History YMMV / LamentationsOfTheFlamePrincess

** That one major contributor (Zak Smith) is a known abuser, one (in)famous adventure featured lots of racism, sexual violence, and sexual assault (Blood in the Chocolate, so infamous that TabletopGame/{{Lancer}} refused to participate in the Ennie awards over it winning an award), and the creator's aforementioned violence towards women (one based on his ex) makes [=LofTP=] a divisive work, typical of arguments around the OSR: on one hand, the adventures are often mindbending subversions of typical RPG cliches, but on the other, the edginess and constant things that out right kill you in the aforementioned adventures drive away a lot of people.

** That one major contributor (Zak Smith) is a known abuser, one (in)famous adventure featured lots of racism, sexual violence, and sexual assault (Blood in the Chocolate, so infamous that TabletopGame/{{Lancer}} refused to participate in the Ennie awards over it winning an award), and the creator's aforementioned violence towards women (one based on his ex) makes [=LofTP=] a divisive work, typical of arguments around the OSR: on one hand, the adventures are often mindbending subversions of typical RPG cliches, but on the other, the edginess and constant things that out right kill you in the aforementioned adventures drive away lot of people.

** The game's bend towards violence and depravity is noted to be effective for horror, but the sheer ''depth'' of said depravity is often called into question as being truly necessary. There's also some debate about whether or not the depiction of violence against women is keeping within the game's dark tone and an aversion of MenAreTheExpendableGender, or if it carries some UnfortunateImplications of its own (especially considering the titular Flame Princess, who has lots of artwork of her being butchered or gravely wounded in some way, has been mentioned as being based off of the author's ''ex-girlfriend'').

%%* NightmareFuel: Much of the artwork that accompanies the Grindhouse Edition box set is High Octane Nightmare Fuel, especially one zombie's wandering hands.
%%** Or the "Birth" picture. Or the Medusa. One of those three gets everyone I've ever handed the book to put it down for a bit.
%%** The artwork in general, and those three pics in particular, was disturbing enough to catch the attention of Website/SomethingAwful, leading to quite the bit of controversy.

* OvershadowedByControversy: [[https://www.geeknative.com/74343/ennies-controversy-kiel-chenier-blood-in-the-chocolate-author-disowns-the-adventure/ In July 2020]], amidst all of the political upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement, the author of the ''Blood in the Chocolate'' adventure disowned it, labeling it as loaded with political and racial insensitivity that the author just didn't knew was so awful at the time of writing and even going so far as swearing the adventure would never see a reprint once the rights came back to them in 2021.

* RatedMForMoney: The game's creator admits that style isn't the only reason he chooses shocking art and subjects. This is also a factor in him re-printing ''Carcosa'', an already-controversial setting, owing to the various vile acts required to perform sorcerous rituals.

* RatedMForMoney: The game's creator admits that style isn't the only reason he chooses shocking art and subjects. He also re-printed one of the most controversial books in RPG history, Carcosa.

** The game's bend towards violence and depravity is noted to be effective for horror, but the sheer ''depth'' of said depravity is often called into question as being truly necessary. There's also some debate about whether or not the depiction of violence against women is keeping within the game's dark tone and an aversion of MenAreTheExpendableGender, or if it carries some UnfortunateImplications of it's own (especially considering the titular Flame Princess, who has lots of artwork of her being butchered or gravely wounded in some way, has been mentioned as being based off of the authors ''ex-girlfriend'').

* OvershadowedByControversy: [[https://www.geeknative.com/74343/ennies-controversy-kiel-chenier-blood-in-the-chocolate-author-disowns-the-adventure/ In July 2020]], amidst all of the political upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement, the author of the ''Blood in the Chocolate'' adventure disowned it, labeling it as loaded with political and racial insensitivity that the author just didn't knew was so awful at the time of writing and even going so far as swearing the adventure would never see a reprint once the rights came back to them in 2021. This is one of various events that called to attention a degree of racial tone-deafness in the tabletop roleplaying movement that affects even classics like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''' ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting.

* RatedMForMoney: The game's creator admits that style isn't the only reason he chooses shocking art and subjects. He also re-printed one of the most controversial books in RPG history, Carcosa.
* VanityProject: Much of the game's NintendoHard factor seems to come from a desire to punish players who don't take it as SeriousBusiness and/or a life's work.

* RatedMForMoney: The game's creator admits that style isn't the only reason he chooses shocking art and subjects. He also re-printed one of the most controversial books in RPG history, Carcosa.

* ContractualGenreBlindness: One of the main flaws of the published modules.
** As an example, in ''Death Frost Doom'', the players are required to spend a day climbing a mountain, ignore the warnings of the old man, and then pass through a massive graveyard which can drive the players mad just by staying there in order to get to the abandoned Cult stronghold.
* NightmareFuel: Much of the artwork that accompanies the Grindhouse Edition box set is High Octane Nightmare Fuel, especially one zombie's wandering hands.
** Or the "Birth" picture. Or the Medusa. One of those three gets everyone I've ever handed the book to put it down for a bit.
** The artwork in general, and those three pics in particular, was disturbing enough to catch the attention of Website/SomethingAwful, leading to quite the bit of controversy.
* RatedMForMoney: The game's creator admits that style isn't the only reason he chooses shocking art and subjects. See NightmareFuel, above; he also re-printed one of the most controversial books in RPG history, Carcosa.

* ContractualGenreBlindess: One of the main flaws of the published modules.

** The artwork in general, and those three pics in particular, was disturbing enough to catch the attention of SomethingAwful, leading to quite the bit of controversy.

* DevelopmentHell: ''Insect Shrine of Goblin Hill'' languished unpublished for roughly half a decade before being published as a part of ''Better Than Any Man''.

** The artwork in general, particularly the three pics in particular, was disturbing enough to catch the attention of SomethingAwful.

* RatedMForMoney: The game's creator admits that style isn't the only reason he chooses shocking art and subjects.. See Nightmare Fuel, above; he also re-printed one of the most controversial books in RPG history, Carcosa.

* Nightmare Fuel: Much of the artwork that accompanies the Grindhouse Edition box set is High Octane Nightmare Fuel, especially one zombie's wandering hands.

* RatedMForMoney: The game's creator admits that style isn't the only reason he chooses shocking art and subjects.. See Nightmare Fuel, above; he also re-printed one of the most controversial books in RPG history, Caracosa.