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Realm Works and Ptolus

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Davout_1806

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Hi,

So I'm thinking of entering Ptolus info into RW. With Ptolus being so large I'm wondering if anyone has used RW for Ptolus. If so, how did you structure your content and what changes (if any) would you make if you did it again.

Thanks!
 
Funny. I'd been looking at entering it as well. I'd poked at it a bit, but I hadn't had any major revelations for entering it though.
 
650 pages of campaign setting? That's a big job.

First, I'd make sure to be as familiar with the material as is possible.

Any way you go is going to be in some way wrong for RW so I wouldn't worry to much about getting it perfectly "right" at first. Scan for new links is going to be your friend on a project this size.

Ptolus details mostly the city itself so you can do a top down approach that covers the world itself and the empire surrounding the city with all the detail provided pretty quickly.

Then its a matter of organizing the city content. I'd break it up into neighborhoods or regions or whatever they call them, IIRC the book includes low level maps of each, and work on one at time.

I'd save the various adventure sites for last. They will require the most attention to detail and likely the most breaking up of material from the way it is presented in the book. Also those maps will generally require a lot of pins and creating pins and tying them to topics can be awfully tedious.

I wouldn't expect to get it done quickly or that you would do it without one or more times where you stop everything to refactor major sections to better suit how you use it.
 
This would be something I'd be trying to find a partner to assist in the effort. Allocate out a section of the book to each person and get to work. Consolidate at the end.

Obviously you can never distribute copy-right material but I personally don't see any issues with working as a team to enter content that you both own.
 
I've spent a bit of time looking tonight, I know the hardcover of Ptolus came with a CD but so far I haven't found mine. Did it include a PDF of the book?
 
Finally found it. No, the CD does not have a PDF of the book. Probably why I didn't bother keeping it where I could find it.
 
I picked up the Ptolus PDFs from DriveThru at some point. (I think when they were on sale for $20 a few years ago.)

Still haven't read through the whole thing from either copy. :(
 
Started looking at this again. The PDF has a fairly substantial index. It lists all the locations within each district, all the NPC's and historical figures you would find reference to in any of the material, so there are "easy" ways to build some of the base content for it.

Additionally, when you look at all the related content for Ptolus, you have The Banewarrens, Dark Tidings, The Night of Dissolution, Secrets of the Delvers Guild, Chaositech, and then if you go out to some of the related references that it suggests, you get links into the Books of Eldritch Might and a couple of other Malhavoc Press titles. It's a pretty massive undertaking.

As daplunk suggested, splitting it up, among interested parties would be the way to go with this. And then at the earliest point you get into which Game System to build it in. Granted a lot of the material is system agnostic.
 
Ptolus was meant for the old 3e d20 rules. Adapting it to Pathfinder wouldn't be difficult but wouldn't be trivial. Any other conversion, considering the amount of material would be a massive undertaking.
 
kbs666 said:
Ptolus was meant for the old 3e d20 rules. Adapting it to Pathfinder wouldn't be difficult but wouldn't be trivial. Any other conversion, considering the amount of material would be a massive undertaking.
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Point being that you have some predefined structures in Realm Works including 5th ed, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, Other and System Neutral. Was just thinking from a pure predefined structure, since Pathfinder is an outgrowth of 3.0/3.5 it might fit more readily into that better than any of the others. If you build the HL NPC's then use the d20 setup and build the portfolios there and note that while it's in a Pathfinder defined, it is geared around 3.5. Clearly 5th and Savage Worlds isn't the right place, which leaves Pathfinder, Other and System Neutral. It's not really system neutral, which then leaves Other and Pathfinder. All academic at this point, until someone(s) wants to seriously move forward with the creation of the content in RW. Again, just my two cents at this point.
 
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