Troll Lord Games

For Immediate Release: Digital Adventures & Troll Lord Games Presents: Castles & Crusades for Fantasy Grounds II

With the Castles & Crusades role-playing game, these imaginings come to life as you play the role of a hero seeking adventure in a fantastic world populated by mythic creatures and legendary beasts. Or, as the Castle Keeper, you can design the worlds and stories that make up the game, guiding friends and fellow gamers through epic adventures in wondrous settings of your own making. Now everything thing you need to play Castles & Crusades with your others across the globe is now possible with this Fantasy Grounds II ruleset.

Castles & Crusades is an easy to learn, fast paced fantasy role playing game suitable for novice and veteran gamers of all ages. The Castles & Crusades Players Handbook and Monsters & Treasure manual provide all the essential information needed to play a game of Castles & Crusades. Players can choose among 13 archtypal character classes and 7 races to create their characters. Spells, equipment, fast-paced combat rules, monsters, treasures, examples of play and endless hours of fun and enjoyment can be found in these two books. All of this C&C information is included in this Fantasy Grounds conversion.

"Digital Adventures has done an amazing job with this online version of Castles & Crusades," says Stephen Chenault, CEO of Troll Lord Games, "The conversion of our game to Fantasy Grounds II is truly amazing, with a flawless interface that is every bit as easy to use as the print version. This is a very welcome induction for C&C into the digital age!"

What's included with the Castles & Crusades Ruleset for Fantasy Grounds II:

* Stunning graphical interface based on the artistic genius of Peter Bradley, complete with a fully functional Castles & Crusades character sheet.

* The complete Player's Handbook for Castles & Crusades converted to a library module, including all 13 archetypal character classes and seven races from which to create your characters. Also includes all spells, equipment, combat rules -- all essential information needed to play Castles & Crusades online!

* Everything from Monsters & Treasures for Castle & Crusades is also included as a library module, from dragons and giants to gargoyles and satyrs, over 200 monsters that is enough to challenge and entertain novice and experienced players alike. Details for monster combat, spell casting, breath weapons, movement and poisons, along with rules for creating monsters of one's own design. Magical weapons, rings, rods, staves and many other devices such as artifacts and cursed items are also detailed within the Castles & Crusades Monsters & Treasure module as well.

* Over 170 tokens generated from the interior art of the Player's Handbook and Monsters & Treasures. Tokens from all the races, as well as multiple tokens for monsters of various sizes.

* Free starter adventure, THE RISING KNIGHT, an adventure for 1st-level starting characters to get you playing Castles & Crusades right away!

The Castles & Crusades Ruleset for Fantasy Grounds is available for download now at the Digital Adventures Online Store: http://www.digitaladventures.net/catalog/, for the affordable price of $10.00.

These products have been created for use with Fantasy Grounds II, and were developed with the latest updates for Fantasy Grounds II, so please update your installation accordingly. These products will not work with any other version of Fantasy Grounds. For information on product updates and upgrades visit our website at: www.digitaladventures.net.

This Castles & Crusades product was written for the Fantasy Grounds II software from SmiteWorks. For more information on products from Troll Lord Games visit their website at http://www.trolllord.com. For more information on Fantasy Grounds visit SmiteWork's website at http://www.fantasygrounds.com. These products are Copyright 2007, Troll Lord Games & Digital Adventures, LLC. Used with permission from Troll Lord Games. This products' format, programming code, and presentation is copyrighted by Troll Lord Games and Digital Adventures, LLC. Redistribution by print or by file is strictly prohibited.

Enjoy!


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Kevin W. Melka

Digital Adventures, LLC
http://www.digitaladventures.net

Congratulations!
Very exciting for C&C online gamers...
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Yay! Now I can get that C&C group started with the old buddies I moved away from.
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"Um... just how -does- one wield a vorpal gnome, man?"

Excellent! Now our gamers can be properly equipped for long distance digital gaming of our favorite fantasy roleplaying system

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along with rules for creating monsters of one's own design.

Interesting.

Sorry if this question has been answered somewhere in all these FG threads, but does one have to buy the main FGII program to run the C&C ruleset add-on??

Thanks.
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Count Rhuveinus - Lejendary Keeper of Castle Franqueforte

"Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!" ~ Gary Gygax

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:" - Macbeth

Rhuvein wrote:
Sorry if this question has been answered somewhere in all these FG threads, but does one have to buy the main FGII program to run the C&C ruleset add-on??

