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Expedition to the Village of Homlet (Subsuming Tharzidun and ToEE)

When I saw the news announcement on the front page, I had to make sure that my calendar didn't show April 1st. Ptolus arrived this morning, and I'm thrilled. It needs no further support. It stands alone. For Monte, and for Sue, I wish only the best. I look forward to the last...

I got my copy this morning. I woke up to the dogs barking at FedEx. I'll start a new thread when I've read more.

I went through and copied and pasted the Delver's Guild updates thus far into a Word doc. Before I began reformatting to take out excess space, it came to 120 pages! That's some cool bonus feature.

I've always been intrigued, but never have played a pbp game.

I have never played a PC with a home base or who was a member of a group with a home base. In the game I run, though, one PC took over a town and his (fellow PC) henchman PC now operates a ranch in the same town. It's not so much a home base as semi-retirement. I tend to keep my players'...

Another in-game explanation, for this and other spells that seem like they might be higher- or lower-level thaumaturgy than their level indicates, is to simply say that certain outer-planar powers-that-be, for reasons unknown, either sponsor the casting of certain spells more easily than should...

Down to single digits now! I think it's time for me to go back and reread my players' guides and the Ptolus PDFs again. As soon as I get a job, I'm buying Deadwood, season 1, ST:tNG seasons 6 & 7, Heroes of Horror, Monster Manual IV, The Arcana Evolved Spell Treasury, and all things Ptolus...

That would be cool.

Awesome. Thanks, Ari.

anyone else want to chime in?

A question regarding Tome of Magic, specifically the shadow magic section: The Initiate (6th) mystery "unveil" negates, among other things, the effects of the "shadow between" mystery. Problem is, I can't find the "shadow between" mystery. Was it renamed, omitted, or something else?

14 days remain I feel eager now.

In this thread, there is some discussion of the Shadowcaster - whether the class is underpowered relative to the mean. I seem to remember that when Tome of Magic came out, folks expressed dismay at the Truenamer. Why so? What's wrong with the truenamer? Can it be fixed, as perhaps the...

I purposely avoided the "other choice."

The DMG guidelines for item creation indicate that the DM should run every new item through the "reasonable man" test. A ring of improved invisibility, according to the formulae in the DMG, is too good. Other stuff is not good enough. To encourage players to play spellcasting characters, I...

please look at the poll I just put up

Simple enough question: For those planning on running Ptolus, how many of you expect to use Dungeons & Dragons rules, as per The Player's Handbook, as the setting assumes Arcana Evolved rules, as detailed in Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved a hybridization of the two ?

At least two exist in my campaign: One impossibly powerful archmage who dealt with the PCs at low levels (this is my first campaign and my first NPC), but who is the mostly aloof mentor of one high-level PC now. The other is a former PC of mine who disappeared for a while and returned with a...

So... A better X than X is Y: Evoker, Warmage Enchanter, Thrallherd Abjurer, Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil Illusionist, ? Necromancer, (Pale Master/True Necromancer/Death Master/Cleric?) Diviner, ? Now, wait - which ones am I missing? Oh yes, conjurer, ? I know that there are more than...