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This may be the best indirect advocacy for a campaign setting that I have yet read.
The fact that it's also a refutation of 14 years of me listening to people claim that there's nothing to do in Praemal outside Ptolus probably helps. The stuff with Kem, Tarsis and Dohrinthas is more or less either straight from the book or easily inferred from it.This may be the best indirect advocacy for a campaign setting that I have yet read.
The fact that it's also a refutation of 14 years of me listening to people claim that there's nothing to do in Praemal outside Ptolus probably helps. The stuff with Kem, Tarsis and Dohrinthas is more or less either straight from the book or easily inferred from it.
I suspect that this comes the sidebar of Page 44 of the Ptolus book.. (The idea that only Ptolus has adventuring locales in Praemal always seems crazy to me, although there are groups that insist it's true.)
This is how I feel about Ptolus, too. I love urban adventuring...but I don't love all the creative decisions that Monte made. Waaaay too many knightly orders. I could go on. But there's just so much material, much of it good, some of it great. Ptolus is a good value for any working DM.I don't love everything about the book and setting, but I love having an extensive reference that lets me pick out details and drop them into the game in a very consistent manner.
This is how I feel about Ptolus, too. I love urban adventuring...but I don't love all the creative decisions that Monte made. Waaaay too many knightly orders.
My characters will be going through that imminently. Ironically, I'll have to adapt the 3E version, since the 5E version won't arrive in time. (Although, since we're playing by post, it's certainly possible the new version will catch up to us.)I love the Banewarrens. One of my all time favorite adventures. But I've never played it! It will likely be the center piece of my next urban campaign...whenever that is.