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A new role playing game by someone named Monte Cook?

Well for all of you neo-phytes who do not know who Monte Cook is, you can just click the above link and find out! For everyone else, let’s just continue shall we.

Monte has just brought out a new role playing game. But this isn’t just any old role playing game, and no, it’s not just more of the same old stuff. The name of the game is called Ptolus.

First, let’s start with pronunciation….

Ptolus is “TAW-luss,” although “TOL-us” seems to be a popular alternate.

Okay, now that we have taken care of that, why am I talking about this game you ask? Well, actually this game was being talked about several months back at the 2006 Gencon event held in Indianapolis, Indiana. And why were they talking about this new role playing game?

First, Ptolus is an all inclusive pkg. It costs $120.00. It comes with everything! Okay, what do I mean by everything……

Ptolus is a large book with 672 pages and all in color. The book includes the following…..

( taken from the FAQ from Ptolus )
1. A 672-page hardcover, full-color book that includes:

• A textured, embossed cover by Chesley-Award-winning artist Todd Lockwood.
• Three bound-in fabric bookmarks and four perforated cardstock bookmarks to facilitate use in play.
• An entire city described in loving detail, including descriptions of the dungeons beneath the city and within and atop the Spire.
• Extensive advice about running an urban fantasy campaign.
• More than enough adventure material to run an entire campaign.
• More than 50 pages of maps by cartographer Ed Bourelle.
• More than 350 illustrations by artists like Jason Engle, The Forge Studios (Maciej Zagórski and Pawel Dobosz), Michael Komarck, Eric Lofgren, Howard Lyon, and Michael Phillippi.
  

2. A double sided, full-color poster map of the city and the Spire by Ed Bourelle.

3. A package of 16 black-and-white and 8 full-color loose sheets to be used as player aids, DM aids, and adventure handouts.

4. A CD-ROM inserted in a glued-in envelope at the back of the book along with the poster and handouts. The CD includes the following:

• Complete PDF editions of both The Banewarrens and Chaositech, two Ptolus-based Malhavoc Press products.
• A PDF edition of the entirely new Ptolus adventure, The Night of Dissolution.
• A 32-page Player’s Guide to Ptolus, designed to be used by players in the setting rather than the DM, and written from their perspective.
• A detailed 32-page conversion guide for fans of Monte Cook’s Arcana Evolved.
• Handouts (printer-friendly versions) and bonus graphics
• Ptolus Campaign Journals 1 and 2
• Saga of the Blade Short Fiction (from Game Trade Magazine)
• Ptolus: City by the Spire Comic Book #1: The Allure if a Sword (from DBPro)
• Korben Trollone’s Office Adventure Map (from SkeletonKey Games)
• Miniatures Mini-Gallery (from Paizo Publishing)
• This Week in Ptolus
• Searchable Index
• Expanded Table of Contents
• Bookmarks (printer-friendly versions)
• Full Ptolus Map Key
• E-Book Coupon (from DriveThruRPG.com)
• Overall, an additional 700+ pages of adventure, source, and reference material.

And as if this weren’t enough, don’t like the idea of dragging around a 600 plus page book around with you, Ptolus will also be distributed in a PDF format available thru

“www. Drive Thru RPG. Com ” as nine different Pdf files. that will comprise the entiriety of the Ptolus book, with alot of freebies available on the Monte Cooke website.

With just a ton of support from third party publishers, Monte Cook’s Ptolus campaign will keep rpg geeks salivating for many moons to come.

If your looking for new places to find & explore, set your wandering eye on the city of Ptolus and find your place there.