Castles & Crusades Castle Keepers Guide

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Updated March 5, 2011:  File has been updated to include hyperlinks through the tables index and some minor errata.

Updated March 1, 2011: File has been updated to include bookmarks through all chapters.

Rule Book, 280+ pages, Watermarke...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades A11 The Wasting Way

Adventure Type: Overland, Swamp, Bridge, Barbican Level: 11-13 Party: 3-5 characters Setting: Aihrde, Portable to Home-brew The Grausamland - a gray mire of marsh, bogs, sluggish creeks, and deep pools - stands a barrier to those who would enter the giant fortress of Aufstrag. A thousand square miles of impenetrable swamp lands peopled by monsters great and small; with fang and claw, upon dusk...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades Monsters & Treasure of Aihrde

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Sourcebook, 176 pages, Softcover, ISBN 978-1-929474-42-4<o:p></o:p>

Within Monsters & Treasure of Aihrde lies a veritable host of legendary monsters for your Castles & Crusades game. From the epic monsters of time's deep to the wandering miscreants of the savage plains, Monsters & ...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades A7 Beneath the Despairing Stone

Adventure Type: Dungeon Level: 7-9 Party: 3-5 characters Setting: Aihrde, Portable to Home-brew In that time before the All-father warded the world of Airhde, many creatures were already roaming his dreaming creation. These were the Val-Eahrakun. Of that order were the Oonmaukling, elemental lords of staggering power. Unklar, the Horned God, bound one of these oonmaukling to him and set it ...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades I1 Into the Unknown: Vakhund

No introductions are necessary for I know well who you are, my intrepid adventurer.

A weary traveler indeed. Have a seat, my friend, before you enter the Graffenvold and traverse its byways. Have you come here to rest, to leave the muddy tracks and sharp edges of the world behind? Is that, it my fine fellow? Or have you come to beat down the Lords of this Land and submit them to your wi...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades S2 Dwarven Glory

Adventure Type: 3 Dungeon adventures Level: ranges Party: 4-8 characters Setting: Aihrde, Portable to Home-brew But those days, mired as they are in the depths of time, are but echoes heard now by few and remembered by only the oldest and most learned of the scholars. Grausumhart’s cities have all but vanished from the face of Aihrde; only ruins remain, and even these have become as much...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades U4 Curse of the Khan

Now Available in PDF!

Adventure Type: Dungeon Level: 6-11 Party: 4-6 characters Setting: Aihrde, Portable to Home-brew In days long gone, the Crawling Queen, a creature of the abyss, lorded over the lands of man, elf and dwarf. Her reign was terrible and the lamentations of the suffering people carried into the heavens! In time a dwarven prophet, St. Canor, came to their aid and, leadi...   [click here for more]

Crusader Journal No. 24

Featured Articles:

Alea Iacta Est: Epic Days Keeping the Adventure Through High Levels

Harvesters: A Look at the Outlands of Wheat Hollow by John P. Seibel

Historical Footnotes: Life in the 24th Century...B.C. by Joseph Wolz

Special Features:

Maps for the Making by Peter Bradley

The Angry Gamer: Continual Flame

and much more!...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades A2 Slag Heap

West of the Blacktooth Ridge, in the Barren Wood, lies the gnome town of Havenwale. For many years the gnomes of Havenwale lived in peace, content to mine their wealth and live off the fruit of their labor. In the space of many years, they amassed great hordes of diamonds, mined from beneath their very feet. But this wealth was to be their undoing.

Rumors of their wealth came to the Wit...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades U1 Verdant Rage

The hooves of the bay stallion crunched loudly upon the pine needles littering the floor of the Everwood, making the hooded figure leading the animal wince in consternation. As with all those who ply their profession with stealth, such rampant noisemaking was abhorrent to the nature of the man, a ranger by career - traveling deep into the wild woods of the valley. The melodic rustle of the leav...   [click here for more]

Adventures A6-A10 [BUNDLE]

 Castles & Crusades A10 The Last Respite Regular price: $3.42 Bundle price: $3.68

Upon the backs of vultures adventure flies

Upon the edge of the Gray Pools lies the town of Gr...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades A10 The Last Respite

Upon the backs of vultures adventure flies

Upon the edge of the Gray Pools lies the town of Grafika, a squalid heap of cobbled roads and ruined buildings where the washed up remnants of a shattered empire gather. Here the wealth of the empire’s ruin passes through the small hands of small men; here the echoes of its glory ring hollow.

