Monte Cook Games

Explore the city. Build your character. And transport your imagination into this amazing fantasy world!

Perhaps you were born and raised here; perhaps you have recently arrived. Either way, you now walk the streets of Ptolus, that great port city beneath the towering, mysterious Spire.

You know a few things about this place—it is not without a reputation, to say the least. To call Ptolus a dynamic, vibrant city with a strange and varied identity is to greatly undersell it. Only now are explorers discovering how ancient the city really is, unearthing details of its long and twisting story. And Ptolus is where that strange breed that call themselves “delvers” congregate. It’s a place where people are as concerned with what lies below the ground as they are with what’s above. This is like no other place in the world.

While Ptolus: Monte Cook’s City by the Spire is a wealth of information best kept for the eyes of the Game's Master. The players, however, will get the most from their time in Ptolus if they are as immersed in this city as their characters are. Ptolus: A Player's Guide does just that: it takes you into the City by the Spire, introducing its districts, organizations, and history, along with its people and their customs and traditions. You’ll feel like you’ve lived here your whole life!

Ptolus: A Player's Guide is also a guide to character creation. It introduces the species and cultures unique to this setting, offers character background ideas, and discusses the roles of various classes and types within Ptolus society. Filled with facts and details, it’ll give you a thousand ideas for characters who really fit the setting.