{{Short description|Dungeons & Dragons rule book}} {{Infobox book | name = The Castle Guide | image = DMGR2 TSR2114 The Castle Guide.jpg | caption = | author = Grant Boucher, Troy Christensen, Arthur Collins, and Nigel Findley, with Timothy B. Brown and William W. Connors | genre = Role-playing game | publisher = TSR | release_date = 1990 | media_type = | pages = 128 | isbn = }}
'''''The Castle Guide''''' is a supplemental rulebook published in 1990 for the 2nd edition of the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game.
==Contents== ''The Castle Guide'' is a rules supplement intended for the 2nd edition ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' which covers life in feudal lands, and how to build, run, siege, and defend castles.<ref name="HW"/> Reviewer Keith H. Eisenbeis stated that it "contains all types of useful and needed information about almost every aspect of castle existence from construction to destruction".<ref name=Eisen/> ''The Castle Guide'' describes three ordinary types of castles, as well as 12 special castles geared towards specific types of ''AD&D'' characters such as thieves, wizards, dwarves, and orcs.<ref name="HW"/>
==Publication history== DMGR2 ''The Castle Guide'' was written by Grant Boucher, Troy Christensen, Arthur Collins, and Nigel Findley, with Timothy B. Brown and William W. Connors, and was published by TSR in 1990 as a 128-page book.<ref name="HW">{{cite book|last=Schick |first=Lawrence|title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games|publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991|isbn=0-87975-653-5 |page=92}}</ref>
==Reception== In the July 1990 edition of ''Games International'' (Issue 16), the reviewer was very positive about this product, saying that it provided "a fairly detailed feudal medieval background [...] What a shame that ''AD&D'' is so ill-suited to such a game... Still worth getting for the background material."<ref name=gi>{{cite magazine| date=July 1990 |title=Role Games|journal=Games International| issue=16|pages=39}}</ref>
Keith Eisenbeis reviewed the manual in the June–July 1991 issue of ''White Wolf''.<ref name=Eisen>{{cite magazine |last= Eisenbeis|first= Keith H.|date= June–July 1991|title= Capsule Reviews: The Castle Guide|magazine=White Wolf|issue= 27|page= 32 |url=https://imgur.com/a/CkLsnS3}}</ref> He noted its comprehensiveness and quality, stating that "it successfully balances the reality of a historical medieval castle with all the fantasy elements of an AD&D campaign world. The Castle Guide is a must for any feudal, medieval or Arthurian type campaign".<ref name=Eisen/> He rated it overall at a 4 out of 5 possible points, qualifying it as a "very good product".<ref name=Eisen/>
==Other reviews== *''Casus Belli'' #63<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/casus-belli-063/page/n23/mode/2up | title=Casus Belli #063 | date=1991 }}</ref>
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