Troll Lord Games

<t>January's issue #15 went out on the 30th. We all did some tweeking and I think it is one of the top issues of CRUSADER ever to go out. I promised you some new and cool things in the magazine and I'm starting to deliver. If you don't have a subscription you are going to want one because these issu...

The red-head in the ad is of course Elise Gygax Gary's daughter. There is a star frontiers ad with her in a gold miniskirt that is fairly amazing. In the day she was just what the D&D player wanted.

I like all of Gary's kids, pleasant folks.

James M. Ward

<t>I haven't started it yet, but currently I'm thinking about having the player characters gain supernatural and physic ability traits. As time in the Tainted Lands lengthens those traits change. The supernatural number gets smaller and smaller and the physic one gets larger and larger. When those n...

Hurray! I just finished the Norse Pantheon. Now I only have the Roman one to do and I'm done with this project. I hope there are a lot of you looking to buy this one, it was a bit more worked than I thought it would be.

James M. Ward

<t>I'm happy to say we have added free maps to 15 per your request and will probably do this every month. How about that for quick service?<br/> <br/> We are already doing NPCs with a little bit of story. <br/> <br/> Now all you fans have to do is keep subscribing, I need to get those numbers up as ...

<t>At the present time it is set squarely in the historical middle ages on a nice piece of fantasy ground with all the tainted wizards, tainted dragons, and tainted new things you could ask for. If the set is popular at all, we can always move it up the line with rules for modern day and science fic...

<t>People, People, People, I'm so happy Steve has set up this page in the forum. Steve and I talk about important product that Troll Lords could make and I could design. I'm just finishing up the GODS AND MONSTERS hardbound book that's coming out in a few months. I've always wanted to do a Horror pr...

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I'm happy to report that I just finished the Japanese Pantheon and sent it on to get its art worked up. I only have two more to go: Norse and Roman and both are going to be great fun with some amazing weapons and magic items.

James M. Ward

<t>I am very happy to say I just turned over the India Pantheon and I'm starting the Japanese Pantheon as we speak. That means I only have the Japanese, Norse, and Roman pantheons to do and I will be done! I'm a tad behind as I should have been done by now, but it will make its release date. <br/> <...

<r>Serleran,<br/> <br/> please get in contact with me at <EMAIL email="sirjmw@aol.com">sirjmw@aol.com</EMAIL> and we can talk about articles. I'm always looking to add people to write for Crusader magazine. After all, now that we are 36 pages I need to think about the time when we are 48 pages long....

I'm very careful when I deal with Trolls in any way. it is my belief that trolls from the Troll Lord company should be extremely special products. I didn't work with trolls and their deities, but because of that fact.

James M. Ward

<t>I learned a lot by watching DRAGON magazine grow. I was also its publisher for several years and so you will see the best features of DRAGON appearing in CRUSADER magazine. If you haven't gotten your subscription already, please seriously consider getting a sub to the magazine right now. It could...

<t>What I did on the humanoid pantheon was to present two of each race, two orcs, two kobolds, two ogres, etc. Then I said that any orc could worship a kobold god and gain its faith powers, all they had to do was turn the kobold into an orc image. So they said it was an orc they were worshiping even...

Good job DD.

I appreciate your work because who knows someday we might be seeing each other across the bars.

Jim Ward

<t>10. Paranoia<br/> <br/> 9. Toon<br/> <br/> 8. Rifts<br/> <br/> 7. Traveller<br/> <br/> 6. Castles and Crusades<br/> <br/> 5. Star Wars WEG<br/> <br/> 4. Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium<br/> <br/> 3. Runequest<br/> <br/> 2. Ghostbusters, WEG<br/> <br/> 1. Dungeons and Dragons<br/> <br/> WHAT'S THE DEAL!...

<t>I just finished the humanoid pantheon, man it was a lot of work. You would think when you can make everything up it would be quicker and easier, but it seems the historical ones all took shorter times. I'm on the India one now, I've finished 11 of these and have 4 more to do. <br/> <br/> James M....

We are getting some really good adventures with great maps. I think you will like what's coming up better than a few of my old towers.

James M. Ward

I appreciate the suggestion about the map. I will talk with others and see what we can do.

By the way do you have your subscription to Crusader?

James M. Ward

Managing Editor

<r>This is James M. Ward the managing editor of Crusader. I just want to say a few things. <br/> <br/> If you are interested in writing for the magazine we are always looking for good articles. Feel free to contact me at <EMAIL email="sirjmw@aol.com">sirjmw@aol.com</EMAIL> with ideas and I will tell...

Thanks and your tower is pretty good. I am very pleased that Steve let me write that product in seven weeks. There are some stupid grammar flaws (all my fault) but I think I did a good job.

James M. Ward

<t>Vastly Amusing Dwarf!<br/> <br/> Unfortunately for my good friend the Troll Lord, he has sold his literary soul to his Managing Editor. <br/> <br/> The great deity Managing Editor demands that the Crusader magazine begins selling to as many consumers as possible. For that to happen an even greate...

<t>Serleran, you always ask the difficult questions. It is a goal for me in the 2009 year to post the magazine to subscribers the first Friday of every month. We are working toward that goal, but won't hit it for a bit. <br/> <br/> Consider that none of the people writing articles for the magazine g...

There are some female elves that the Drow love, but I try not to mention the Drow for other reasons. While there was one reference outside of TSR on the Drow, most of the references are made up by TSR.

Jim

<t>I am still working from the outline I posted back a couple of pages in this post. What I have left to do is the following:<br/> <br/> Humanoid Pantheon (Kobold, Goblin, Orc, Ogre, Lizardfolk, Hobgoblins)<br/> <br/> India Pantheon<br/> <br/> Japanese Pantheon<br/> <br/> Norse Pantheon<br/> <br/> R...

Hurray!

I just finished the Halfling Pantheon. Yes, there are some evil halfling deities, even though they were hard to write. I'm on to the Humanoid pantheon, only five more left and this manuscript is done!

James M. Ward

<t>People you are making me blush! Thank you very much for your kind comments about me and the magazine. I would like to state that we at Troll Lords are more than willing to look at article ideas anyone has for the magazine. Let me say again that we are working on 800 words a page. When you put in ...

<t>Hmmmmmmmm, I will make you both a deal. I really want you to read the gnomish deities as I have written them. If you still feel there needs to be some nastiness going on I will write a group of five more deities all with evil intent, but I'm betting you won't want them when you see what I have do...

<t>What a kind thing to say. Steve does most of the difficult work as he writes several articles, but I do like to think I've changed the face of the magazine. It's going to change a lot more in the months to come. Steve is a great boss and is letting me do what I think is best for the magazine. I g...

<t>Julian,<br/> <br/> I hope I answered your questions in the other post where your question showed up. 14 was sent on the 31 and it's still 32 pages. We are sending out 15 in the month of January and it's 36 pages. <br/> <br/> We are shooting for getting the magazine out in the first week of every ...

<t>Julian,<br/> <br/> I'm sorry you didn't get a quick answer where ever you first posted your question. You are also correct in thinking that if we are calling this magazine monthly you should have it in that month. <br/> <br/> I explained that we had a hiccup because of a death in the family. And ...