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Ptolus.Com 2 Ptolus: Districts of the City, Vol ™ VOLUME 2 DISTRICTS OF THE CITY Sample file By Monte Cook ® WWW.PTOLUS.COM 2 PTOLUS: DISTRICTS OF THE CITY, VOL. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ■ Introduction City Map . .5 Where Do I Start? . .6 Page Numbering . .6 Your City Guide . .7 Acknowledgments . .7 What is Ptolus? . .7 Ptolus Miniatures . .8 DISTRICTS OF THE CITY ■ Nobles' Quarter ■ North Market ■ Oldtown The Flavor of the Nobles’ The Flavor of the North The Flavor of Oldtown . .42 Quarter . .9 Market . .32 Running Oldtown . .43 Running the Nobles’ Quarter . .10 Running the North Market . .32 The People of Oldtown . .43 People of the Nobles’ Quarter . .12 People of the North Market . .33 Man on the Street . .43 The Upper Class . .12 Man on the Street . .33 Oldtown Rumors . .44 Man on the Street . .13 North Market Rumors . .35 Oldtown Locations . .44 Nobles’ Quarter Rumors . .13 North Market Locations . .35 Administration Building . .44 Nobles’ Quarter Locations . .14 BithSample the Ratter . file. .35 The Arena . .45 The Aristocrat’s Table . .14 The Book Wagon . .35 Bellringers’ Guild Office . .47 Castle Shard . .15 Heavenly Baked Goods . .35 The Bladechapel . .47 Crown Theater . .21 Information Panel: Citadel of the Golden Dallaster Manor . .22 Eating in Ptolus . .36 Cross . .47 Holy Palace . .22 Killraven’s Tower . .38 Citadel of Might . .47 Imperial Academy of Lendarick . .38 City Courts . .47 Music (the Conservatory) . .25 Mitoren’s Blades . .39 City Library . .48 Noble Estates . .25 Red Stallion Pub . .39 Clock Tower . .48 Rosegate House . .28 The Smoke Shop . .40 Dalenguard . .50 Soaring Idyll . .30 Wondrous Tattoos . .40 Delver’s Guild Library Swordthrower’s Club . .31 The Zar’at . .40 and Maproom . .52 Other Locales . .31 Other Locales . .41 Hammersong Vaults . .52 Imperial University . .52 Inverted Pyramid . .54 Kadmiel, the Shade Tower . .56 Kaira Swanwing’s House . .59 The Pale Tower . .59 Sages’ Guild Headquarters . .62 Secret Hall . .62 Information Panel: Dweomer Street . .63 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Shadow Theater . .64 Ramoro’s Bakery . .94 CREDITS Skulk Alley . .64 Rogue Moon Trading WRITING: Tower of Science . .64 Company . .94 Monte Cook The White House . .64 Salora’s Pots . .95 Yarrow Street Forum . .66 Spice Market . .95 EDITING AND PRODUCTION: Other Locales . .67 Welcome Inn . .95 Sue Weinlein Cook Miscellaneous Oldtown NPCs .68 Other Locales . .96 COVER ART AND LOGO: Araki Chipestiro . .68 Miscellaneous South Derresh . .69 Market NPCs . .96 Todd Lockwood The Iron Mage . .70 The Wandering Smith . .97 CARTOGRAPHY: Ed Bourelle ■ Rivergate District ■ Temple District The Flavor of the Rivergate The Flavor of the Temple FEATURED ARTISTS: District . .72 District . .98 Jason Engle, The Forge Studios (Maciej Running the Rivergate District .72 Running the Temple District . .99 Zagórski and Pawel Dobosz), Michael People of the Rivergate District .73 People of the Temple District .100 Komarck, Eric Lofgren, Howard Lyon, Man on the Street . .73 Man on the Street . .101 Rivergate Rumors . .74 and Michael Phillippi. Rivergate Locations . .74 CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Barbarian Balloonists . .74 Toren “MacBin” Atkinson, Kev Center Circle . .74 Crossley, Talon Dunning, Brian Cooper’s Store . .75 Darksoul House . .75 LeBlanc, Alan Pollack, rk post, Peter Finelle’s Pleasant Schlough, J.D. Sparks, Arne Swekel, Diversions . .76 Sam Wood, and Kieran Yanner Golathan Naddershrike’s GRAPHIC DESIGN: House and Laboratory . .76 Jangave Lesh’s Lisa Chido and Brian Rasmussen Training Hall . .77 TYPESETTING: Three-Horned Goat . .77 Lisa Chido Well of the Shadow Eyes . .78 Other Locales . .78 Sample file PROOFREADING: Brian Gute and Miranda Horner ■ South Market The Flavor of the South Market 80 INDEXING: A Typical Shop . .81 Lori Ann Curley Running the South Market . .82 MIDTOWN PARTISAN: People of the South Market . .82 Erik Mona Man on the Street . .82 South Market Rumors . .82 PTOLUS RESIDENTS: South Market Locations . .83 Michele Carter, Andy Collins, Sue Blackstock Printing . .83 Cook, Bruce R. Cordell, Jesse Decker, The Cock Pit . .85 Donnel’s . .87 Erik Mona, Christopher Perkins, Sean Exotic Market . .88 K Reynolds, and Keith Strohm Fabric Market . .88 VISITORS TO THE CITY: Information Panel: Steven “Stan!” Brown, Jeff Quick, Keri Gambling Games . .89 Faraway Scents . .90 Reynolds, Charles Ryan, Ed Stark, and The Golden Tooth . .90 James Wyatt Korben Trollone’s Office HEROES OF ANCIENT PRAEMAL: (Edarth’s Loans) . .90 Michele Carter, Bruce R. Cordell, Mahdoth’s Asylum . .91 Maran’s Odd Sizes . .94 Christopher Perkins, John Rateliff, Navaen Bowcraft . .94 Teresa Reid, and Sean K Reynolds 4 PTOLUS: DISTRICTS OF THE CITY, VOL. 2 Temple District Rumors . .101 Order of the Fist ■ Warrens Temple District Locations . .102 Compound . .103 The Flavor