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 5: Fresh Off the Boat
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 4: What About All Those Player-Characters?
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 After some behind the scenes political maneuvering, he had been replaced by Lady Nátluna hiVaisúra, the High Administrative Priestess of Thúmis in… Continue reading Tékumel Thursday 3: A Disaster at Sea
My World of Tékumel Having played in the world of Tékumel for over 25 years in the original campaign, I never fully understood what Prof. Barker meant by his statement in the Tékumel Sourcebook, “…we cannot keep your Tékumel from drifting away from mine. This is as it should be. You have just bought MY… Continue reading Tékumel Thursday 2: My World of Tékumel
