It is worth keeping in mind that Empire of the Petal Throne (EPT) was one of the first roleplaying games published after Original D&D. The fact that it is well-written and laid-out in a clean and attractive fashion for the time can mask this fact. But that also means that there are things not necessarily… Continue reading Tékumel Thursday 10: EPT Rules Updates – Introduction
Tékumel is very well suited to the long-form tabletop roleplaying campaign. It has cultural, social, and historical depth, it covers a vast area, and has tremendous detail to it. It is also incomplete, which invites further participation by game masters wanting to contribute their own ideas to the game. So it should not be surprising… Continue reading Tékumel Thursday 9: Starting My Campaign
This is the first Dispatch to the Petal Throne, and is highly appropriate, since it involves an adventure undertaken by one of Bill Hoyt’s characters, a priest of Keténgku… “ . . .Know ye, O Perfumer of the Nostrils of the Gods, that an intelligence has come from your city of Urmish of most curious… Continue reading Tékumel Thursday 8: The Haunted Sákbe-Road
Just got back from Gary Con XVI, so this is about how to run Tékumel convention events and how to attract players for a Tékumel campaign. At Gary Con XVI I ran three different adventures, all based out of the northern Tsolyáni city of Khirgár. Here is the description for the second one: Deep in… Continue reading Tékumel Thursday 7: Gary Con XVI
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 6: What About All Those Dispatches?
I’m writing a short essay for people who are new to Old School gaming, but who are considering running an Old School campaign. There’s lots of good advice out there about doing that directly, but not as much about how to think about it – Matt Finch’s excellent Quick Primer is good, and if there… Continue reading Advice for new referees, Part One
