News, Video, Audio, Special Discounts and a Teaser!

Steve's latest video from Troll Lord Games is now on YouTube! In it you will find information about our new hard back binding capabilities, the latest news about the CK Guide and much more. Click here to watch it.  Steve is in his element, in the Troll Den and amongst his beloved Dr. Pepper cans.

We just released Crusader Journal 23 in PDF form. You can get your copy here. Inside you will find 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.
 There are also 20 questions thrown at Mark Allen, an article on traps by Casey Cannfield and much much more. Get your copy instantly by clicking here.

Today we also get a unique insight into one group’s gaming. Our friends at RPGMP3 have a great site where you can listen to or even upload your own audio in podcast form of your game. The Thistledown Gamers Guild has been uploading audio from their games there and it’s a lot of fun to go listen their roleplaying. Click here to listen to one of their latest sessions. It’s a real vibrant community at RPGMP3 so check them out and maybe start uploading some of your own sessions. Thanks to John Stephens for letting us know about this via twitter.

That brings me to another subject. If any of you out there want to share how you game, your take on gaming, or an interesting story about how your group formed, what you do for each game, etc. share it with us by emailing here. We would love to hear from you and may even feature it here on the blog or in the Troll’s Tusk.

We are still hammering away at the hardbacks and the mailroom is like a beehive. The special combo sale price for MT of Aihrde and Gods & Monsters is still ongoing. Get your copies today and keep the bearded one busy. Let’s see, what else? The PDF sale is ongoing but won’t be going for much longer so get what you can at these low prices before the sale goes away.

At the bottom of this page, you will notice a link to yfrog photos we are currently playing around with to test our ability to instantly upload photos from around the Troll Dens, Cons, whereever the Trolls might happen to be.  It's still in the testing stages but for now you can see whatever we are taking pics of.  Mostly it's been Tim with his TrollDog Maggie so far but there are a few of our fearless leader in there as well. More to come on that as we progress.

That’s all for now I guess.  Oh! The Teaser! Check back here later today for exciting news I just can't talk about right now. I'll post it here as soon as we can release the info. 

Busy Times in the Troll Dens!

MT of Aihrde and Gods & Monsters Hardback SALE!

For a limited time only, we are offering these two gorgeous hardback books together and deeply discounted. This is a huge thank you to all those Crusaders out there who may have purchased the perfect bound editions when they really wanted a hardcover. But now all of you can join in the savings! Go HERE to get this limited time special now!

PDF Sale Extended

As you probably know, we have been having a storewide sale of ALL of our PDF files here: http://bit.ly/ieeWET. This sale has now been extended through Midnight on February 3, 2011. The demand has been great and we wanted to show our appreciation by making it possible for everyone to take advantage of these great deals. So if you haven’t already, check out the sale and save today.

Twitter Only Sales

Our last Twitter only sale at our own TLG store was a huge success. We had Tainted Lands on sale for only 9 dollars from 10AM to Midnight last Friday. Continue to check our twitter feed for other Twitter only sales each week. Our official hashtag for Troll Lord Games and Castles and Crusades is #trolllordgames. Be sure to check there for the latest announcements about sales and specials and any forum like discussions from us and fans alike.

Preorder your Books Today

The long awaited Hard Cover editions of our most popular items are now available for Preorder at Troll Lord Games. All the rule books -- including the Castle Keeper’s Guide, Of Gods & Monsters, Monsters & Treasures, Monsters & Treasure of Aihrde, Players Handbook, as well as a special complete C&C that comes in a slip sleeve, sporting the gorgeous piece of fantasy art by our very own Peter Bradley -- are on sale now. Demands for these items are great so get your order in today!

Updates to the TLG Website

We have been working hard (mainly Brian) to revamp and update our TLG site. We’ve made it easier than ever to order our books not only from us, but from Amazon, RPGNow and DrivethruRPG. Soon we will have a character reference sheet available as an application on ITunes that will allow you to download it from ITunes. We will have more offerings coming on Itunes the future so I’ll let you know about those when they become available. Many more changes are in the works at the TLG site so check back often to see what’s going on.

