Pre-orders are currently open (until Jan 28th) for the Free
RPG day module Vaginas are magic
lotfp.com/store/index.php?route=product ... uct_id=23448 page b/w A5-sized hardcover
Writing by James Edward Raggi IV
Art by Rosi Kämpe
Photography by Eliza Rask
Graphic Design by Jez Gordon
Props by Dean Clayton
Title Logo by Christopher Horst
Editing by Sesh Nefer Uy Phuy Ky
Read Carefully!
This is a pre-order/sponsorship for LotFP's 2017 Free
RPG Day book. Pre-order ends January 28 11:59am Finland time!
Economy Shipping is included in the price... however, because we're not charging separately for shipping the system won't ask for a shipping address. Please write the shipping address in the order comments if it is different than your billing address, and you will need to specifically contact me if this changes before the book ships. The system does not notify me automatically if you change your account information.
The Signed edition, available exclusively here, will have a bookmark ribbon, and will be signed by writer James Edward Raggi IV, artist Rosi Kämpe, and the cover model Riina Himanen.
This book will be mailed Economy Class the week of June 12, 2017. They very likely will not arrive to your door in time for Free
RPG Day. Not a lot I can do about that; there is no way to get an accurate prediction of how long deliveries take with Economy shipping, and books arriving before the day is a big no-no according to Free
RPG Day rules. Pay-What-You-Want PDFs will be made available July 1. This book will be available from participating game stores for Free
RPG Day. By buying this, you are helping subsidize free books for thousands of people around the world.
While we will have some extras to deal with lost or damaged copies, there won't be many, and they'll be disposed of locally after all sponsors get their copies.
Sponsors will be listed in the book. We will assume the name on the billing address of the order is what you want listed. If you want a different name, or if you don't want to be listed at all, leave a comment at the end of the order. Those ordering more than one copy will have their names highlighted, unless we are told not to do this. Of course, we hope hundreds of people will be on that one page so it's going to be pretty cramped. Because this is a pre-order and PDFs will not be immediately available, if you have the option of doing a bank transfer, please do that instead of using Paypal. That will save us over a euro per order.
What is Vaginas are Magic! ?
First the promo text:
FEMININE ANTI-COSMIC NIHILIST MAGIC OF DEATH
You have been lied to all your life. You've been told that magic is meant to be in the hands of old bearded men of kindly paternal disposition, protecting the status quo. You've been told about young men destined for greatness and learning to command power that is rightfully theirs. When women are shown to possess magical power, they are scantily clad Enchantresses, housewives duped by the devil, feeble old crones who hate the young, or precocious young girls eager to prove themselves to the boys.
Stories all constructed to comfort and pacify you. To give you heroes and role-models to rely on, to give you villains than you can sneer at and be confident of their defeat. They make you feel so safe.
But you are not safe.
Upon the solar winds ride the cosmic keys to our creation and times, received by women with but one desire: tear reality asunder. Now they have the means. They have always had the will. Existence is over.
Vaginas are Magic! is a book of blasphemous, dangerous magic featuring spells that only women characters can cast. It also includes a new magic system for use with Lamentations of the Flame Princess and all other traditional class-and-level tabletop role-playing games.
And then more information:
This is a book of 20 longform spells, a new magic system (a refinement of the one that appeared in the playtest document sent out to some customers last year), and a short essay about magic. Each spell has its description, a half dozen effects if the spell is improperly cast, and a full page illustration accompanying it. Yes, that's 20 pages of art.
Spells are each named after a metal song. Of the twenty spells, three have sexual content, and three of the twenty illustrations (one previewed on this page) could be considered explicit in that way. The title, cover, and promo text are the LotFP smartass fun promo sort of thing, but the jokes end when you open the book*. Straight up weird horror magic.
The book is done: All writing is complete. All art is complete. Editing is complete. Layout is 95% complete, we're still messing with stuff and dressing it up but we could go to press tomorrow if we had to.
* OK OK, it's a 48 page book, of course we make a couple bad jokes. We're all supposed to enjoy these things, the doing and the using, yes?