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Greetings from the Dens! Castles & Crusades Jack of Lies has floated around the Dens for years, and its finally coming out! But we want it to be even better than planned! We want to see this come out as a hardback book. It was planned as a softcover, but its size and content just beg for hardcover status.
Help us make it happen!
If we can get $4000.00 in pre-orders for Jack of Lies we'll print this as a hardback. If not we'll proceed apace and do it as a softcover. Your pledge for the printed book is good either way. Be sure to check out the higher pledges with 17 x 22 inch maps of the city and area!
The good news is Jack of Lies is PRINT READY. That means if you join us and pre-order today you'll receive a digital copy (assuming you order one) within 72 hours of the order (the 72 hours accounts for weekends!). So you can plunge into the City by the Sea immediately!
“Trust you to watch your back, never go into this city without a sharp blade hid upon your body or tied to your waist. Look to the guards only with their hand out for a bribe, and never, never, never, insult a noble or a middle man!”
Jack of Lies
Product Type/Format & Price: 8.5 x 11 softcover, 136 pages;
$19.99 softcover/$24.99 hardcover
Ordering Info: TLG 8508, ISBN 978-1-936822-45-4
Eskadia, the City Upon the Sea, lies far north of the Haunted Highlands upon the Vestlig Sea, where merchants ply their wares and pirates hunt. Eskadia stands upon the edge of the world.
One of the most powerful of the western City-States, Eskadia has the singular distinction of being one of the deadliest cities in all of world. Trade barons and guild-masters constantly vie for power and control over shipping and rights to raw materials. Sweatshops and workhouses crank out finished goods and crafts to be traded and sold throughout the continent. Every guild-master seeks to be an officially recognized representative to the Western League, and earn the coveted title of Prince of Eskadia.
Of course, Eskadia did not get its reputation because of the petty squabbling of its craftsmen and merchants. Eskadia has a long and storied history as a center of underworld activity, cult worship, and black magic. The Knives of Shambere, Cult of Night, The Middlemen, and the Legion of Swords all have strongholds within its high stone walls. While some of these groups, such as the Legion of Swords work above boards, the Knives of Shambere and Cult of Night wizard-priests remain in the shadows. Each of these powerful groups feasts upon the constant discord of Eskadia like a parasite.
Jack of Lies comes complete with everything needed to create the ultimate city adventure and campaign: full descriptions of the city from the walls, down the streets and into the alleys, to the neighborhoods, markets, plazas on to the inns and taverns, gatehouses, tenements and more; it also includes all those elements that make a city come alive, from the city government, encounter areas, major personages, new monsters, a new race, the Changling and much, much more.
Adventure Awaits!
Jack of Lies is a complete serial adventure as well.
Eskadia is a web of city politics spun by the spiders that run all men’s affairs. There are those who are self-serving, others who think only of the good they are doing, others still who seek money or fame at any price, and still those put forward by others and are little more than puppets. But above it all are those hungry for power and they will do anything to grasp it in hand and keep it. It’s a dangerous web of deceit and corruption. Into this, back alley knife play, spies and counter spies, tavern brawls, and street duels the characters find themselves. Strangers in a city that is alive with intrigue. It is theirs to navigate the tangles weave or be ensnared in a web most deadly.
Jack of Lies comes complete with city maps, area of interest maps and a world map.
Help us make it happen!
If we can get $4000.00 in pre-orders for Jack of Lies we'll print this as a hardback. If not we'll proceed apace and do it as a softcover. Your pledge for the printed book is good either way. Be sure to check out the higher pledges with 17 x 22 inch maps of the city and area!
The good news is Jack of Lies is PRINT READY. That means if you join us and pre-order today you'll receive a digital copy (assuming you order one) within 72 hours of the order (the 72 hours accounts for weekends!). So you can plunge into the City by the Sea immediately!
“Trust you to watch your back, never go into this city without a sharp blade hid upon your body or tied to your waist. Look to the guards only with their hand out for a bribe, and never, never, never, insult a noble or a middle man!”
Jack of Lies
Product Type/Format & Price: 8.5 x 11 softcover, 136 pages;
$19.99 softcover/$24.99 hardcover
Ordering Info: TLG 8508, ISBN 978-1-936822-45-4
Eskadia, the City Upon the Sea, lies far north of the Haunted Highlands upon the Vestlig Sea, where merchants ply their wares and pirates hunt. Eskadia stands upon the edge of the world.
One of the most powerful of the western City-States, Eskadia has the singular distinction of being one of the deadliest cities in all of world. Trade barons and guild-masters constantly vie for power and control over shipping and rights to raw materials. Sweatshops and workhouses crank out finished goods and crafts to be traded and sold throughout the continent. Every guild-master seeks to be an officially recognized representative to the Western League, and earn the coveted title of Prince of Eskadia.
Of course, Eskadia did not get its reputation because of the petty squabbling of its craftsmen and merchants. Eskadia has a long and storied history as a center of underworld activity, cult worship, and black magic. The Knives of Shambere, Cult of Night, The Middlemen, and the Legion of Swords all have strongholds within its high stone walls. While some of these groups, such as the Legion of Swords work above boards, the Knives of Shambere and Cult of Night wizard-priests remain in the shadows. Each of these powerful groups feasts upon the constant discord of Eskadia like a parasite.
Jack of Lies comes complete with everything needed to create the ultimate city adventure and campaign: full descriptions of the city from the walls, down the streets and into the alleys, to the neighborhoods, markets, plazas on to the inns and taverns, gatehouses, tenements and more; it also includes all those elements that make a city come alive, from the city government, encounter areas, major personages, new monsters, a new race, the Changling and much, much more.
Adventure Awaits!
Jack of Lies is a complete serial adventure as well.
Eskadia is a web of city politics spun by the spiders that run all men’s affairs. There are those who are self-serving, others who think only of the good they are doing, others still who seek money or fame at any price, and still those put forward by others and are little more than puppets. But above it all are those hungry for power and they will do anything to grasp it in hand and keep it. It’s a dangerous web of deceit and corruption. Into this, back alley knife play, spies and counter spies, tavern brawls, and street duels the characters find themselves. Strangers in a city that is alive with intrigue. It is theirs to navigate the tangles weave or be ensnared in a web most deadly.
Jack of Lies comes complete with city maps, area of interest maps and a world map.
