Ptolus: Monte Cook's City by the Spire (2006)

Monte Cook's
City By The Spire

from the back cover:

Ptolus is here! this high quality book offers almost 700 pages of source and adventure material from one of the industry's greatest designers, A fantasy city built above extensive dungeons beside the spire of an ancient foe, Ptolus is a self-contained campaign --- or insert it into your home setting, if you prefer. Its unique design makes it the most DM-friendly book on your shelf, And the CD-Rom inside contains 400+ pages of bonus material, including "The Night of Dissolution", an all-new 96-page adventure, Ptolus was created by one of the architects of 3rd Edition for the gaming professionals in his group.

Those that preordered Ptolus: Monte Cook's City by the Spire before 30th June 2006 received several extra bonus items, some of which were available only to orders directly through the publisher:

• book is signed and numbered by the author
• a printed copy of The Night of Dissolution adventure
• five copies of A Player's Guide to Ptolus (shipped out prior to release of the main book)
• access to The Delvers Guild website (contents of which were latter collected in Secrets of the Delver's Guild)
• PDF downloads of PT2: Ptolus: The World of Praemal and PT3: Ptolus: Organizations

While eventually released also as a single PDF incorporating many of the bonus items from the CD and an the envelope in the hardcover verion, this book was originally split into the nine part Ptolus PDF release for it's electronic release.