These books, starting with Magician, were staples of '80s fantasy. There is no way around it, Kelewan is a Tekumel knockoff. In those books, the inhabitants of Kelewan invade the heroes' home world of Midkemia. I probably learned more about how the Tsolyani people interact with each other from her modules than from any other source. She does an excellent job creating interpersonal conflict in her games. So where can you look for an example of what a more in depth, lower-key, political game might look like once you shift over to that?įirst, I will again recommend the various adventures by Krista Donnelly that can be found in fanzines. I'll be honest, based on the lukewarm recommendations, I have never sought them out. I have never read, or even seen in person, the later Tekumel books by M.A.R. The nakome, foreign, scum you have in your party don't deserve an explanation as to why they are being hired to grab that idol anyway. You don't have to have this all figured out ahead of time either. You can then peel back the curtain and reveal the larger context of all those dungeon runs they have been doing. Go ahead and fool around with dungeon and wilderness adventures until you are comfortable enough with the setting to start running in-depth city games. This is a perfect recipe for your own Tekumel adventures. Eventually, they learn what they come to understand the web they are caught up in. Crazy, underground subway rides to TERROR, pre-teens getting into dimension-hopping hijinks with a cat-person companion, yet another secret heir to the throne, and plenty of political machinations as well.īoth books share the idea that the main characters, who are going on D&D adventures (often literally in dungeons), are the unwitting subjects of political machinations by others. Barker: In many ways, this one is even more over the top. It is also a great way to get a feel for the setting from the ground level.Ģ) Flamesong by M.A.R. It does have secret heirs and political machinations, but it also has an adventure that would work as a Forgotten Realms novel. Barker: This one is pure pulp adventure with dungeon exploring, a young protagonist with a secret past, golem fights, and even "meanwhile on the other side of Eternia in Snake Mountain" style cut-aways.
#Empire of the petal throne wizard wars full
Don't believe me? Here are some books full of D&D style adventures set on Tekumel:ġ) Man of Gold by M.A.R. Second, Tekumel is a D&D adventure style world. If you keep doing that until your group tires of it, you are doing it right. You certainly can use it to do other things, but it was built for exactly the kinds of adventures you are running. It is clearly a game designed around adventuring in the underworld, fighting in the arena, and exploring trackless wilderness. YOU ARE ALREADY GETTING IT WRONG!įirst, don't forget to flip through the rule section of EPT. That is where the fear comes in, you don't know enough about Tsolyani culture to run complicated diplomatic adventures. No, you think, I need to be writing adventures about clan intrigue and temples harboring secret heirs to the Petal Throne.
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You are flipping through the background section in EPT and feeling like Tekumel is not a world designed for exploring its sewers. You see, you have started to let that FEAR OF GETTING IT WRONG creep back in again. You are asking yourself, "Self, other than these dungeon runs, what kind of adventures can I run on Tekumel?" So now, having given yourself permission to dive right in, you have been running expeditions to the Jakallan underworld for a few weeks, and you are starting to get the itch to expand the types of adventures you have in your campaign. In the second part, I discussed using Empire of the Petal Throne to run Tekumel, and why I thought it was still a great choice in rule systems. In that post I discussed how, with a single guide pamphlet, you could start running Tekumel with any game system you wanted.
#Empire of the petal throne wizard wars how to
In the first part of this series, I talked about how to get started running Tekumel games quickly.
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