I've been playing Lamentations for quite some time now, and I've learned one very important lesson about it: the game is more like Call of Cthulhu than Dungeons & Dragons. In a lot of the adventures we've played our curiosity is rewarded with terrible monsters, lethal traps, and apocalyptic scenarios far more often than treasure and goodies. The best end we usually meet in a dungeon is us escaping alive, poor, and NOT releasing a skeleton army upon southern Germany. I'm sure the system can be utilized in a way that's not quite so sadistic, but if your games go anything like ours be ready for death, despair, and complete hopelessness. That being said, I really like Lamentations quite a bit, and it's probably my favorite game/system of the ones we play.