Kingofpain89 wrote:Asinine BIN: ** expired/removed eBay auction **
red_bus wrote:Ian - what do you think of Ptolus? I don't know much about it - although when it came out it won awards for art and design - and it is meant to be huge and carefully detailed. But would it work with 1st ed AD&D? Would it be easy to adapt to an old rules campaign or is it grognard-incompatible?
mbassoc2003 wrote:I didn't quite like Bard's Gate
mbassoc2003 wrote:or Freeport.
mbassoc2003 wrote:It all depends on how much work you want to do as a DM and how confident you are at DMing on the fly. I would say that you can adapt anything to work with 1E, and as far as detailed cityscapes go, it is one of the most comprehensively detailed cities out there on account of how much Monte Cook and freinds manage to publish.That said, there are far better cities to work with for a variety of reasons. By far, I still consider Liberty to be the finest designed little cityscape to date. Unfortunately only Thieves' Quarter and Temple Quarter were ever published, so you'd need to do a lot of donkey work yourself. But the map is a masterpiece (and also an award winner).I also like the feel of what has been written about Yggsburgh, and am now interested in some of the city and townships in Paizo's Pathfinder series. I didn't quite like Bard's Gate or Freeport. They just seemed like the same old crap people pass off from time to time. There is also either of the two decent versions of CSIO (JG's original and Necromancer's) both of which are fantastic products.So I suppose for me, all I can say is that if I were going to be running a campaign, I'd be looking at either Liberty or the JG original of CSIO. I may consider Yggsburgh, but only if I were intending to run CZ:UW, and even then, I may be tempted to surplant CZ:UW elsewhere. Ptolus at $60 as a PDF is worth it if you have the money and need source material, but if you want value for your money, buy Thieves' Quarter, Temple Quarter, Ring of Thieves, and the Giant poster Map from Cafe Press, and fill in the blanks yourself. Ptolus is purely for collectors. It's not the best playable product in the world.
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megnelwil wrote: ** expired/removed eBay auction **I've sold a few of these and never got within a mile of being this lucky. Right place, right time.
SoulCatcher78 wrote:I'm wondering why the box looks shrinkwrapped but the listing states that it is "in good condition with only slight wear." Odd.