of the Warrens . .130 Celestial Conclave . .102 Priory of Introspection . .104 Running the Warrens . .131 Conciliator Chapterhouse .102 Shrine of the Oracle . .105 Getting Around Hall of Heroes . .102 St. Valien’s Cathedral . .106 in the Warrens . .131 House of the Sacred Heat . .103 Stormwrought Campanile .107 People of the Warrens . .132 Taggert’s . .108 Man on the Street . .132 Temple of Ahaar . .108 Warrens Rumors . .133 Temple of Asche . .108 Warrens Locations . .133 GUIDE TO THE PTOLUS PDFS Temple of the Ebon Hand .109 Chapel of the Final Throughout this book you will find Temple of Excellence . .114 Resolution . .134 references in the text and in the side- Temple of Gaen . .115 The Eight Shadows . .135 panels to other books in the PT series Temple of Navashtrom . .117 Jirraith’s Lair . .136 of Ptolus PDF editions. For your con- Temple Observatory of Lackie’s . .137 venience, here’s a listing of all the titles the Watcher of the Skies . .119 Madame Kaetha’s House . .138 in the series and their corresponding Temple of the Rat God . .120 Pale Dog Safe House . .140 title codes: Information Panel: Other Locales . .141 A Player’s Guide to Ptolus PT1 The Godsday Festival The World of Praemal PT2 and Tournament . .122 Organizations PT3 Temple of Teun . .125 APPENDIX Districts of the City, Vol. 1 PT4 Other Locales . .127 Districts of the City, Vol. 2 PT5 Miscellaneous Temple District ■ DM’s Companion PT6 NPCs . .127 Handouts and More Beneath the Streets PT7 Shibata . .127 Open Game License . .142 Adventures PT8 Talenta . .128 Legal . .142 The Spire PT9 Tiel Lawley . .128 Ptolus at a Glance . .143 Rosegate House . .145 Sample file Sample file 6 PTOLUS: DISTRICTS OF THE CITY, VOL. 2 INTRODUCTION Introducing the City of Ptolus, district by district! PAGE NUMBERING elcome to Districts of the City, Vol. 2. those are for the DM to reveal as time goes on. Along with its companion volume, DMs should print out a copy for each player. Two sets of page numbers appear Sample file this book lays out the City of Ptolus Let everyone have a chance to learn about the at the top of the pages that come W before you in detail. The material in this book city and get a feel for the setting. after this introduction. The main corresponds directly to Chapters 12–18 in Where you go next depends on how you’re page numbers correspond to this Ptolus: Monte Cook’s City by the Spire. going to use Ptolus. If you want it to be your book’s table of contents. The ones This is one in a series of nine Ptolus PDF campaign setting, start reading PT2, The World in parenthesis correspond to the releases from Malhavoc Press. When used of Praemal and learn all the basics of the world. page numbers of the Ptolus print together, they comprise the entirety of the Ptolus If Ptolus is destined to become a city in your book. They are there so you can print book. Each one is also usable on its own existing world, jump straight to this Districts of properly check the side-panel cross- for city-based fantasy d20 roleplaying cam- the City PDF (and Volume 1 as well) and read references of important words that paigns. about the various parts of town. you’ll find boldfaced throughout If you only want to mine the setting for ideas, this book. These cross-references tell WHERE DO I START? flip through the various PDF releases that inter- you where to find more information If you’ve purchased this book as a general est you and look at whatever strikes your fancy. about a given term, character, or sourcebook and you’re not sure what Ptolus is, You’ll find interesting city locales, strange and place. They direct you to either a check out the sidebar on the next page for a fascinating NPCs, dungeon complexes, evil page number in this book, a chapter primer on the product and the city it details. If fortresses, haunted ruins, complex organiza- in another book, or a page number on the other hand you’re starting to plan your tions, a few new races, monsters, prestige class- and title code of another install- own Ptolus Campaign, here are a few guidelines es, spells, and a lot more. ment of the PT series. We reference on how to get started. Ready-made adventures for characters of the page numbers from the print Whether you are a player or a DM, start by level 1 to 4 are available in PT8, Adventures. book so that, whatever edition of reading A Player’s Guide to Ptolus. That For those of you who need adventures beyond Ptolus you have, you can discuss book—free to download as a PDF at those offered there, check out the ninety-six- page references with friends and <www.ptolus.com>—provides a quick overview page Night of Dissolution Ptolus adventure. It not risk any confusion. Look for of everything else in the book. Of course, it provides an exciting Ptolus-based adventure for a rundown of all PT title codes doesn’t go into any of the secrets of the setting— 4th- to 9th-level characters.
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