Castles & Crusades Classic Monsters

Troll Lord

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We have just released Classic Monsters in print form. It began shipping today, April 25, 2012. Kickstarter orders, and pre-orders are rolling out the door.

For everyone else the book is ready for immediate shipping!



Monsters abound. They litter the halls of our collective games like so much debris; wandering monsters, laired beasts, plane walkers, horrid thoughts that linger upon the edge of our imagination. Monsters abound, but as any gamer of any stripe knows, you can never have too many creatures for these a the grist of the mill that is our game.

The early days of gaming saw some of the most classic and amazing creatures. Weird beasties derived from the minds of people influenced by a genre of fiction that was in its prime, when fantasy truly meant the fantastic. Castles & Crusades has touched upon them from time to time, but by and large they have remained in the background. Until Now.

Kim Hartsfield, long-time veteran of classic gaming, brings many of these monsters back to life. Anyone who games with Kim knows he runs a hard-knock game of classic dimensions and epic adventures. Kim revisits the old monster books, MM II and the Fiend Folio, plying their pages for all those classic monsters that mystified and horrified young gamers of every stripe. From the tarrasque to the peryton, from the mighty-small dune stalker to the nightshade, Kim brings it all back to the table.
 

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This looks interesting.

Are there really no reviews yet? The product page at trolllord.com says no.

Is there a preview, perhaps of the Table of Contents?
 


This looks interesting.

Are there really no reviews yet? The product page at trolllord.com says no.

Is there a preview, perhaps of the Table of Contents?

This review popped up on the Troll Lord Facebook page last night. I'll poke around and find some more. I'm not in the offices this week...up in the Ozarks working on Rune Lore and watching buzzards circle...but will get a preview up mid-week next week.

Review

Thanks,
Steve
 



This review popped up on the Troll Lord Facebook page last night. I'll poke around and find some more. I'm not in the offices this week...up in the Ozarks working on Rune Lore and watching buzzards circle...but will get a preview up mid-week next week.

Review

Thanks,
Steve


Nice review here is a quote.

Over all I would recommend Classic monsters. While it has that classic feel. It also has a touch of innovation. Taking the best of the past and adding more utility to it. That to me is what Castles and Crusades in all about.
 

I was a Kickstarter supporter and have the PDF (thanks to the Troll Lords for hooking me up after I forgot to swing by Kickstarter again to download it). It's a REALLY solid book, bringing almost all of the 1E MM1 monsters that were missing, other than demons and devils, into C&C, along with counterparts for most of the missing SRD monsters, along with a good number of Fiend Folio and 1E MM2 critters (although sometimes under different names). There are also some new monsters -- like the grue from Zork -- which fit in perfectly with the rest.

If you play C&C to at least in part emulate the 1E vibe, it's a great purchase.
 

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