D&D Ratmen as a Playable Race in Ptolus: Should You Allow It?
Should ratmen be allowed as player characters in Ptolus? A practical guide for Narrators on tone, consequences, moral ambiguity, and table buy-in.
My Favorite thing to do with the “Iron Mage” Ptolus Chatbot
Transform leveling up in D&D into an immersive story with realistic training periods and downtime activities that add depth to your campaign.
Level Up with Training Downtime: Make Your D&D Game More Realistic!
Transform leveling up in D&D into an immersive story with realistic training periods and downtime activities that add depth to your campaign.
Ptolus ChatGPT Chat Bot 2.0 Released
The new version of the ChatGPT based chat bot (aka the Iron Mage) on this website will now remember the previous chats you had with it. If you move around the website, click on different pages, or even sign out and back in again, your chats will be remembered.
Ptolus ChatGPT Chat Bot Tutorial Walkthrough
Discover the new Chatbot for Ptolus on Ptol.us powered by ChatGPT. Helping Dungeon Masters run campaigns with ease. Get it for $5/month on Patreon!
We Don’t Tell Stories About People to whom Interesting Things Don’t Happen
It's Okay that Your Dungeons & Dragons (RPG) Campaign is not Realistic. We simply don't tell stories about people to whom interesting things don't happen.
DMPCs are NOT Bad
A LOT of people HATE on DMPCs - Dungeon Master Player Characters - but they are one of my favorite parts of my games.
How RPG Characters Dress Should Affect NPC Role Playing Interactions
The way D&D Characters (PCs) dress should change how NPCs interact with them in role playing. "The clothes make the person." The same is true in RPG worlds.
Owning Real Estate in Ptolus for a Lair/Business/Homebase
Players might want their RPG Characters to own Real Estate in your Campaign. Ptolus is especially suited for your PCs to own a Homebase or a Business to be their Lair or just a Residence.
Three Modules : Barrow of the Forgotten King / The Sinister Spire / Fortress of the Yuan-Ti
These three adventure modules flow together, taking PCs from 2nd through 8th level and will work great for a Ptolus Campaign. Explore catacombs beneath graves, an Underdark spire-city by a sunless sea, and storm a Yuan-ti castle to take the bones of a long dead king before an evil ritual is completed.