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Castles & Crusades Players Handbook 7th Printing

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TLG 80107

Castles & Crusades Players Handbook, 7th Printing

We’ve moved to the 7th printing of the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook. A pillar of the table top RPG industry, Castles & Crusades embodies the spirit of the old-school gamer with the easy to use modern mechanics. The Players Handbook has all you need to get started in a wild ride of adventure!

It’s easy to learn attribute-based rules system allows players to choose among 13 archetypal character classes and 7 races to create their characters. Spells, equipment, fast-paced combat rules, and all essential information needed to play a game of Castles & Crusades is in this book.

Dice and Monsters & Treasure sold separately.

978-1-944135-48-5

You may also prefer this book with its Alternate Cover, from our recent very successful Kickstarter!

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VALENTINOS K December 28, 2020 5:40 pm UTC
I have a friend who is stuck with DnD 3.5...while the rest of us have kinda moved on from it.

He does agree he d like a more rules lite system but cant bring himself to actually read something that does this, something alien to d20.

So I m on the lookout for a simplified 3.X ,without the bloatiness and history of Pathfinder etc. My question is:

Would you say this system does that?
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Epi C April 19, 2021 9:59 am UTC
yes, the SIEGE engine mechanic greatly simplifies everything so your game runs smoothly
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Lee S August 03, 2020 4:57 am UTC
Just browsing through and had to giggle at the book being marked 'down' from $19.99 to $20.
;-)
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JJ P June 02, 2020 1:37 am UTC
Steven C.

I'd like to point out that you, like many others selling here, take poor advantage of the opportunity to convince potential customers to buy your product. Take a look at what you provide in the "Full Size Preview."

Cover
Blank page
Page of acknowledgements
Page of credits
Full page artwork
One of the TOC pages

What exactly of that is supposed to provide anything of substance for a potential buyer to be able to compare your system to any other? What makes yours better? Unique? Original?

Like many gamers I buy far more rules than I'll ever play. Some have unique backgrounds. Others unique mechanisms. Some more suitable for solo gaming. Some are scalable to cover a wide range of units from man to man tactical to small units to large units, to armies, to multiple armies. Some excel at one of those but none of the others. Some get bogged down in details that take time but really add nothing to gameplay except...See more
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February 10, 2019 8:19 pm UTC
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Three files to download, one titled "TLG_80106_Players_Handbook.pdf" and weighing in at 3.45 MB, two titled "TLG_80107_Players_Handbook_Standard_Digital.pdf" and weighing in at 9.88 MB. What's the difference?
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Stephen C February 13, 2019 10:03 pm UTC
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Some people like to have all the permutations of a file as it goes through revisions. For this reason we leave them all. The one at the bottom, the bottom of the 2 titled: "TLG_80107_Players_Handbook_Standard_Digital.pdf" is the latest version. Hope this helps! ~ Tim
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February 14, 2019 10:04 am UTC
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Either one, I assume?
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Mark P July 21, 2018 8:17 am UTC
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Is there any reason why most of the C&C core titles are suddenly MORE expensive in the sale? The change seems to have occured about early yesterday afternoon UT.

Cheers!

Mark

ps: I would have preferred to ask privately using the "Contact Us" option, but queries are rejected and can't be submitted if they don't have an order number.
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Stephen C July 21, 2018 10:42 am UTC
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Hi Mark! Thanks for letting me know about this. I have had similar issues on a couple comments this morning about a few other products of ours. I was rather long winded there, but the shorter answer is I do not know how it happened. Our base on a book that, in print, is over 24.99, is 19.99 in digital. But for some reason (and maybe it has to do with us manually screwing something up when we did a bundle or something) it seems to have reversed sale price and original price. I am going to go through all our books and see if this is occurring in other places, but this is the third book with the issue I've seen so far. I appreciate you letting me know. And not a problem on putting this out there; if we were a company that would do that on purpose, we should be called out on it. But we are not those kind of folks, I promise. We are just a bunch of goofballs who love to game. :-). But feel free, if you ever have any questions, you can always email me direct at tim @ trolllord (dot) com . Thanks again! ~...See more
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Mark P July 22, 2018 12:59 pm UTC
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Thanks very much for the reply, Tim.

Cheers,

Mark
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Stephen C December 08, 2017 7:51 pm UTC
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Hello! Can you tell me what exactly the issue is? Are you saying it won't discount it because it does not have the alternate bundle in the bundle? I'm happy to try and make it work for you! Tim
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December 08, 2017 10:00 pm UTC
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That's it exactly. When a customer has the Players Handbook 7th Printing alternate cover, these bundles do not recognize the purchased Players Handbook 7th Printing with respect to the handbook. It tries to charge the players handbook again.
- Castles & Crusades 3 Sisters (Core Books) [BUNDLE]
- Castles & Crusades Starter Pack! [BUNDLE]

I have since purchased the parts of these bundles separately, but you may want to correct for your other loyal and happy customers.

