Review – Lamentations of the Gingerbread Princess

This adventure is dark, weird, bizarre and quite wonderful, very old school and wacky.  If you do not mind letting something a little outre loose in your campaign world, then give Lamentations of the Gingerbread Princess a try, I do not think you will be disappointed.

Lamentations of the Gingerbread Princess is a short module for the Lamentations of the Flame Princess weird fantasy RPG but compatible with most OSR style games (or similar games, I ran it with Pathfinder).

The basic plot is straight forward, recover and rescue a group of displaced halflings for a reward of course (this is old school, people are not expected to do thing because they are nice).  They must be tracked into the Dark Wood, which comes with a fantastic set of random encounters, to find out where the halflings have gone.

Where they have gone is a literal land of milk and honey with gingerbread houses and everyone is happy or else.  Perfect poodles, animated teddy bears and impish cupids enforce mandatory happiness on the surviving halflings.  To free them, an ivory tower must be stormed, a fairy queen defeated and, possibly, dark deals must be made.

While the structure of the adventure seems humorous, it is a very dark humor and the stakes can be very high.  One of the best modules I have ever read and that it also plays well, just makes it perfect.

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For our actual play through the adventure (using Pathfinder) see here.