Over a morass of pools and mired swamp...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades Breaking Heads

Breaking Heads is an encounter area for 3-5 characters in the mid-level range. It is designed as a plug and play encounter; either run by itself for a few hours of fun or as an encounter inserted into an ongoing campaign. It includes 4 pages of information Bents Trading Post, and 2 pages worth of NPCs and the set up for a classic brawl turned ugle.

Bents Trading Post stands upon the ban...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades Classic Monsters The Manual

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 a...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades Complete [BUNDLE]

This is the character reference sheet that appears in the 4th Printing of the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook.

Castles & Crusades Players Handbook

The Castles & Crusades Players Handbook comes in Full Color

With Iron Heel the World Grinds Away

Plunge into worlds of fantastic adventure where dragons lie and the undead stalk the shades of your mind’s imagines, where creatures of legend plunder wealth through the horror of their passage. Monsters grim and foul hold the ecstasy of gold and the renown of...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades River Walk

Radgar One Eye has set a up a clever snare on the Powder River, passing down it means passing through him!

River Walk is an encounter area for 3-5 characters in the mid-level range. It is designed as a plug and play encounter; either run by itself for a few hours of fun or as an encounter inserted into an ongoing campaign. It includes several pages of background on the river and travel ...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades S4 A Lion in the Ropes

Adventure Type: Overland, Dungeon Level: 4-8 Party: 1-4 characters Setting: Aihrde, Portable to Home-brew Boots wet from crossing the small river, you tramp up onto the remnants of an old road. A small village lies before you. Its mostly wooden cottages stand arrayed in neat order along either side of the road. The dinner hour is only just passed and the town is muted and dark. Shutters and do...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades The Goblins of Mount Shadow

Many long years ago the denizens of Mount Yr Wyddfa crawled beneath the earth; foul minded fey, goblins and others of that ilk; they fled for reasons unknown to any but themselves. The terraced slopes, the valleys, ravines and forested highlands settled in peace, farms spread along the greens, people settled and prospered. But the world unfolds, for ever turning, mirroring the past. It began wi...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades Thorns for Beer

Thorns for Beer is an encounter area for 3-5 characters in the mid-level range. It is designed as a plug and play encounter; either run by itself for a few hours of fun or as an encounter inserted into an ongoing campaign. It includes 2 pages of information on the village of Willowbreak, and a 2 page adventure.

Thorns for Beer finds the characters on a forest track heading for the villa...   [click here for more]

Castles & Crusades Town of Kalas

Sitting on the banks of the Ganda river estuary, the town of Kalas has a population of some 8,000 souls. The Town sees a great deal of business pass in through its gates; river barges coming down from the lakes, seagoing merchant vessels and privateers, as well as caravans coming in from the Ust-Aan steppes. The town serves as a trading centre, a rest stop, and as a place to refit vessels, cara...   [click here for more]

Crusader Journal No. 21

Feature Articles Alea Iacta Est: Tainted Campaigns The Dead, The Dying and the Undead. We take a look at horror in a game of Castles & Crusades. Product Highlights Jim Ward takes a look at his latest creation, the Tainted Lands, a rule set for playing games of horror! CKG?! We take a final peak at the long delayed, much belabored Castle Keeper’s Guide. <>...   [click here for more]

Crusader Journal No. 23

Feature Articles Alea Iacta Est: The Continuation of a three part article. Iron Guts, Adventure for Mid-level Characters. We take a look at what it takes to run mid-level adventures, how to balance growing power with monster abilities. 20 Questions Thrown at Mark Allen! Artist Mark Allen does his best to answer the most pointless questions he’s ever been asked!

It's...   [click here for more]

Magnificent Miscellaneum Vol. 2

Every issue of this ongoing series of supplements contains a magical mix of wondrous wizardry, potent priestcraft, monstrous menaces, mystical magic items, and more. With a touch of humor and classic gaming goodness, the Magnificent Miscellaneum is a collection of various materials for your Castles & Crusades, Amazing Adventures, Harvesters, Tainted Lands, Star Siege, and Fields of Battle g...   [click here for more]

Magnificent Miscellaneum Vol. 4

Every issue of this ongoing series of supplements contains a magical mix of wondrous wizardry, potent priestcraft, monstrous menaces, mystical magic items, and more. With a touch of humor and classic gaming goodness, the Magnificent Miscellaneum is a collection of various materials for your Castles & Crusades, Amazing Adventures, Harvesters, Tainted Lands, Star Siege, and Fields of Battle g...   [click here for more]