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I've been running a Ptolus campaign since 2006. Here's what I've done with the setting.
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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 7944667" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>The two groups warily reunited in Freeport, helped solve the city's succession crisis, and sailed off to Dohrinthas, one of the other Sea Kingdoms and the seat of power for one of the three claimants to the Lion-Guarded Throne. (And, for whatever it's worth, the only one with even a distant blood claim to being emperor or empress.)</p><p></p><p>In our game, one of the possible plot points in the Big Book has happened -- it actually happened in the Tenth campaign, which runs in parallel -- and the Emperor of the Church in Ptolus has explicitly declared himself emperor of the Tarsisian Empire.</p><p></p><p>In response, Empress Addares XXXIV in Dohrinthas attempts to rally the more conservative elements of the Church of Lothian, who weren't fond of Holy Emperor Rehoboth Ylestos, who they view as too "liberal," in that he doesn't declare all other gods but Lothian to be demons and doesn't insist that arcane magic users be put to death.</p><p></p><p>So, guess what our group with its two wizards and a spell-casting bard are sailing into? The Golden Inquisition, which takes its name from Dohrinthas' nickname of "the Golden City," hasn't gotten around to burning mages or even books yet, but they're getting warmed up, so to speak. The city is full of nervous residents. There isn't a warm welcome for a bunch of Prustans -- presumed to be loyal to Segaci Fellisti, who sits on the Lion-Guarded Throne in Tarsis -- including spellcasters.</p><p></p><p>The player characters figure out pretty quickly that they should think about getting out of town, especially after they try to pop in on the local wizards academy, Autumnway, and find that the streets no longer seem to ever actually reach the school and the would-be visitors are magically told to go away and not stir up trouble.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, Sir Emmerson Grant is a known quantity in Dohrinthas, and it's not long before he's picked up for questioning for -- checking my notes -- killing a resident of Dohrinthas and a loyal subject of Addares XXXIV. The fact that she was a murderer and a would-be assassin isn't an issue, since she was acting under orders from her empress.</p><p></p><p>The group is able to temporarily extract Emmerson from the palace where he's questioned before he's formally arrested and then tortured and executed. They hop a barge heading north and then sign on as caravan guards for a caravan heading to, you guessed it, Ptolus.</p><p></p><p>The group is currently dealing with my very shabby Agatha Christie murder mystery knock-off on the road, but will be arriving in Ptolus soon, at very long last. (Play by post campaigns are <em>slow</em>.)</p><p></p><p><em>(If you like this recap, and would like to help me get my Ptolus character -- Baeril Underhill, gnome illusionist-turned-detective -- illustrated in the new 5E and Cypher editions, click <a href="https://gleam.io/b0PST-jJSfMdCUSb" target="_blank">here</a> and complete at least one of the promotional activities.)</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 7944667, member: 11760"] The two groups warily reunited in Freeport, helped solve the city's succession crisis, and sailed off to Dohrinthas, one of the other Sea Kingdoms and the seat of power for one of the three claimants to the Lion-Guarded Throne. (And, for whatever it's worth, the only one with even a distant blood claim to being emperor or empress.) In our game, one of the possible plot points in the Big Book has happened -- it actually happened in the Tenth campaign, which runs in parallel -- and the Emperor of the Church in Ptolus has explicitly declared himself emperor of the Tarsisian Empire. In response, Empress Addares XXXIV in Dohrinthas attempts to rally the more conservative elements of the Church of Lothian, who weren't fond of Holy Emperor Rehoboth Ylestos, who they view as too "liberal," in that he doesn't declare all other gods but Lothian to be demons and doesn't insist that arcane magic users be put to death. So, guess what our group with its two wizards and a spell-casting bard are sailing into? The Golden Inquisition, which takes its name from Dohrinthas' nickname of "the Golden City," hasn't gotten around to burning mages or even books yet, but they're getting warmed up, so to speak. The city is full of nervous residents. There isn't a warm welcome for a bunch of Prustans -- presumed to be loyal to Segaci Fellisti, who sits on the Lion-Guarded Throne in Tarsis -- including spellcasters. The player characters figure out pretty quickly that they should think about getting out of town, especially after they try to pop in on the local wizards academy, Autumnway, and find that the streets no longer seem to ever actually reach the school and the would-be visitors are magically told to go away and not stir up trouble. Unfortunately, Sir Emmerson Grant is a known quantity in Dohrinthas, and it's not long before he's picked up for questioning for -- checking my notes -- killing a resident of Dohrinthas and a loyal subject of Addares XXXIV. The fact that she was a murderer and a would-be assassin isn't an issue, since she was acting under orders from her empress. The group is able to temporarily extract Emmerson from the palace where he's questioned before he's formally arrested and then tortured and executed. They hop a barge heading north and then sign on as caravan guards for a caravan heading to, you guessed it, Ptolus. The group is currently dealing with my very shabby Agatha Christie murder mystery knock-off on the road, but will be arriving in Ptolus soon, at very long last. (Play by post campaigns are [I]slow[/I].) [I](If you like this recap, and would like to help me get my Ptolus character -- Baeril Underhill, gnome illusionist-turned-detective -- illustrated in the new 5E and Cypher editions, click [URL='https://gleam.io/b0PST-jJSfMdCUSb']here[/URL] and complete at least one of the promotional activities.)[/I] [/QUOTE]
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