2007-03-19 Ptolus

Ptolus: City By The Spire by Monte Cook arrived today. Imp’s Shop has done an outstanding job in getting the books to me with free shipping & handling. It’s not yet available on amazon.de; there’s a 2nd hand copy available from Amazon Marketplace @ €183,52 (instead of the €120,00 I paid). And guess what. The book’s from the UK. Amazing. Perhaps I should get into the resale market. 😄

Ptolus: City By The Spire by Monte Cook

The book looks impressive, and it’s heavy. They should classify it as a weapon.

You can also buy it as a 800 page PDF. Deadly!

I also bought a printed copy of the Player’s Guide, because I prefer reading stuff on paper, and because printing things myself results in bad production values (black and white, no glossy paper, time wasted printing, time wasted trying to print two-sided, and so on).

I also received The Vault of Larin Karr by W.D.B. Kenower from Necromancer Games. Cool. This product might actually see some use before we’re getting to Ptolus, as I have in mind to connect it with my current CrucibleOfFreya campaign, including the Tomb of Abysthor by Clark Peterson and Bill Webb. We’ll see.

The Vault of Larin Karr by W.D.B. Kenower

Necromancer Games

CrucibleOfFreya

Tomb of Abysthor by Clark Peterson and Bill Webb

Perhaps I should move my Sunday group to Ptolus, and let my Wednesday group play the dungeon crawls? They like combat. (Remember my simple RPG classification scheme: Rank combat, riddles, and interaction according to preference.) And I found a page on the web describing Tomb of Abysthor as follows:

The adventure has several components: riddles, combat, mystery, combat, intrigue, and, of course, combat. ¹

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Hehehehe. 😄

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