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WOOT! I got mine! WOOT!
I paid less than retail! :D
Here is my secret...
I have been looking for a while and when someone made an appeal to the community here I realized that I have friends all over the US and so I started asking them to keep an eye open... I got the news last night that one was found on the opposite cost and by signing up for the store newsletter there was a discount applied! :D
Next time I see her she will bring my book, which means a few months but I am too excited for words!
I hope this helps someone else find a copy... The best part was that the store owner was so excited to get rid of it... He had been holding it for a long time now and was sure he would get stuck with it.
I went for the copy I found on Amazon; I figured that a complete copy with no damage will likely go for even more in a matter of months. If you think about how much it would have come to if it was all in seperate, smaller books including the pdfs and other bonus material; I think it was a pretty sound investment.
I just posted an ebay auction for a copy of Ptolus. Unsigned, but still very good. Slight shelf wear on the spine. It also comes with a print copy of Night of Dissolution.
I'm also looking for a copy, preferably in the UK ....
Believe it or not, but by **complete** coincidence stumbled across a copy on a visit to Brighton (!)
It was sans-box and no map or CD either, it was the667 page book only, although it in good condition and seems to have been a bargain at £15 (about $25-30).
Unfortunately it was their sole copy....
Can anyone enlighten me what I'm now missing ?
Hi, dave. I've asked around, and sent out feelers on a couple of messageboards. So far, not much.
DrivethruRPG does have Ptolus as an immense .pdf file, for $65, which might be the practical way to go at this point. Otherwise, the eTrade / Amazon on-line booksellers seem to have an operating price of about $250 for the hardcover.
UPDATE: Dave, someone pointed me to something called FetchBook, which seems to have it on sale for about $90 or so.
UPDATE: Dave, someone pointed me to something called FetchBook, which seems to have it on sale for about $90 or so.
Looked at FetchBook and it seems to link to other stores, but the ones that are listed there seem to be sold out...
I have a stupid question. I bought the PDF version, the entire "Ptolus: City by the Spire." I have a section of the PDF labeled "Envelope/CD contents". The PDF of the main book makes several references to the Banewarrens adventure and the Chaositec book that are "on the CD rom". However, when I go to the CD contents, they are not there. A few other things are missing too.
Does the PDF contain less actual content than the physical book with the physical CD? Since the PDF was half price, I don't see this as unfair, so it's not a complaint. I'm just wondering if I'm missing something.
Jolly Roger,
The "Ptolus Bonus Material" CD includes a folder labeled "Bonus Products". That includes the .pdfs of "A Player's Guide to Ptolus" (a reprint of the first chapter of the hardcover), "Chaositech", "Night of Dissolution", and "The Banewarrens".
I own this CD, but before I bought the Big Book, I had also purchased, seperately, .pdfs of each of these bonus books. There might be some legal way for me to give away some of these duplicate rights to these products.
For anyone interested: I was talking with my friend Noel last night. He mentioned that, as the former owner of a game store, he still has three copies of Ptolus in storage, two of which he'd be willing to part with. He says that the marketting fellow was really hyping it up big when it came time for pre-orders, but that the brick of a book just sat on his shelves when it finally came out.
As I said, two extra copies.
For anyone interested: I was talking with my friend Noel last night. He mentioned that, as the former owner of a game store, he still has three copies of Ptolus in storage, two of which he'd be willing to part with. He says that the marketting fellow was really hyping it up big when it came time for pre-orders, but that the brick of a book just sat on his shelves when it finally came out.
As I said, two extra copies.
Well, would he ship one to France (Paris) ? What is his price ?
Expecting and panting...
I'll post tonight around 9:00 and let you folks know what he says.
For whatever my opinion is worth, Ptolus is certainly worth the price, in terms of great D&D ideas and excellent professional writing and development. But I've been looking to "drop it into" my current campaign world, and there are aspects of Ptolus's default world background that would make it an ill fit for, say, Greyhawk or the Forgotten Realms. (Or Golarion, for that matter.)
(My campaign is set in what amounts to a prison plane, a continent once part of a mch larger world, now calved off into its own plane by some very frightened gods. Ptolus fits in better there.)
My friend's store recently collapsed, but he's still selling some of his stock. He has a copy with all the materials for full price and also has one of Ptolus vinyl maps(I think it's the smaller one) also for sale.
I was thinking of jumping all over this, but I'm going to wait for Egocentrix and David to pass on it first. After all, they did ask before I did.
