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Tékumel Thursday: What About All Those Dispatches?

Starting in The Strategic Review, Vol. II, No. 2, published in April 1976, reports of what was happening in Prof. Barker’s campaign began to appear.  These were written in the form of dispatches sent through the Imperial bureaucracy, possibly requiring some sort of action – thus giving readers a window into the World of Tekumel. … Continue reading Tékumel Thursday: What About All Those Dispatches?

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Tékumel Thursday: Fresh Off the Boat

Probably the biggest issue that people have with running Tékumel is that the setting is an unknown and foreign land, and nobody is actually from there.  Original Dungeons & Dragons seemed to assume that the adventurers were on the edge of civilization, and beating back the forces of darkness.  Tékumel, by contrast, seems like you… Continue reading Tékumel Thursday: Fresh Off the Boat

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Tékumel Thursday: What About All Those Player-Characters?

In my Tékumel Thursday post last week, I talked about making a decisive change to my Tékumel, essentially creating my own branch on the Tree of Time.  I did this by eliminating one character and their later actions from the campaign.   Put another way, I decided that the starting “canon” for the campaign would come… Continue reading Tékumel Thursday: What About All Those Player-Characters?

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Tékumel Thursday: A Disaster at Sea

In my earlier post about my Tékumel campaign, I mentioned that in my timeline, the High Princeps of the Temple of Thúmis, Gámalu hiBeshyéne, had died in a shipwreck late in 2355 AS. After some behind the scenes political maneuvering, he had been replaced by Lady Nátluna hiVaisúra, the High Administrative Priestess of Thúmis in… Continue reading Tékumel Thursday: A Disaster at Sea

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Tekumel Thursday: Setting Up Your Campaign

Setting Up Your Tekumel Campaign Having played Tékumel for a very long time with Prof. Barker, I didn’t anticipate some of the choices I would be faced with when running my own Tékumel campaign. I think a lot of Tékumel fans attempting to start a campaign try to encompass all – ALL – of the… Continue reading Tekumel Thursday: Setting Up Your Campaign