This is still relatively easy to adjust for if you are e.g. There are essentially three core classes, and the book uses percentile-based character creation, which can result in hugely swingy characters. If you are familiar with contemporary OSR-games, a lot will be familiar to you here. (Now that sounds oxymoronic, I know, but you get my drift.) We have HD etc., a custom spellcasting engine with limitations, level-titles, and more. If you're particularly prude, I should also mention that there are exposed boobs in some artworks - while these never struck me as sexualized, I'm also a European, so if you have an issue with that, consider yourself warned.Īll of this notwithstanding, there is plenty of material in the rules that can be adapted rather easily to "modern" OSR-games. On the plus-side, navigating this tome is actually easier than I expected, more structured and certainly easier to reference than many comparable books. The most charming instance for this, in some ways, would be the suggestion to make custom dice via painting over numbers on a d20 - which makes sense, there simply were no weirdo dice like the ones we use in DCC etc. This extends to information design, an incredible density of information in massive textblocks, and a rules-presentation that, while functional, is clearly a product of its time. Let's start with perhaps the reason why you may not enjoy Tékumel: Originally released 1975, the book is, formally, brutally archaic to modern sensibilities. Why now? Well, it turns out that the book is now available as a PoD, and I, too young to ever get my hands on the boxed set (which released in 1975, one year after a self-published iteration), couldn't resist. At the same time, I think that the reasons why I love this may well be the reason why others will absolutely despise it. This love, however, is highly subjective and, to a degree, based on my own non-gaming related interests, and less on a neutral assessment of objective quality. It is more of an examination of why I like Empire of the Petal Throne, and why you may or may not feel the same.īecause *I*, as a person, as opposed to me in my capacity as a reviewer, love Tékumel.
So, to make this abundantly clear - this is NOT the usual review I write for products. In modern days, this'd probably be twice its size. Layout is a two-column b/w-standard, with a couple of b/w-artworks, and LOTS of densely-packed text and tables.
#EMPIRE OF THE PETAL THRONE NAMES PDF#
The hardcover sports the name on the spine, and the pdf can be properly searched, but only sports a very rudimentary 3 bookmarks, making navigation pretty much a chore - I strongly recommend getting print if you plan on spending time with this book. I own both the hardcover, and the pdf-version.
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This book clocks in at 140 pages, 1 page front cover, 2 pages editorial, 2 pages ToC, 3 pages of advertisements, 4 pages left intentionally blank, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 127 pages of content.
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