Thanks.

That is correct.

KMelka wrote:
That is correct.

Now, the next question is, Where is the link for said program? The dark side of the force is obscuring our search fu.
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"We'll go out through the kitchen!" Tanis Half-Elven

Peter Bradley

KMelka wrote:
That is correct.

OK, where?
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Count Rhuveinus - Lejendary Keeper of Castle Franqueforte

"Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!" ~ Gary Gygax

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:" - Macbeth

Rhuvein wrote:
OK, where?

http://www.fantasygrounds.com/

It's pretty damn cool

gideon_thorne wrote:
Now, the next question is, Where is the link for said program?

http://www.digitaladventures.net/catalo ... ucts_id=75

That should take you there... I bought it last night and so far it's lookin' good.
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"Um... just how -does- one wield a vorpal gnome, man?"

Thanks for the follow-up!

Also note that to run the C&C ruleset you do need the full version of the software. You do not have to buy the ruleset to play, only run. You can create characters "offline" with the full version, but not the lite version. With the lite version you have to be connected to a game to play, as the components of the ruleset get temporarily downloaded to the lite session to do this. After that the character "lives" on the hosting full session "server".

This is all covered at www.fantasygrounds.com, but I wanted to throw that out there for those of you who have not purchased the software yet. Any more question please post them and we'll try to answer them ASAP.
Cheers!

Kevin Melka

Digital Adventures, LLC

How easy is it to add house rules?

I've read some of the posts at FG about making your own rule sets (xml)... does the ruleset prevent it or is it just a matter of tweaking the code files?
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Emryys wrote:
How easy is it to add house rules?

I've read some of the posts at FG about making your own rule sets (xml)... does the ruleset prevent it or is it just a matter of tweaking the code files?

Unless you create something "from scratch", you basically just tweak the existing ruleset. I won't lie and say it is easy, but it is not impossible either. It is just a question of learning the code and how it interacts with the FGII engine. There are many examples and tutorials over at www.fantasygrounds.com if you're interested. Having a programming background helps, but not required.

Fantasy Grounds is very customizable; if it weren't my company wouldn't be able to create these cool products.
Kevin Melka

Digital Adventures, LLC

Good morning! I wanted to chime in and make myself available for any questions you might have regarding the ruleset. I have worked on the C&C ruleset for the past 3 months and feel it is a true representation of the core books. As a fan of C&C, I'm way geeked to have a FGII port of the game and I look forward to running some FGII one-shots in the near future. If you are interested in checking out the ruleset, let me know and I will make sure to include you in future info related to the one-shot adventures.

Thanks.
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Rom Elwell
romelwell@gmail.com

Developer: C&C Ruleset for Fantasy Grounds II

Digital Adventures, LLC
http://www.digitaladventures.net

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The Lost City of Barakus: A C&C campaign using FGII
http://castles-and-crusades.wikispaces.com/

Hey Rom, thanks for making yourself available for questions! I look forward to a full game of C&C with your C&C ruleset and FGII. I have some friends scattered across the U.S. right now and they are really stoked about this. I just need to get them bootcamped on winXP so they can use said program (they are both mac users, thankfully on the E6600 Intel Processor).

Well, I for one am interested in what you guys think. A lot of long, late hours went into making this between Rom and I, along with others.

synabetic wrote:
http://www.fantasygrounds.com/

It's pretty damn cool

http://www.digitaladventures.net/catalo ... ucts_id=75

That should take you there... I bought it last night and so far it's lookin' good.

Thanks for the links. So we're talking $45.00 to get this going. Not complaining about the price, but I like to have all the info before deciding .

I'll be watching for more reviews.

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Count Rhuveinus - Lejendary Keeper of Castle Franqueforte

"Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!" ~ Gary Gygax

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes:" - Macbeth

Yeah, the price for the GM can be a bit on the steep side, considering. But on the bright side, the players don't have to get as much...

Personally, I feel it's worth it. FG looks and runs great and adds a nice dynamic/element to the online game. You don't need it, and there's free stuff out there that does the job, but FG has done right by me so far.
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"Um... just how -does- one wield a vorpal gnome, man?"

Great to hear! Looking forward to seeing what is said about this.

-O
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