Thanks

Each day we try to improve our service to you because that what you have come to expect and it’s important to us. Please let us know how we can serve you better. And thanks for being a loyal TLG/Castles & Crusades fan.

Twitter Only Sale and News

Thought you might like to know that we have a Twitter Only Friday Special until midnight tonight (Jan. 21 2011). Follow us here for news on the sale and for more TLG information: @trolllordgames

In other news, the CKG hardbound edition is being worked on now at Trolllord.com.  Pre-order your copy today and it will be shipped to you as soon as it's done!

Have an interesting Castles and Crusades story? Send it to tim_burns@chenaultandgray.com.  We would love to hear from you and may feature it in our newsletter or here on the blog.

Thanks for reading! Check back later for more news on us here at the Troll Dens.

The Blog is back!

The Troll Dens blog is back!

It’s been a while, but we are glad to be once again blogging. We are still working on the layout and formatting of this page, but hope to finish that this week.

We will use this space to talk about various things going on at Troll Lord Games and about Castles & Crusades and hopefully to get some feedback from you guys about what you like about TLG and what you would like to see more of.  Their will be occasional blogs by The Troll Lord himself and some by the motley bunch, Davis, Mark, Mac, Tim, etc.

Also, there are more ways than ever before to find out what we are up to.  Steve has a twitter account: @trolllordgames as well as Tim: @chenaultandgray and Facebook: Troll Lord and Castles & Crusades and if you want to find our online admin guy Tim Burns.  There are also numerous forums at Troll Lord and there is also a great Castles & Crusades Society.

We will also utilize this blog to announce our specials and offers we run.  Twitter and Facebook are great ways of getting out information, but sometimes the space allowed there just isn’t enough to say what we want to.

To that end, I’d like to tell you a little bit about our sale at RPGnow and DrivethruRPG.  It’s the biggest PDF sale we’ve run so far and I think if you take a look you will find something you have always wanted.  All items are on sale by at least 30%, some a lot more. Here are a few examples: Castles & Crusades Players Handbook is only 13.99, Monsters and Treasure is only 11.19, and the adventure They Call Him Guff is only 70 cents!  Everything we offer in PDF is marked down and it’s truly the best time to gather up all those things on your wish list.

Thanks for stopping by and please subscribe to follow this blog for more musings and information from us here at Troll Lord Games.

News at Last, Thank God Almighty there is News at Last!

Hey Folks,

I've been absent from the boards for several weeks, mainly working on the CKG, and as I'm way overdue for some news, here she goes . . .

Things are going to heat up a little around here. As I put more time into the CKG I'm going to move things around a bit in the schedule. All the below is set to give me more time into the CKG:

Neal joins us for the next two weeks and he's going to take over all the electronic uploads we've been needing to do, particularly over at Paizo, Game Hermit, RPGNow, Amazon etc.

I'm going to shift Crusader back one issue, a month's delay essentially. Resetting the magazine so that Issue 21 will ship in October, Issue 22 in November and so on. I'm doing this mainly so that I have more time in the short term to work on the CKG. I may have to do this again at some point in the very near future. So for the next few months it may get bumpy . . . certainly not as bad as it was back during the early days of the magazine.

Players Handbook is due to ship to these offices on the 23rd of this month, that 's this Wednesday. It normally ships in 2 days so that we will have the books late on Friday afternoon. Now, we are going to attempt to preset packaging and get a batch of them out on Friday, no promises on that though as we just never know when those tractor trailers are going to arrive.

Gods and Monsters is up next, but its going to have to wait a few more weeks for the pipe to clear.

The Screens continue to be a vexing problem. We are going to have another go at them this week.

CKG, chapter 21 wrap up today and tomorrow. This has really been the hardest chapter of it all, so hopefully this will prove to be the end game for this project.

We've launched the personalized Players Handbooks as well. Get your orders in quickly, if not the files, so we can set these up and start printing them. Thanks.

I'm sure there's more but it will have to come to me as it comes to me.