From the outside it would seem normal just to provide both covers in the same product offer if the content is the same, but obviously you have legitimate business or historical reasons to do otherwise. That said, I would expect customers to be somewhat confused.
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Stephen C December 11, 2017 1:01 pm UTC
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Thanks for that. I am not sure exactly how I can fix that, but will contact technical support and see what they can come up with. Glad you were able to get the other parts separately! ~ Tim
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April 04, 2018 11:31 pm UTC
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Trying to purchase the limited time offer of the Castles & Crusades Megabundle 2018 [BUNDLE] and having the same problem.
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April 06, 2018 12:40 am UTC
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Tim, thanks for the help this afternoon and the discussion. I was able to purchase the bundle tonight.
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Stephen C April 06, 2018 9:57 am UTC
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It was my pleasure. Nice to get to talk to you! Glad you were able to get the bundle, I hope you enjoy! ~ Tim
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December 08, 2017 7:40 pm UTC
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I also am having an issue with purchasing your bundles -- my 7th Printing (Alternate Cover) doesn't register with bundles.
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November 13, 2017 4:25 pm UTC
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Any chance you can combine Player's Handbook cover offers together -- if the content is the same. For example, I have the alternate cover purchased, but when I go to buy your bundles it's requiring me to buy this cover version again as if I didn't have it.
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Stephen C August 07, 2017 12:15 pm UTC
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@Bruce et al: The bottom PDF is always the newest, but some people like to keep the others for comparison, etc. The last one has a couple errata corrections. Hope this helps and enjoy! Tim
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Bruce M August 08, 2017 1:25 am UTC
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Thanks! I just got my print book from the kickstarter in the mail today!
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Bruce M August 04, 2017 4:25 pm UTC
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After the update you now have 3 PDFs listed, two of them with the same name. What is the difference between these three?
(TLG_80106_Players_Handbook.pdf)
(TLG_80107_Players_Handbook_Standard_Digital.pdf)
(TLG_80107_Players_Handbook_Standard_Digital.pdf)
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Matt M August 03, 2017 6:37 pm UTC
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What is the difference between the files TLG_80107_Players_Handbook_Digital_Standard.pdf and TLG_80107_Players_Handbook_Standard_Digital.pdf?
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Dani J August 03, 2017 6:08 am UTC
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7th printing! Yay
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Bruce M August 10, 2016 12:53 am UTC
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Isn't there a print on demand option? Also is there a GM's guide or just a players guide?
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Epi C April 19, 2021 10:04 am UTC
there is currently not a POD available on DTRPG but you can purchase a hardback copy direct from the TLG webstore. The GM's guide is know as the Castle Keeper's Guide and is available here on DTRPG

Standard Cover: https://www.trolllord.com/tlgstore/#!/Castles-&-Crusades-Players-Handbook-Standard-Cover/p/89198181/category=13376122
Alternate Cover: https://www.trolllord.com/tlgstore/#!/Castles-&-Crusades-Players-Handbook-Alternate-Cover/p/89198183/category=13376122
Castle Keepers Guide: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/88525/Castles--Crusades-Castle-Keepers-Guide?term=castle+keeper%27s+gu
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Shane W January 14, 2016 6:05 am UTC
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I have the 4th printing. Can I get the 6th printing for free?
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Epi C April 19, 2021 10:07 am UTC
PSST... here's the 7th printing and A Houseless God & Other Tales (Free of Charge
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Allen H June 18, 2015 6:06 pm UTC
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Just wanted to chime in. I purchased the 4th printing digital edition when it came out and didn't realize I could update it for free (it isn't in the updates).

I emailed the Troll Lords and they fixed me up, sent me a link for the 6th printing.

Class act.

Thank you.
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Joseph H September 10, 2014 2:06 am UTC
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I'm not sure what Brian S is talking about. I've gotten every update for this book for free, and the 6th printing is no different. Maybe he doesn't know to look under his Account -> Updates section of this web site.

Anyway, that being said, I am a disappointed in the PDF quality for the 6th printing. The 5th printing was ~40MB and the images were all crisp with no digital smearing. The 6th printing is only ~10MB and the images have a lot of digital garbage around the edges. I do hope they'll put out a higher quality update soon.

Thanks.
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Brian S September 10, 2014 4:02 am UTC
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well then they owe me an update because it's not there. Thanks for telling me.
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Stephen C September 28, 2014 5:30 pm UTC
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Brian, If you did not get your update, please let me know directly at tim@trolllord.com and I will get it right out to you. It should have automatically updated you but if it didn't, I'm happy to do it for you. Tim
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James L October 14, 2014 6:22 pm UTC
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Yeah the artwork in the current PDF is pixelated to hell. Did the Trolls even bother to look at it before uploading? Since I got the update free I don't feel completely ripped off, but those who purchase the 6th printing PDF are gonna be hurtin.
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