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New player joined our group 4 weeks ago. He agreed to play good or neutral - aligned character then. Because rest of the PCs is good and noble. His PC killed innocent sleeping person last game session, and done it in such stupid way that rest of the PCs found the murderer in one round (speak...

XXI. The Sewers „There is always a bigger fish” is a simple truth about the sewers. If you have a map of them, you can always find that below the Oldtown there’s abandoned, sealed, and used by various scum old sewage system. You explored it already, you can always find a diary of sewers’...

I tired of making any single NPC (with DMG2 style statblocks) one hour. I'm lookin for character generator software containing options below: 1) DMG2 style statblocks 2) Using game rules from SRD and from WotC books untill 2006 with a hope of upgrade (such as Book of Nine Swords) What's your...

XIX. What’s Down There? First, Monte gives us overall description of all locations that lie below Ptolus and explanation „why” they are there. On the cross section (side view) of Ptolus one can find nearly 50 various dungeons. Next, there are rules for „Pits of Insanity” or a goo that shines...

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I like this idea and I'll be waiting for more details in future articles.

Ptolus is deadly sometimes, but what you have expected from Monte? : he knows how to use D&D system) eg. enemy for PCs on level 3: hp 60, +9 melee (2d8+10, axe) and +8 (1d8+3, bite) plus smite good plus bull's strength and bear's endurance at will; SR14; DR 5/magic, cleave, power attack. It's...

Whizbang Dustyboots: I sent a link to this thread to The Forge.

As someone see, I write Ptolus review here at EnWorld from some time, and I skipped (skip?) the whole Necropolis chapter, because I don't like very much dungeon crawl adventures. But then I found above mentioned sketchbook containing pictures I like so much, I' start again a reading of...

XV. Rivergate District Just another small mundane ward of the town. I like Well of The Shadow Eyes classical idea of secret door in the well, and its inhabitant, who can be named third criminal guildmaster in Ptolus, or just silent partner of one of them. Anyway, its the NPC with interesting...

Does anybody made statblocks for the NPCs from Saltmarsh described in "Dungeon Master's Guide II" ???

I converted my shadowcaster wizard noctuamncer according to this new rules. I find the class similiar in power to the sorcerer now, because his mysteries choice without need of path complete is versatile. *** I have a question about mystery BOLSTER. It gives now (I'm CL10) 50 additional hp...

Mr. Baur is a guy behind Assassin Mountain (Al-Qadim). It was great, great module imho. It was in 1993. But I don't like him for what he done with BIRTHRIGHT, I mean: Warlock of the Stonecrowns & Sword of Roele adventures. He's dungeon crawls designer - nothing interesting for me. So, his...

XI. Necropolis I will cover this district later (if at all) because this is mainly three level dungeon full of undeads and demons. I saw there interesting things such as druid, house-crypt of crazy graveyard denizen, and vampires-beggars, but… XII. Nobles’ Quarter The flavor: You know, there...

Because "Ptolus" (700 pages, 120$) is approximately three times longer than big (300 pages, 40$... but Amazon) WotC book (such as DMG2 or ToM), because of smaller font used. I handle with WotC rulebook like a handbook not a book, I use marker on the text, I write my notes on margins. My heart...

IX. Guildsman District The flavor of the city ward: countless workshops, manufactories and watermills of all guilds imaginable, countless warehouses, countless granaries and livestock pens. Everyone on the street has a badge of some guild. Imho interesting locations (among many others): #...

Make ranged weapon useless by wind wall spell.

VII. City by the Spire This chapter contains informations that applies to every district of Ptolus. A little demographics, a little heraldry, stats of Commisar of the city. The commisar is emperor’s governor of empire’s province. There is a few words about government: a inner and outer...

VI. Organizations In the case of Forgotten Realms campset organizations are most inspiring and easy to steal and place in other setting part of the books. The same I can say about this chapter. There are ten major noble houses in Ptolus; I mean aristocraticy, you can meet countless minor...

IV. Cosmology and Religion This chapter is hard to review without spoilers… so forgive me… if I have a choice between a review which spoils the game of the readers, or review a little hard to understand, I choose the second. So, Ptolus world was created by now-forgotten god for the purpose...