Castles & Crusades Quickstart Guide

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The Castles & Crusades Quick Start Guide contains everything needed to create heroic characters and enter a world of fantastic adventure. A world where brave adventurers battle ancient dragons, descend into dungeons in search of treasure and glory, and rescue mystic artifacts from the clutches of evil wizards.

Content Overview / Features

This is a basic sample conversion of some parts of the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook.  Please Note - This product still contains OGL content and is not part of the Reforged OGL removal program. This Quickstart Guide contains premade characters, monsters, items, spells and an Adventure to jumpstart players right into a game and includes the following features and items:

• Full descriptions of Four iconic classes, cleric, fighter, rogue, and wizard, from 1st to 4^th level as class options from the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook
• Full descriptions of Four iconic classes, dwarf, elf, halfling, and human as race options from the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook
• Full Equipment lists from the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook with a sample of searchable lists containing items, mundane and magical that can be dragged to character sheets, treasure parcels, or NPCs for ease of reference, encumbrance calculations, and ease of disbursement. The searchable lists contain a sample of all the items listed in the C&C Players Handbook (Adventuring Gear, Armor, Weapons, Containers, Charged Items.)
• Draggable weapons that auto-enter the inventory, weight, attack type (melee, ranged, thrown), and the damage.
• 250+ Items & spells from the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook the ready to drag and drop to your character sheet.
• 30+ Actors - NPCs and Monsters from the Castles & Crusades Monsters & Treasure reference manual along with tokens and Images.
• Relevant Journals and Scenes to help bring your table to life.
• Four Pre-generated characters that are fully equipped and ready to play.
• Complete instructions on how to create characters, play, and even run a game of Castles & Crusades.
• Free starter adventure, THE WIZARDS TOWER, an adventure for for 3 to 5 characters of 1st or 2nd level to get you playing Castles & Crusades right away!
  

  The young mage Andrew Meadow has not been seen in some months and a comely young woman has taken up residence in his tower claiming to be his wife she shrugged off the locals but many suspect that she is more than she seems and that she has done something to their beloved mage.

All these features have been compiled into sections within a special reference manual specifically formatted for ease of play on FoundryVTT at the table or over the Internet.

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• FoundryVTT - Castles & Crusades Castle Keepers Guide
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• FoundryVTT - Castles & Crusades Beneath the Canopy Green Adventure Series

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Licensing Information

This product's format, programming code, and presentation is copyrighted by Foundry Gaming, LLC.

This system & prodcut are used with permission granted as part of the partnership agreement between Foundry Gaming LLC and Troll Lord Games LLC. It uses the following trademarks and/or copyrights:

©2025 Troll Lord Games. All Rights Reserved. Castles & Crusades® is a registered Trademark of Chenault & Gray Publishing L.L.C., d/b/a Troll Lord Games. SIEGE Engine™ is Trademark Chenault & Gray Publishing L.L.C., d/b/a Troll Lord Games. The Troll Lord Games, Castles & Crusades, SIEGE Engine, and Troll Lord Games logos are Trademarks of Troll Lord Games. All Rights Reserved. 2025.

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