPGs based on Lovecraft's work, although one could argue that it is in fact one of the truest homages to cosmic horror ever made in an RPG, as if you are playing this, the DM (and thus the game universe by extension) either does not care about you or wants you to suffer. However, while it might be fun to read a Lovecraft story, [[TPK\|it's much less fun to be a ''character''' in one...]]		Raggi considers this a homage to [[H.P. Lovecraft]], which for reasons that will quickly become apparent is an insult to the other RPGs based on Lovecraft's work, although one could argue that it is in fact one of the truest homages to cosmic horror ever made in an RPG, as if you are playing this, the DM (and thus the game universe by extension) either does not care about you or wants you to suffer. However, while it might be fun to read a Lovecraft story, [[TPK\|it's much less fun to be a ''character'' in one...]]

	==The Adventure==		==The Adventure==

31.185.237.135 at 22:16, 11 December 2019

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	'''The Monolith From Beyond Space and Time''' is a module for [[Lamentations of the Flame Princess]], written by James Edward Raggi IV. It is designated as being for characters from level 0 through ''infinity'', which should make you immediately suspicious.		'''The Monolith From Beyond Space and Time''' is a module for [[Lamentations of the Flame Princess]], written by James Edward Raggi IV. It is designated as being for characters from level 0 through ''infinity'', which should make you immediately suspicious.

	Raggi considers this a homage to [[H.P. Lovecraft]], which for reasons that will quickly become apparent is an insult to the other RPGs based on Lovecraft's work.		Raggi considers this a homage to [[H.P. Lovecraft]], which for reasons that will quickly become apparent is an insult to the other RPGs based on Lovecraft's work, although one could argue that it is in fact one of the truest homages to cosmic horror ever made in an RPG, as if you are playing this, the DM (and thus the game universe by extension) either does not care about you or wants you to suffer. However, while it might be fun to read a Lovecraft story, [[TPK\|it's much less fun to be a ''character''' in one...]]

	==The Adventure==		==The Adventure==

1d4chan>Newerfag: /* Inside the Monolith */

2019-11-14T18:01:00Z

Inside the Monolith

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	===Inside the Monolith===		===Inside the Monolith===
	The monolith's interior initially appears to be an endless corridor that is in fact an infinite maze... made up of a straight and endless corridor. The "maze" isn't actually a maze at all, it's basically just a fog, you can go wherever you want so long as you always walk in the direction you're looking, and that's it. (As an aside, if you can't see you're basically trapped. So you're screwed if your character is blinded somehow.) The corridor seems to always be ahead of the PCs regardless of their actual direction, which poses some very interesting navigation challenges. Especially since distance and time do not exist inside the monolith (this also means characters will never age, which for reasons described later is not a good thing), and the only way to get anywhere is to ''wish'' to be there, which makes as much sense as you'd think.		The monolith's interior initially appears to be an endless corridor that is in fact an infinite maze... made up of a straight and endless corridor. The "maze" isn't actually a maze at all, it's basically just a fog, you can go wherever you want so long as you always walk in the direction you're looking, and that's it. (As an aside, if you can't see you're basically trapped. So you're screwed if your character is blinded somehow, like if they blindfolded themselves to keep those aliens from possessing them.) The corridor seems to always be ahead of the PCs regardless of their actual direction, which poses some very interesting navigation challenges. Especially since distance and time do not exist inside the monolith (this also means characters will never age, which for reasons described later is not a good thing), and the only way to get anywhere is to ''wish'' to be there, which makes as much sense as you'd think.

	The only creatures inside are impossible to detect unless the PCs want to find something they can fight. Despite their freakish appearance they all do piss-poor damage and die in one hit from any weapon.		The only creatures inside are impossible to detect unless the PCs want to find something they can fight. Despite their freakish appearance they all do piss-poor damage and die in one hit from any weapon.

1d4chan>Eldy: /* How NOT to DM */

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How NOT to DM

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	<big>'''An Example of Travel Within the Monolith'''</big>		<big>'''An Example of Travel Within the Monolith'''</big>
	:'''Bob (playing Jake the Fighter:''' "So we both see this featureless tunnel?"		:'''Bob (playing Jake the Fighter):''' "So we both see this featureless tunnel?"
	:'''Referee (playing [[That Guy]] the DM):''' "Yes."		:'''Referee (playing [[That Guy]] the DM):''' "Yes."
	:'''Sarah (playing Veronica the Specialist):''' "I look at the wall to my left."		:'''Sarah (playing Veronica the Specialist):''' "I look at the wall to my left."

1d4chan>Eldy at 14:32, 6 September 2019

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	\|publisher = Self published		\|publisher = Self published
	\|system = Lamentations of the Flame Princess		\|system = Lamentations of the Flame Princess
	\|authors = James Edward Raggi IV / Kenneth Hite		\|authors = James Edward Raggi IV<br/>Kenneth Hite
	\|year = 2012		\|year = 2012
	}}		}}