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Castles & Crusades is a role-playing game published by Troll Lord Games in 2004. It was conceived as a reimagining of Basic and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons using streamlined mechanics from third edition Dungeons and Dragons. The game uses many of the d20 System mechanics, but eliminates skills and feats and expands the number of character classes to 13. Another feature is the reversion of some rules to the original versions seen in Basic or first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.

The most innovative new mechanic in Castles & Crusades is the Prime mechanic, whereby characters designate some of their attributes as Prime. Prime attributes use a difficulty class of 12, while non-Prime attributes use a difficulty class of 18. A difficulty class is the amount over which a character must roll his d20 to succeed, after the base difficulty class has been modified by whatever conditions pertain. In general, this is viewed to be a simple and elegant system, but the use of different difficulty classes instead of modifiers makes it harder to adjudicate opposed rolls. A slightly more intuitive way use of this mechanic is to grant a +6 bonus to the character's roll when using a prime attribute.

Three products have been produced for Castles & Crusades: an introductory boxed set, the Players Handbook, and Monsters & Treasure, a list of creatures and magic items for the game. Still "on the anvil" are the Castlekeeper's Guide, an aide to adjudicating the game with new optional rules; and Castle Zagyg, a huge multi-part module written by Gary Gygax. Also, small press publisher has announced that they intend to publish an adventure module for the Castles & Crusades game. The name of the game derives from The Castles and Crusades Society, founded in the pre-Dungeons & Dragons era, by Gary Gygax. The title is an homage to the roleplaying industry's birth.

Many people find converting between classic D&D, AD&D, Hackmaster, and C&C trivial. Therefore, C&C can leverage modules written for those games, and fans of those games might be interested in C&C products even if they don't play C&C itself.

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