I have started a thread over on the message boards called News and More News. If you have any questions, please stop by and I'll do my best to answer them.

Thanks for playing,
Steve

Good Sweet Heavens

Gen Con, Hardbacks, Tainted Lands, too much unloading and loading...lots of work going on around here and the blog gets shucked to the side again. I'll update in the next coming days.

But in the short term, we returned from Gencon at 4 in the a.m. and we are back at the work bench hammering away: up next CKG.

Steve

Troll Con and Beyond

Hey all from the Troll Dens,

It was a very good show, whole lot of fun. Lots of games, visiting and hanging out. The set up was nice and the show went smooth as butter.

A very hearty Thank You to Jim Ward, the 501st and everyone else. The Troll Crew did an excellent job running the show and I thank you from me to them: Richard, Excellent job! Breakdaddy, Todd, Brian, Mark, Davis and all. Great job.

But the real thanks goes out to the people from John Adams and family to Robert Miller and Family and all the Wichita guys and everyone else who took the time and money to spend a weekend with us here in Little Rock. A very kind thank you very much from me to you.

We'll get some wrap ups in the next few days out for Crusader and what not but suffice it to say it was a real fun time.

And the real good news is that its only going to get better.

Lots to do around here, lots more work to be done. Gods is a wrap, PH is a wrap and we are on to Tainted Lands and the CKG. Its all bore now for Gencon and the fall releases. Soooo, I'm going to take a week off and go to Montana and walk around the glaciers there and get my head cleared.

But when I get back on the 20th we are going to hit the ground running.

Trollzah! and remember its a Troll World After All....hahah

Thanks for playing,
Steve

ps: Davis and Mark are in charge while I'm gone. That should be fun. :)

Message Boards

Hey folks,

The Message Boards are down. It appears to be a problem with the DNS on the providers end. Bryan is looking into some solutions. We may attempt to get some temp boards up.

Thanks for the patience!

Steve

Players

Steve: hard at work on PH edits and a little reformat.

Peter: hard at work on Gods and Monsters.

Davis: hard at work on CKG.

Mark: hard at work on Area mapping sheets.

Jim: hard at work on CKG.

Thanks for playing,
Steve

Growing Pains

Well as usual, we seem to be having growing pains. At least I hope its growing pains . . . .

Jim and Liz have just put Crusader 19 to bed and its a good one, chalk full of all kinds of articles. We have a few sneak peeks on the CKG in this issue as well.

Work on the Castle Keeper's Guide has been tremendous has knocked us off schedule with the A series, nothing unusual there as that poor series is constantly being knocked to the side. A6 has just now shipped and we'll announce its availability tonight or tomorrow night. We'll also put up some errata for the Monsters & Treasure, apparently we left out the stat block for the Shark.

But problems with the M&T have made us take a closer look at the PH which we are going over now. That has necessarily delayed that project by a week or so. This of course has delayed work on the CKG somewhat, but it has not impacted Gods & Monsters as that book is almost completely in Peter's court now. This has had a small impact on Tainted Lands though that project is well on its way for a Gencon Release.

In short we have a ripple affect going up and down the line caused largely by the PH delays. I'll have a better assessment next week of where we are on everything.

Thanks for playing!
Steve

A6 Shattered the Horn

A6 Of Banishment & Blight is finally done and ready to ship. It took a monstrous last minute effort to align text and the 12 odd maps in the book. Davis made a kick ass adventure, but good lord are the maps complicated, 7 towers over 7 causeways to 7 dungeons that lead to a central dungeon that has four levels.

Ug. I hate Davis sometimes. And have let him know quite a bit.

But he has been pounding out the CKG and we invited Jim Ward's input as well and Jim has turned over some remarkable material. The book is well on its way to being completed.

I'm now doing some wrap up for Crusader 19, it should be shipping by early next week at the lastest. So that's good.

After that, some more CKG and then on to Tainted Lands. Box cover is done, now to editing and guts.

And then, Cleaver the Pit. Look for a box set of the game, version 2 I think, this coming Gencon!

Thanks for playing.
Steve