OSR Has anyone run Ptolus in an OSR system? If so, how did it work out?

Xenolith234 · Feb 28, 2025

I’m thinking of running Ptolus for my next campaign, but I can’t make up my mind if I should hack 5e to bits or just run it in an OSR system. Has anyone here done that, and was it successful?

jdrakeh · Feb 28, 2025

There is a 5e version of Ptolus now and it'll be much easier to trim that down to work with an OSR system, rather than trying to do the same with the 3.5 edition (IMO).

Xenolith234 · Feb 28, 2025

jdrakeh said:
There is a 5e version of Ptolus now and it'll be much easier to trim that down to work with an OSR system, rather than trying to do the same with the 3.5 edition (IMO).

I have the 5e version - just wondering if it’d be worth backporting to something like Swords & Wizardry, or Shadowdark I suppose if it’d be easier to be 5e-adjacent.

jdrakeh · Feb 28, 2025

Oh, I've not ported Ptolus specifically to S&W, but I have ported other 5e content to S&W and it's really very easy.

OSR Has anyone run Ptolus in an OSR system? If so, how did it work out?

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