The setting for this fantasy campaign game is an alien planet, Tekumel, where a cosmic cataclysm stranded human and extra-territorial invaders eons past. "Tekumel, the world of fantasy and adventure. Photoshoot over at my gameblog: Empire of the Petal Throne: The First RPG with a Campaign World… TEKUMEL (1975) Barker continued work on his exotic campaign world until his passing in 2012. Competing side-by-side with early Dungeons & Dragons, EPT quickly faded from the TSR product line.
Barker's Tekumel as the "Empire of the Petal Throne" (EPT) in 1975, supported by a handful of articles in the earliest Dragon magazines. Most died with their Tekumel game lines half-completed. an anonymous Amazon reviewerĪ note about gaming Tekumel: A progression - nay, a blizzard - of game companies have tried their hand at Tekumel. For writers, readers, or gameplayers who are interested in world generation, Barker has written the textbook examples.". The legends and religions, in fact, are only echoes of whatever existed thousands of years before.Īt any rate, this is one of the most complex worlds ever created, with the linguistics probably far more intricate than anything else. The races and their langauges, their artifacts and civilizations, that are depicted by Barker, have all arisen from the ashes of this cataclysm on Tekumel. His entire world, in fact, is set in a far future and based on a science fiction universe of extremely advanced technologies wherein this one world (or perhaps all the universe) has undergone a horrendous trauma (be it war or cosmic cataclysm has yet to be explained, though promised for the new volumes) that severed it from contact with the rest of the universe. They are dynamic, gritty, and overwhelming in their minute details. It is often compared to Tolkien's Middle Earth, but Tekumel is very, very different.īarker's style and world generation is actually the equivalent of what is termed "hard science fiction", whereas Tolkien's is true fantasy, or more the model of style for what is termed "soft SF" or "science fantasy." Barker's stories are never "magical" in the sense of the fairy tale, which was the hallmark of Tolkien. Barker has created one of the most detailed and intricate worlds in fiction. Tekumel Fiction | TSR | Imperium Publishing | Judges Guild | Adventure Games | Gamescience | Tekumel Games | Different Worlds | TOME | Guardians of Order | OtherīROWSE MY TEKUMEL ITEMS CURRENTLY IN STOCK Tekumel - Empire of the Petal Throne - The World Created by Prof. Tekumel - Empire of the Petal Throne - M.A.R.
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