Website trolllord.com Type of business Publisher | Founded 2000 | |
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Industry RPGs, magazine & other assorted media. Key people Stephen Chenault: C.E.O.
Davis Chenault: Chief Strategy Officer
Todd Grey: Chief of Distribution and Sales Products Castles & Crusades, Rings of Brass, The Crusader Magazine, Aihrde Headquarters Little Rock, Arkansas, United States | ||
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Troll Lord Games is an American publisher of role-playing games (based on fantasy and swords & sorcery themes), The Crusader magazine and other board/dice/card games.
Contents
- Dwarven tavern interviews troll lord games at gen con
- Gen con 2014 troll lord games interview
- History
- Castles Crusades
- Adventures
- The Crusader Journal
- Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds
- Lejendary Adventure
- d20
- Publications By Year
- References
They are best known for the Castles & Crusades role-playing game consisting of a Player's Handbook, Monsters & Treasures book as well as scores of other C&C adventure modules and accessories. They served as Gary Gygax's primary publisher from 2001–2008, publishing Lejendary Adventure, Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds and other book lines.
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History
TLG's first published products were a series of adventures designed for the Swords and Sorcery RPG. This RPG was developed by Davis Chenault and Mac Golden. TLG debuted these three adventures, the game system and Stephen Chenault's The After Winter's Dark campaign world at Gencon in 2000. These releases coincided with the release of d20 Dungeons and Dragons. Within a very short while TLG republished the books under the d20 license. At about this time they signed Gary Gygax and committed to the Gygaxian Fantasy World series. The series was launched with The Canting Crew, by Gary Gygax, in 2001.
Shortly thereafter TLG published the Codex of Erde (later Aihrde), a fantasy world campaign setting and sourcebook for RPGs. It saw release in 2001 and was written by Stephen Chenault and Mac Golden with contributions by Davis Chenault and Gary Gygax.
Stephen Chenault recounts the origins of the Codex of Erde and how they were enmeshed with the founding of TLG as a company, in The Crusader Magazine.
In this book, Gary Gygax wrote an introductory adventure, Search for a Lost City. It was a prelude to another TLG RPG book also released in 2001, called The Lost City of Gaxmoor, written by Ernie Gygax and Luke Gygax.
TLG also produced and published a string of RPG adventure modules taking place in the fantasy campaign world of Erde. These include:
Another module written for the world of Erde was called Dark Druids written by Robert J. Kuntz, RPG author and ex-employee of TSR, Inc. It was released in 2002.
Also, in 2002 Gary Gygax and TLG continued to work together to produce the Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds series of RPG “world builder” books.
In 2005 TLG took over the publishing of Gary Gygax’s Lejendary Adventure products and produced a boxed set with a scaled down version of the rules and monsters called Essentials. Following this, came the release of Living the Legend, a LA module written by Gygax.
2008 saw a new hard cover release and reprinting of the Greyhawk Adventures book Saga of Old City, a Gord the Rogue novel by Gary Gygax.
Castles & Crusades
The Castles & Crusades RPG Collector’s Box Set was produced in 2004. It contained a Players Handbook, a Monsters & Treasure booklet and an introductory adventure booklet; all were digest size like the original Dungeons and Dragons boxed set.
The year 2005 proved to be a busy and productive year for TLG:
Gary Gygax continued to work on the next Castle Zagyg volume (at that time Volume II) into 2006 and 2007.
At Gen Con 40 in 2007, Gary Gygax was the Guest of Honor at the TLG booth. It would be his last Gen Con. The long-awaited Castle Zagyg: The Upper Works made its debut at the TLG booth the following year, 2008.
In 2007 TLG published an update of the fantasy campaign World of Erde, changing the name to Aihrde and releasing a 48-page gazetteer called After Winter’s Dark which established Aihrde as the official Castles & Crusades adventure setting.
A collection of alternate rules and guidelines for modifying the system, the Castle Keepers Guide, was released in February, 2011
Castles & Crusades
Adventures
The Crusader Journal
Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds
Lejendary Adventure
d20
Publications By Year
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011