I should make a few things clear at the start. is still attracting players more than 30 years after its appearance.
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Blogs and notes on message boards show that the E.P.T.
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The latest edition of The Book of Visitations of Glory, a Tekumel APA, includes an adventure explicitly designed to be usable with E.P.T.
#EMPIRE OF THE PETAL THRONE BOX SET PDF#
It has been reprinted several times and is currently available in hardcopy from Tita’s House of Games and in PDF form from RPGNow. itself has not been relegated to the scrapheap. Broadly speaking, Tekumel draws on the civilizations of India and Mesoamerica, with added inspiration from authors like Howard, Burroughs, and Vance.īarker’s world has been used as the setting for a number of RPGs since E.P.T.-most recently, Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne from Guardians of Order (2005). In the depth of its history and cultures it bears comparison with Middle Earth, but its roots lie in very different material than Tolkien employed. Barker, is one of the most exotic and elaborate alternate worlds ever to grace an RPG. And what a setting it is! The planet Tekumel, the brainchild of M.A.R. Its most notable innovation is providing a detailed setting, something no roleplaying game had done before. It is, arguably, the second RPG produced, and it marks the first appearance of some concepts widely used in future products. The game deserves attention for many reasons. The previous owner has stored these maps rolled up in a poster tuber rather than folded in the game box, and we will supply them in the same tube.I was surprised when I searched the database and found that T.S.R.’s Empire of the Petal Throne (hereafter E.P.T.) had no reviews. The three large full-colour maps are present and are all in GOOD condition. The introduction sheet (the text of which was printed on the back of the box in the second printing) is present and is in GOOD condition. There are a handful of small ink marks in the book. A previous owner has attached a sticker with his name and address on the inside front cover. (Yes, this was originally bound with one of those cheap binding machines.) Sellotape has been used to repair the binding at some point in its 46 year life, but that sellotape has largely perished. The covers and the final couple of pages have detached from the plastic binding comb. TSR the offered to publish the game commercially, and this is the first TSR edition, from 1975. Professor Barker self-published a “manuscript” edition of the game in 1974 with a tiny print run of possibly just twenty copies. Share in this exciting fantasy world by playing EMPIRE OF THE PETAL THRONE.”ĭepending on how you define “published”, this was arguably the second RPG ever published, and the second published by TSR. The game contains three large full-colour maps and 8 1/4″ x 11″ book with a brief history of Tekumel, rules, descriptions of various races and creatures involved, and more.
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and there are certain supernatural powers which may intervene. A hostile world of poisonous flora and fauna, with intelligent and vengeful native races! Mankind and its allies must battle for survival with nothing save Medieval technology - but magic aids them. 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. Empire of the Petal Throne (1975 1st TSR edition), boxed roleplaying game, by Professor M.A.R.