Crowns 2nd Edition

Devlog

• 9/28/2025 - Title Cards Released
  September 28, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Title Cards have been Released! The Crowns 2e Title Cards have been released to the masses with a free black-and-white option as well as an in-color premium version . In the zip file you’ll find: Fu... Continue reading

  
• 9/23/25 - The Full Release
  September 23, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Crowns 2e, #Indie, #Jam, #Adventure, #Art, #Content, #D&D, #DnD, #OSR

  The PDF is Complete There are no more rounds of editing, rebalancing, and fixing things, this is the final version of the PDF! This is the version that will be going into limited edition offset printi... Continue reading

  
• 9/1/2025 - Full Art PDF and Itch Jam
  September 01, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Jam, #Autumn, #Monsters, #Monster Manual, #PDF, #Backerkit, #Compatibility

  Full Art PDF Released That’s right ladies and gents, you can now download the full-art version of the Crowns 2e PDF and Quickstart Guide on itch.io ! There will be one or two more updates to the PDF... Continue reading

  
• 8/29/2025 - What is Crowns 2e About?
  August 29, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Postmortem, #Dungeoncrawler, #OSR, #RPG, #TTRPG, #What went wrong, #Campaign

  What is Crowns 2e About? As strange as it sounds, it took me a really long time to figure out what this game was about, and I’m happy to say I figured it out before it was released to print . Origin... Continue reading

  
• 5/30/2025 - Complete Rules Uploaded
  May 30, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  This is a quick update: My internet is out, so I had to upload this to a thumbdrive and upload it at my family’s house. Full update going into all the new features in-depth to come. This is the comp... Continue reading
• 5/21/2025 - Onto the Primevals
  May 21, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #Crowns 2e, #Crowns, #Strongholds, #RPG, #TTRPG, #Tabletop, #Indie

  923% Funded! Our total funding at time of writing is $4,615! That means we’re even closer to our next stretch goal: developing web tools to speed up character creation, region generation, and more!... Continue reading

  
• 5/19/2025 - Backerkit Success and Outsiders
  May 20, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #Abberations, #Mind Flayer, #Aboleth, #Gibbering Mouther, #Dimensional Shambler, #Invisible Stalker

  809% Funded! Our total funding at time of writing is $4,045, which means the Backerkit is fully funded, our first stretch goal is reached, and we are nearing our second! That means we’ll be working... Continue reading

  
• 5/14/2025 - Backerkit Launch, Undead, and Roleplaying
  May 14, 2025 by Ward Against Evil#OSR, #Crowdfunding, #Backerkit, #Roelplay, #Dungeon, #Kickstarter, #Undead

  The Backerkit Campaign is LIVE Pledge now at the link below!!! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/ward-against-evil/crowns-2e-an-osr-rpg-full-of-peril-and-bloody-dismemberment The tiers are: Dark Ar... Continue reading

  
• 5/12/2025 - And Then There Were Monsters...
  May 12, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Backerkit Delay For those following the Backerkit, it has been delayed to Wednesday . It’s my first time using the new service, so I’m learning on the fly, and may have not noticed to send the pro... Continue reading

  
• 5/9/2025 - Backerkit, Spells, and Stagger!
  May 09, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #Backerkit, #Crowdfunding, #Combat, #Spells, #Kickstarter

  Crowns 2e on Backerkit! Crowns 2e is coming to Backerkit, launching on this upcoming Monday, May 12th!!! It’s going to be a lot smaller than the Kickstarter attempt, with fewer stretch goals and a m... Continue reading

  
• 3/28/2025 - Regions and Dungeons
  March 28, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #Potions, #RPG, #Crowns, #Treasure, #Gemstones, #Tables, #Art

  Region and Dungeon Generators This week has been focused on getting the Regions and Dungeons generators up and running and I’m happy to say they are complete! They’re inspired by the one’s I mad... Continue reading

  
• 3/21/2025 - Everything is Better Now
  March 21, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Damage and Attacks Rework A running problem with the design of Crowns 2e has been trying to get rid of the Null Result on an attack roll (i.e. every time you attack something should happen, good or ba... Continue reading

  
• 3/10/2025 - More Spells and Reducing Bloat
  March 10, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #RPG

  More Spells There are four more spells available for everyone, not just those with full rules! Once they’re all laid out I plan on giving the Quickstart access to all the spells because spells are c... Continue reading

  
• 2/28/2025 - Launch Day!
  February 28, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #DnD, #D&D, #Compatibility, #Kickstarter, #TTRPG, #RPG

  The World After the Kickstarter All things happens for a reason. The Kickstarter failed but that’s okay! What we have of the game so far is in the PDF attached to this game, work will continue to ge... Continue reading

  
• 2/24/2025 - Small Items and Big Monsters
  February 24, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #RPG, #TTRPG, #D&D, #DnD

  Changes to How Things Play Here’s the quick and dirty of it: Great weapons have had their stunt changed to Stance Clarifications on where to put Ammo and Armor in your inventory Implemented the Smal... Continue reading

  
• 2/17/2025 - Spells and Spears
  February 17, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #RPG

  Spells with Inversions Instead of just the first four spells, we have two sets of spells in the Quickstart Rules now: Charm and Pariah, and Dispel Armor and Mage Armor. I’m leaning more and more tow... Continue reading

  
• 2/14/2025 - Beast-Kin!
  February 14, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #Adventure, #Bestiary, #Combat, #Community, #Monster Manual, #OSR, #RPG, #Monsters, #Compatibility, #Compatible, #Kickstarter

  Introducing New Monsters Beast-Kin are the “humanoids” of the Crowns universe . I always felt that the word “humanoid” felt too sci-fi, I don’t think medieval/renaissance people would have u... Continue reading

  
• 2/10/2025 - Combat and Monsters
  February 10, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #Combat, #RPG, #Monster Manual, #Bestiary, #Monsters, #Compatibility, #Compatible

  Changes to the Combat System After some recent playtesting, I noticed three things: When the combat works, it works well, and you get some truly epic fights When the combat doesn’t work, it is borin... Continue reading

  
• 2/5/2025 - Quickstart Update
  February 06, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #RPG, #Community, #Campaign, #Kickstarter, #Domain, #Adventure Site, #Dungeon, #Adventure

  NEW ADVENTURE The previous adventure felt like a rush job so I sat down and rewrote it as a trifold adventure site. It’s the same base, but with a totally different plot, better layout, and a more i... Continue reading

  
• 2/3/2025 - Kickstarter is Live!
  February 03, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  #OSR, #RPG, #Kickstarter, #Live, #Community, #Campaign, #Crown & Skull

  THE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE THIS IS NOT A DRILL Thank you for everyone you followed the Kickstarter and/or Crowns 2e on itch.io! Now is your chance to back it and get access to the full PDF (which will be... Continue reading

  
• 1/23/2025 - Added Character Sheet
  January 23, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  Quick Update Added the Character Sheets to the Quickstart Rules... Continue reading
• 1/21/2025 - Quickstart Rules Go Live!
  January 21, 2025 by Ward Against Evil

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  On this day in history… This page went live with the free Quickstart Rules... Continue reading