Troll Lord Games (Little Rock, Ark.) announced April 12 the release of a condensed version of their wildly popular Castles & Crusades Role Playing Game in PDF form today. The PDF will be available for sale on RPGNow, DriveThruRPG, and Enworld.

Castles & Crusades Condensed is a rules light, fantasy role playing game. Its easy-to-learn attribute-based rules system allows players to choose among six archetypal character classes and five races to create their characters. Spells, equipment, fast-paced combat rules, and all essential information needed to play a game of Castles & Crusades are in this book. It also contains 20+ monsters and The Rising Knight adventure. With 113 pages, C&C Condensed retails for $12.95 and gives players everything they need to play the game.

Castles & Crusades is one of the hottest selling FRPGs on the market today. Released in 2005, it has routinely posted as one of the top 10 best selling RPGs and it is already on its secondprint run.

For more information, visit Troll Lord Games. To speak with or harangue the authors, or any one of the Troll Lords, visit the Troll Lord Games message boards! And be sure to check out the other books in the series: Castles & Crusades Players Handbook, Castles & Crusades Monsters & Treasure, Castles & Crusades Castle Zagyg, Character Reference Sheets, the adventure modules Assault on Blacktooth Ridge and Slag Heap, and more.