When comparing The Pool vs Lamentations of the Flame Princess, the Slant community recommends Lamentations of the Flame Princess for most people. In the question“What are the best tabletop RPGs?” Lamentations of the Flame Princess is ranked 28th while The Pool is ranked 34th.
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Pros
Pro Rolls are made to resolve intent not actions
Instead of rolling to perform actions such as swinging a sword, rolling is used for resolving intent with descriptions of actions left to players and GM to describe.
Pro Characters don't ever become too powerful
Pro A different take on magic
Pro Streamlined
Simple, streamlined rules for old-school crawls (most of them organized alphabetically).
Cons
Con Monologue of Victory may stop any GMs plans
The Pool includes a system, called the Monologue of Victory, that allows a player to take over narration of the game in the event of a successful roll without the GM being able to interfere. As such using the system for complex plots may be difficult, because the player may remove an essential part of the story without knowing it.
Con No power gain
Characters don’t ever become too powerful.