The Monolith From Beyond Space and Time
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The Monolith Beyond Space and Time | ||
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Module published by Self published |
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Rule System | Lamentations of the Flame Princess | |
Authors | James Edward Raggi IV / Kenneth Hite | |
First Publication | 2012 |
The Monolith 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 Adventure
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Somewhere in the world, a freakish alien monolith of unexplained origin appears in an equally freakish valley. The PCs, being the PCs, are encouraged to investigate. And in typical Raggi fashion, even the trip to the monolith is a clusterfuck. 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).
Then there are the other random effects that 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, nothing is able to travel anywhere during the daytime so the party ends up running in place like in Through the Looking-Glass).
And then there are the random encounters, which include these gems (keep in mind that the party hasn't even reached the monolith yet):