Looking to make a Castles and Crusades purchase

wolfpunk · Post by **wolfpunk** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:21 pm

I have 40 dollars to spend and I would like to purchase something for the Castles and Crusades game. I already have the Players and the Monsters and Treasures books.

So what else do I need to get and why?

Birthright · Post by **Birthright** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:37 pm

Buy a CK Screen - they look great and are really useful too.

moriarty777 · Post by **moriarty777** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:51 pm

Birthright wrote:
Buy a CK Screen - they look great and are really useful too.

And an adventure is included with it too!

Aside from that... are you looking for adventures or campaign setting material? You might like the Miasmal Wyrms accessory... a small accessory which has a few more critters to play with.

What sort of stuff would you like since, with the PHB and the M&T, you don't really *need* anything else.

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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:55 pm

Do you have a setting your happy with? If not check out the Airhde After Winterdark Folio.

The CK screen is an excellent CK screen. It really cuts down on opening the books during the game, except for spells and magic items.

It has the XP chart, treasure table, Unarmed Combat ruels (Grapple, Pummel, Overbearing, and Touch), situational Combat Modifiers table, Cover Chart, encumbrance, vision, and quick and dirty charts of the weapons and armor. You still need to look in the book for pricing, or order character sheets and keep the pricing list in that tagged to your CK screen.

As for modules, I have come to love A1 about as much as Keep on the Borderlands. The Goodman DCC conversions are pretty solid, so is Halfling Hall. I think I am going to end up liking A4 a lot too. Come to think of it A2 played a LOT better than it read, so getting A1 and A2 and A4 would be a good set to get. A3 played out as very tedious, with a couple of good encounters that ended up being pretty good, however for the A series to play out well you do need to have A3. It will play a bit better if the players don't kill everything and everyone first. There are a couple of NPC's in A3 that would make it much better if the PC's capture and talk to them.
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Alcahaelas · Post by **Alcahaelas** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:18 pm

The CK screen is a handy tool, I just got mine and I like it.

As mentioned before, it depends on what you're looking for. If you have your own campaign world and don't need a full folio to set your adventures in the you probably won't want to pick up one of the campaign settings. Instead you may wish to invest in a module series (such as the A series Treebore mentioned) to run your group through.

If you're looking for general resources then Moriarity mentioned one, and there are others, that give you extra materials to play with.

The Goodman Games conversions are decent from what I can see, I plan on picking up one or more of those sometime.

Or you can save the money and wait for the Castle Zagyg: Upper Works set, maybe couple that with Yggsburgh, Dark Chateau and the Eastmark Gazette, to have a good city setting (with surrounding lands) to run groups through the famous (infamous?) castle that Gary Gygax has used for many years to run groups through. Hopefully someday soon it'll be ready for distribution and we can start exploring the castle and it's underground areas designed by the master himself. However, nobody knows when that'll see the light of day so if you're anxious, one of the other suggestions is probably the way to go.
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wolfpunk · Post by **wolfpunk** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:10 am

Thanks for the quick suggestions.

Sounds like a CK Screen is definitely a must.

Alcahaelas · Post by **Alcahaelas** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:57 am

wolfpunk wrote:
Sounds like a CK Screen is definitely a must.

Look at this way -- even if you don't need all the tables and etc. on the inside, you can point that at the players and enjoy staring at the archer for a whole session.
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slimykuotoan · Post by **slimykuotoan** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:13 am

I'd go for the Erde/Ahirde setting.

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:20 am

I'll recommend in no particular order or preference, any or all of these:

A1 Assault on Blacktooth Ridge

C&C Character reference sheets

AWD Folio

CK screen

Castle Zagyg: Yggsburgh

Codex of Erde

CZ Eastmark Gazetteer

Dragons of Aihrde ~ Miasmal Wyrms

CZ Dark Chateau

Any other C&C adventure module

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Harry Joy · Post by **Harry Joy** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:36 am

Don't forget to look here - LINK - to see the CK screen in actual play.
Now that I've acquired, either by borrowing from Brutorz Bill or purchase from DTRPG, the Crusader Magazine back issues, and have given them a good look though, I'd suggest those as one of the more important supplemental purchases you could make.

As for other possibilities, I'm quite fond of the Winter Dark setting, having recently finished reading the new version, and I've had the original lying around for years. The Dragons book is sweet as well/

Omote · Post by **Omote** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:05 pm

While the Screen is top-notch, I'd reccomend for your $40.00 the Castle Zagyg: Yggsburgh book. You get a small setting, plus a ton of adventure, a city, Equipment lists, knightly orders, etc, etc, etc!

Good stuff.

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wolfpunk · Post by **wolfpunk** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:02 pm

Purchased the CK Screen and A1 today. Thanks again to everyone with suggestions and reasons, you guys are the best.

Alcahaelas · Post by **Alcahaelas** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:37 pm

wolfpunk wrote:
Purchased the CK Screen and A1 today. Thanks again to everyone with suggestions and reasons, you guys are the best.

Happy Hunting.
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seskis281 · Post by **seskis281** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:06 pm

wolfpunk wrote:
Purchased the CK Screen and A1 today. Thanks again to everyone with suggestions and reasons, you guys are the best.

Have fun - have been running A1 as the start of my campaign (with some personal additions and homebrewed stuff) and my players are having a blast - in fact they are all antsy because we haven't played in two weeks due to an LA trip and thanksgiving stuff. (P.S. I will update my chronicles soon... let it get 4 sessions behind lol).

The next one is finally the Varlgog.
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