The ultimate game of Sword and Sorcery! Castles & Crusades Basic Set is an introductory game for new and beginning players with material particularly designed and written for people that are entirely new to role playing games. The C&C Basic Set presents novices all the necessary information to quickly launch their own game of C&C. Modeled after the best selling Castles & Crusades Role Playing Game, C&C Basic promises to streamline the rules, making character creation faster and easier. This version of the game is tailor made for a younger audience.

The Castle Keeper’s Game Book provides all the essentials for playing the game. Children have known how to role play for millennia, C&C Basic gives them the direction to really develop their role playing desires. Explanations on how RPGs work and how to work with RPGs kick start the CK’s Game Book.  Inside the reader is presented rules on how The Siege Engine works with attribute checks and how to use them; combat rules, saving throws, spell resistance and more. Explanations of how to award experience points are presented along with monster and treasure lists. Further explanations on how to design and run adventures are included.

The Player Character Game Book provides the reader with all the information needed to design a character and start play. Included are the four main classes (Fighter, Wizard, Rogue and Cleric) and two racial classes (Elf and Dwarf), rules on attributes, how to place them, rolling hit points and keeping track of damage. As well as rules for spell acquisition, equipment lists.  Guidelines on how to play are all supplied.

The Iron Tusks of Cleversound. This short, introductory adventure plunges the newly minted characters into a dungeon adventure. The villages of the Little River Country have long been plagued by bandits and strange pale monsters. Those who dwell along the Little River speak of the ruins of Castle Mar, under which lie, in dark shadows and halls of stone ancient dungeon ruins. It is up to the characters to plunge into the deep darks and root out an evil long and old. An adventure for beginning level characters.

Physical Packaging: The Castles & Crusades Basic set comes in a complete 11.5 x 9 inch box that is 1.5 inches deep. It includes two books, The Castle Keeper’s Game Book and the Player Character Game Book,  a loose sheet of character reference sheets (pre-punched for inclusion in any notebook), The Iron Tusks of Cleversound adventure, (pre-punched for notebook use), Castle Keeper Screens and dice.