Codex Monstorum, a book of monsters by Troll Lord Games (that's us!) is published for use with our games, Castles & Crusades (the very game Gary Gygax had a hand in creating; the game that created the entire OSR movement, and the game whose attribute check system was the basis for 5e's driving mechanic! Do you want to know more?) and Amazing Adventures both power by SIEGE.

Read on, 5e gamers; Codex Monstorum can easily be used in tandem with any of the world's most popular roleplaying game. Below you'll find some examples of the monsters we've included, and how they can fit into your 5e game. Though, if you're interested in giving a new old-school system a try, C&C and Amazing Adventures are waiting.

Amazing Adventures is the next level of SIEGE Engine role playing. Using the same celebrated rules as Castles & Crusades, this multi-genre role playing game gives you a universal rulebook to capture any style of fantasy you want, with simple, attribute-check-based mechanics that are built for lightning-fast play that’s also worlds of fun. Whether you’re looking to portray Musketeers and pirates in the 16th century, fearful colonists dealing with the dark unknown in the black forests of the New World, modern demon hunters fighting horrors of the Deeper Dark in the back alleys of cities, or explorers on the new frontier of deep space in the far-flung future, Amazing Adventures has what you need.

The Codex Monstorum is the official bestiary for the Amazing Adventures TTRPG. In this volume you will find a catalogue of over 140 brand-new monsters and all of the terrors you need to run a game of urban fantasy, pulp adventure, stark horror, and more!

This book is your foundation for running the world's greatest gun-toting, sword-wielding, starfighter-flying, gadget-making, super-powered, science, sorcery, horror, multi-genre TTRPG!  Within the Players Handbook you'll find character classes, traits, backgrounds, intuitive powers, gadgets, fate points, modern firearms, vehicles, and so much more.

This book is the Game Master's (or rather, Chronicle Keeper's) companion for running Amazing Adventures. Inside you'll find expanded character options, intuitive rules for firearm and vehicle combat, a wealth of new options for hand-to-hand pummeling, and all the tips and tricks you'll need to make rulings on the fly. Amazing Adventures uses the SIEGE Engine, same as Castles & Crusades, so these rules can be implemented into your C&C campaign as well, should you wish to expand your high fantasy game into genres and worlds beyond!

Build your powers from the ground up, whether it's for your arcanist, gadgeteer, or even superhero gaming! This, the latest sourcebook for the Amazing Adventures line, provides a brand-new, effects-based powers system. These are all 100% compatible with all systems and subsystems that have come before, and allows you to construct the exact abilities you want for your character. 

At the 2003 GAMA trade show Steve and Todd were enjoying dinner when John Nephew of Atlas Games stopped by to say hello. John asked Steve what TLG's plans were for the coming bust. Steve, having little business experience, indicated they had no plan and were only vaguely aware of a saturated market. John advised strongly that TLG do something to cushion itself when the d20 market bubble burst. Returning to their offices they began talking about possible expansions away from d20, considering a journal, fiction, expanded Gygax line, and creating their own game. Mac Golden and Davis Chenault both joined the conversation. The idea of creating a RPG for TLG circulated.

Simultaneously Gary Gygax inquired how TLG would put Castle Zagyg, his long standing famous mega dungeon, out as he felt it needed a different game system than d20. Gary had no interest in creating his own and when he was told that the idea of TLG creating its own RPG, he encouraged it, so long as it would have the spirit of AD&D. All this fed into Steve's desire to move away from d20 as an RPG and into something easier to play. By Summer of 2003 Mac and Davis offered to create this new system. Steve's only insistence is that it "be as easy to run as AD&D", a game he had played since its release in the 1970s. Late in 2003 work began on the game that would eventually become Castles & Crusades. It was first released at Gencon in 2004 with the White Box Set.

As the company struggled to make ends meet, work continued on Castles & Crusades. Throughout 2003 and into 2004 the game took shape. Mac and Davis worked on it, late in the evenings on their respective front porches, as they lived across from each on Brown St. in Little Rock. With Gencon ’04 approaching, the company needed something to showcase, and so a small introductory set was put together. It was decided to make a small box set that emulated the original D&D release in 1974. One thousand copies were ordered. Each would come with three books, zocchi dice, and a pencil. A box manufacturer missed their deadline and failed to create the boxes with labels on them. They did however supply 100 blank, white boxes, that Steve, Mark, and Todd Gray sat and laboriously labeled with stickers. A Guide & Rules System for Fantasy Role Playing was released at the show that year. Later the full print run was released and put up for sale, and the first 300, called the Spartan 300, were signed and numbered by Steve, Mac, Davis, and Peter Bradley.

The completed Castles & Crusades Players Handbook released on the TLG store in December of 2004. It was a black and white 128-page book that contained all the rules for the game. The initial response to C&C was strong as role-playing game enthusiasts had little new material out there. C&C was styled as an immersive role-playing game with a light focus on mechanics, its SIEGE Engine exemplified this.

Gary Gygax first for Castle Zagyg followed in 2005, Castle Zagyg Yggsburgh! He styled, as many have since, that C&C was the natural progression that Dungeons & Dragons should have taken.

 

👾 $5,000 || WE ARE FUNDED! The Amazing Adventures Codex Monstorum is unlocked!
 

👾 $20,000 || Brotherhood of William Saint John: This must-have supplement offers secret societies, organizations, mysterious places, and statistics for the Brotherhood, their enemies, and their allies throughout the centuries. It also draws back the curtain on the mysterious link between Earth and Aihrde, its sister planet from millions of years ago! This sourcebook is a meta-setting that provides a thru-line for Amazing Adventures, providing options that can enhance almost any genre or setting of play you like.

👾 $30,000 || Save the Queen! The Queen of France is missing and her Musketeer guards all slain! As agents of the crown, a special force called upon only in the most dire of circumstances, it falls upon you to rescue her and discover the nefarious villains behind this abduction. If you fail, the civil war that tears the Holy Roman Empire apart could explode to new heights. An adventure module for 4-6 characters of 4th-6th level. Swashbuckling heroism in the Age of Reason!

👾 $40,000 || Star Siege! StarSIEGE is a sourcebook for the Amazing Adventures role playing game, and is equally compatible with Castles & Crusades and other SIEGE Engine games. Within its pages you will find: alien races, rules for computer hacking and cyberpunk, optional skill packages, and the setting Solar Burn!

🔒 $50,000 || Waffles for Breakfast: Steve Chenault unleashes the third in a series of fast-paced, hard hitting modern post-apocolyptic adventure modules! This time its waffles or lead, you choose! New classes for the Amazing Adventure Comrades RPG, along with wonderful menu options!

Here are the coverse for the first two (no need to play in a series): Free Fire Zone and Two Five Zero

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