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DAD Question - just how much Ptolus?

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lostdrewid	DAD Question - just how much Ptolus?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 75 (04/06/09 22:43:32) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None So I know that the DungeonADay.com deal isn't the Ptolus Dungeon, but the front page mentions that there will be articles "now and again" about Ptolus. I'm curious if any more information is known about this yet. I very simply can't afford an ongoing subscription, especially since 90% [a guess, anyway] of the content won't be terribly useful to me [I have so many plans for Ptolus running only one game per month per party (of which there are two) that I can't even fathom throwing in an extra dungeon anywhere]. Paying a month here'n'there, on the other hand, that's something I can do. How easy will it be to find the Ptolus-specific stuff, if say a number of months go by? How much of the dungeon will remain in the archives? It's kinda odd [and not terribly fair] if, say, I pay for a single month a year from now and can snag everything that people have paid for an entire year so far. I just really don't want to miss the Ptolus updates. Any information would very much be appreciated.
Monte Cook		#1	[-]
Posts: 9715 (04/07/09 18:45:36) Strange Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm not 100% sure your assumptions are correct. If you're running a Ptolus game, you'll find far more than 10% of dungeonaday.com useful. The occasional articles you mention will be ideas on how to use the bulk of the material as the dungeons below Ptolus. That said, there won't be new specific Ptolus material. Ptolus DMs won't be missing out on new Ptolus-only material by not subscribing. Dungeonaday.com isn't Ptolus. I offer no guarantees that joining for just one month now and again is going to get you what you need, since that's not at all what dungeonaday.com is about. As you say, it's not fair to those who are real members. Some of the material does cycle (new replacing old) and if you aren't a member, you won't know when that's happening.
lostdrewid		#2	[-]
Posts: 78 (04/07/09 21:20:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well, that does make it fair. It'd feel very cheap for me to get everything for a sixth or a twelfth of the price. I can't afford it now, so I don't get everything. That's fine. If the only Ptolus related articles are ideas on how to turn this dungeon into the Ptolus dungeon... honestly I don't know if it'll be useful at all. I guess it depends on where my game goes. But my whole first year is tied up already, and the only dungeon diving we're doing is into stuff you laid out in tBW and tNoD. Next year I want to open Dwarvenhearth up, and while you have that city semi-to-fully mapped [I dun remember how detailed it was but I remember seeing a good few maps] there's still the whole bits of dungeon around Dwarvenhearth, not to mention the stuff getting there. The year after that will include your Queen of Lies stuff, which obviously means DAD will be useful then. So maybe next year I'll snag a subscription and keep it live, if I have better income [God, I hope I do ], but for now I just won't need it. Thanks for letting me know what to expect
Finniss		#3	[-]
Posts: 1371 (05/31/09 09:50:38) Cryptic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm considering doing a similar thing by occasionally subscribing. For me it's mostly practical. I don't have a lot of free time but occasionally I have a chunk. At one point I'll probably feel like taking Monte's inspiration and ideas and spend a few days pillaging dungeonaday of ideas, maps and encounters and use them in my own dungeons. 5 years ago daily updates would have been nice for me, but my schedule doesn't work that way anymore.
Tarondor		#4	[-]
Posts: 2051 (06/19/09 10:11:52) The Old Assassin Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well, I'm a subscriber. I don't always get to the site every day, but I do several times a week. I have an incredibly busy schedule (I run three businesses by myself) and I've found that other subscription projects just didn't work for me (the Wolfgang Baur things being a good example of something I spent money on but then had no time for). Dungeonaday is different in that Monte provides everything and my participation isn't required. Sure, one could look at it as a very expensive dungeon module, but there is a lot more. First of all, it's very large. Second, it includes a lot more than just the dungeon itself. Third, the Dwarven Forge pictures are very inspiring. Fifth, there is a lot of useful content in the form of additional feats, spells and items. Sixth, it's a great dungeon with lots of neat stuff in it. I expect Monte to one day publish the whole finished thing...and I'd probably buy it! But watching it be created is useful to me as a GM. So all in all, I'm a satisfied customer. Oh, and as to Ptolus, this dungeon would be -great- in Ptolus. Sure, there is a mind-goggling amount of information in the Ptolus book, but an entire dungeon all mapped out, statted and filled with new material? No...
Finniss		#5	[-]
Posts: 1395 (06/30/09 13:20:03) Cryptic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'd buy a massive Monte dungeon too if he ever decided to publish one.

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