WIZARDS ABOUND! Thanks to your help we have hit 70k, unlocking: The Citadel: Aranowl! The Great Library and the greatest College of the Magi! Next up: $80,000 - Spell Casting as a Trade Guidelines! Rules for bringing spell casting as a trade to your table, be it for NPCs. players, arcane merchants or for the church!
Enspell your table! Rebuilt from the ground up, fully OGL-free, brand new content, refined for clarity and usage. Over 1,000 spells, 210 rune spells and much more. This expanded tome brings the power of arcane, divine, and runic magic into your hands!
WIZARDS ABOUND! Thanks to your help we have hit 80k, unlocking: Rules for bringing spell casting as a trade to your table, be it for NPCs. players, arcane merchants or for the church!
Next up: New Stretch Rewards
We will announce new stretch rewards on Monday Afternoon, the 23rd!
The Adventurers Spellbook is a Player Expansion for Castles & Crusades.
Sorcery! Arcane, Divine and Runic! A world of thaumaturgy lies before you. Join us as we bring the Adventurers Spellbook Reforged to your table! We are deep diving into this book, bringing it up to the standars of the 3 core and shipping Adventurers Backpack! We'll revise spells that are unbalanced and clean up any amibiguous language, list them for quick reference. That and more playable spellbooks, spell lists for starting casters and more! AND we are bringing the long-awaited Spell Cards to the table!
The Adventurers Spellbook
This is the second printing of our wildly popular Adventurers Spellbook, a book designed for use with all spell casters as it includes all the spells culled from a host of sources. Designed to make using spells for any caster fast and simple. Now Reforged and brought up to the latest non OGL content.
AMAZING NEW COVER ART!
ENGINEERING CRAFTING
Adtherpe the Spontaneous collected all sorts of information on the multi-verse, its natural resources and the numerous creatures that inhabit it. Within his library he stored knowledge on their locations, composition, and the valuable materials they can provide.
We previously had published Adtherpe’s Natural Materials for Castles & Crusades as a small supplement written by our own, Chuck Cumbow, and over the past few years it has continued to be received very well by the community with requests for more content.
This new, updated version of it will contain the same type of material found in the older book such as notes and recipes for using and crafting herbal mixtures, alchemical compounds, and guidance on harvesting the valuable materials needed for them.
The original book was just a sample of useful material, but Engineering Crafting will bring on a mountain of expanded rules, charts, materials, recipes etc. to bring a whole new dimension of game play at your table!
CASTLES & CRUSADES SPELL CARDS
New from TLG! These Spell Cards cover all spells for the spell casting classes found in the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook, Cleric, Druid, Wizard and Illusionist!
✨ All of this to fully enspel your table and players!
The Adventurers Spellbook Reforged with all OGL content removed. It includes all the spells from the original book, overhauled and updated (or deleted). It includes hundreds of spells from the Players Handbook, the 1st printing of the Adventurers Backpack, Players Guide to Aihrde, Amazing Adventures, Hallowed Oracle Players Guide & Elemental Spells! A mountainous collection for all the spellcasters.
You will also find a complete collection of all the Codices of Rune Spells for the Rune Mark (see Adventurers Backpack) within these pages, from the Shadow Runes to the Four Pillars. They are all here. Over 200 spells for your Rune Mark and Castles & Crusades game! It will also include the spells and spell system for the Chromatic Mage.
But More, the Spellbook deep dives into the Spell casters with:
Starting spells, random and fixed
Spell books, a host of premade spell books for beginning play, treasure, rewards
Components
Stongholds
Speicilized spell casters like the Necromancer. Not a new class, but how to put it together
✨ $5,000 || WE ARE FUNDED! The Adventurers Spellbook is scheduled to the printers summer/fall of 2026!.
✨ $10,000 || Strongholds: We’ll include spell caster strongholds. What makes up a druid’s abode? A wizard’s library? A priest’s cloister? An illusionist’s mirage? A rune mark’s scriptorium. We’ll include write up for several samples for use with your character or NPCs. This stretch reward goes to all backers PDF and Print formats, since it is an content improvement for the Adventurers Spellbook.
✨ $20,000 || Specializing Arcane Casters! Create a necromancer, conjurer, enchanter and more. We’ll group spells that define specific caster classifications and include bonus abilities. Modular design fits perfect with your arcane casters! This stretch reward goes to all backers PDF and Print formats, since it is an content improvement for the Adventurers Spellbook.
✨ $30,000 || Divine Spheres: Organizing the divine spells into spheres, tied to certain types of deities (god of war, god healing, etc.) grants the caster certain abilities as tied to the deity. This stretch reward goes to all backers PDF and Print formats, since it is an content improvement for the Adventurers Spellbook.
✨ $40,000 || The Gears of Spellcasting! Help us explore the true meaning and use of the many gears and working parts that make spellcasting works. From the druidic plants (beyond mistletoe), to sacred garbs and items, we’ll build out the caster like never before. This stretch reward goes to all backers PDF and Print formats, since it is an content improvement for the Adventurers Spellbook.
✨ $50,000 || Spell Casting Gone Wrong Tables & Rules: Everyone has rolled the critical fumble! The dreaded nat 1! Your drop your sword, trip, fall down the stairs, impale yourself on the 10 foot pole! But what happens when you spell misfires? What happens when the lightning bolt strikes your comrade? We’ll include a set of rules and guides to unleash critical failure for your spells, both in the application and resolution! This stretch reward goes to all backers PDF and Print formats, since it is an content improvement for the Adventurers Spellbook.
✨ $60,000 || Scrolls Creation & Use! Spell books abound, but far more common are the scrolls. Found in unearthed crypts, dungeons, keeps, towers, towns, and in almost any encounter. We’ll unleash the world of scrolls, making them, their cost, and lists of specialized scrolls for quick insertion in your game. This stretch reward goes to all backers PDF and Print formats, since it is an content improvement for the Adventurers Spellbook.
✨ $70,000 || New Publication - Aranowl ! The Citadel: Aranowl (R-ah-nawl) is a bastion in the world of Aihrde. It rides high upon a rocky sea stack in the Perrin Straights. There upon the heights sits the Citadel, a sprawling walled complex that serves as both a wizard’s guild and the world’s font of knowledge. Here stands the Great Library, the College of the Magi, the Marbled Hall, the Curia and more. Touched upon in the Codex of Aihrde, explored in The Marbeline Coast, we’ll explore the Citadel in whole, in its own publication, detailing the wizard’s guild, the Curators, Council, the inhabitants, the buildings, lore, and the archived magic that resides there. Unleash the power of the history of Aihrde! This stretch reward goes to as a PDF format to all backers at the $27 (ALL DIGITAL PDF ONLY) pledge level and above, and Print format for $75 (Adventurers Spellbook Combo) and above.
🔒 $80,000 || Spell Casting as a Trade Guidelines: Spell use is common. We all use it, we all need it. But what happens when you have to hire it done. We’ll expound on the rules set out in the CKG, but what’s more, we’ll design rules on hiring your own spellcaster out to NPCs! The Baron of Ludenshiem may just need to hire you to defend his gate. How much is he going to pay? You’ll have it all in Adventurers Spellbook! This stretch reward goes to all backers PDF and Print formats, since it is an content improvement for the Adventurers Spellbook.
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This Spell fueled project deserves off the charts art. With that in mind, we have brought on several new artists to help with upgrading the art, including new illustrations for spells, the cards and crafting materials etc. It is important to note that any art displayed on this project page or anywhere else is currently just conceptual art and not final.
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