Realm Works and Ptolus

[Grey Mage]

It didn't... sections of it... but not a PDF of the actual book as published.

[kbs666]

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.

[Parody]

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. :(

[Asandir]

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.

[kbs666]

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.

[Asandir]

Originally Posted by kbs666

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.

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.