We hope all is well and that you've managed to stay warm this week! We have an Alpha Preview for Volume 1, The Citadel ready! As a thank you for your patience we are sending this out to all backers no matter if your pledge contained the PDF version or not so that you all can see some of the progress and how these books are shaping up. Grab your copy here:
As always, if you notice any errata that you would like to bring to our attention, please email us the page number and description of the error at [email protected] with the word CZ1 ERRATA in the subject line. We are currently only accepting submissions of errata: misspellings, layout errors, grammatical mistakes, etc.
Important Note: Please do not feed The Citadel, or any other preview copies of our Gygax properties, into AI chat bots or other large language models, even to help us locate and correct errata. We appreciate the intent to help us, but the rights to these properties were very carefully negotiated over many months in court and there are rules in place for us concerning how we are allowed to distribute them. Feeding this content directly into AI LLMs may impact our ability to continue to produce these volumes. Our victory in court was hard-fought, and we care far too much about the legacy of these books to jeopardize our future ability to produce them. Please help us out by refraining from feeding these volumes, in part or in their entirety, into AI programs!
In the meantime, if you're excited for your upcoming Castle Zagyg campaign for Castles & Crusades, consider checking out our current crowdfunding campaign for the Adventurers Spellbook Reforged. This spellcasting resource contains all of the updated, rebalanced spells ever published for Castles & Crusades, along with an overwhelming host of new content that will fit right in with the zany hijinks and terrifying depths of Castle Zagyg.
A quick update on Gary Gygax's Castle Zagyg! Svetlana is sending over finalized art for Yggsburgh and for the Village of Garham. I've attached the latter here and her latest rendition of the Area Map of the East Mark. It is shaping up into a beautiful piece of art.
ALSO, the cover for Dungeons, volume 3, or rather the sketch for volume 3 has arrived and been approved and is well underway.
As a quick note, we should have level 2 ready by week's end and level 3 and 4 will be not long after that.
Lastly I'm going to coax a copy of Volume 1 out of peter soon, he is holding off as he wants to incorporate map images from Svetlana into the book. But very soon you'll see where we are.
Art show begins now:
Gary would be thrilled! Of that I am sure.
If you have not, be sure to sign up for the coming Castle Zagyg Part 2 of this that will launch as part 1 is at the printers!
We hope you all had a safe and happy holiday season! We've been hard at work on Castle Zagyg and have some new art pieces to show for it. First, however, a status update on our progress with these first three volumes:
Vol 1 The Citadel: Layout is nearly complete! We are just missing a few final art pieces and maps.
Vol 2 The Ruins: Editing should be done this week!
Vol 3 The Cellars: Writing is well underway here; we're working on level 4 of the dungeon and are in the process of deciphering the maps for level 5.
We are planning to begin fulfillment on this campaign in April; that's also when our second and final crowdfunding effort to restore Castle Zagyg to its full might will kick off. Sign up for updates here!
We all at TLG are so thrilled to announce that the second installment of our multi-campaign Castle Zagyg crowdfunding effort will launch in April 2026 on BackerKit as part of Mega Dungeon Month!
We are so thrilled to join Goodman Games, Monte Cook Games, Kobold Press, Ghostfire Gaming, Loke Battle Mats, Rowan, Rook and Decard, 9th Level Games, and many other independent TTRPG creators in this epic, cross-collaborative funding event. Backers who support multiple projects receive special cross-project stretch goals!
Troll Lord Games is bringing to life Volumes 4 and 5 of Gary Gygax’s Castle Zagyg. 16 dungeon levels now join the content of our first three volumes: the first dungeon level, castle precincts and Yggsburgh. Careful not to lose your mind in the winding, danger-filled corridors of the Mad Mage!
Taken from Gary’s original notes and maps, here are some of the dungeon levels you'll find in these two volumes:
Deep Cellars Dungeons The Arcane Workshops Eternity Galleries Menagerie Grotesque The Lairs Abominable Labyrinth of Perils Infinite Chambers
Join Zagyg in this mad escapade of dungeon delving in April '26: Mega Dungeon Month!
We hope you're all having a great holiday season! We just received the finalized cover art for Book 2 of Castle Zagyg: The Ruins from Jason Walton. Check it out:
Pay the goblins no mind. The Ruins are totally safe and full of treasure. You should go there with all your friends. A goblin definitely did not write this.
