This section also covers original skills you had prior to becoming an adventurer and you can also gain more of those as you level. When you level, you have an opportunity to raise stats, which is cool.
You are discouraged from just rerolling one, they want you to keep the set and if you don't like it, throw the whole thing back and re-roll it all. You roll percentile and refer to the table for the bonuses or minuses. There is a section of nonhuman alignment and how they relate to man and it mentions their characteristics are given later (startinng page 48).Ĥ00 Determination of Character: Character traits in Tékumel are Strength, Intelligence, Constitution, Psychic Ability, Dexterity, and Comeliness, recorded in percentile. Alignments are Good and Evil and they clarify that even evil never attack people within their own party, solving some issues that sometimes arise frompeople deciding to play evil characters and then wanting to kill literally everyone. You are looking at Warriors, Priests and Magicians as character classes. The eventual decision of keeping the emperor completely sealed away from everyone is definitely a different method of ruling.ģ00 Character Types: Compared to many RPGs you are going to see a simplified character system. The history itself is interesting, as Tékumel is a world that was once high technology, but then it fell back into barbarism. For me it was honestly just a bit much, but whatever, it's fine. For those with deep knowledge of the world, this might be kind of cool. MAR is clearly in love w/the accent mark, and I'm not sure if there is an external history book that all the bibliographical references spread throughout reference or not. Gary and Dave in establishing MAR's credentials and Dave and MAR start getting your senses ready for the experience of the Petal Throne.Ģ00 The World of Tékumel: Here we have the history of the world. I believe new material has been discussed as a possibility with enough interest.ġ00 Introduction: Foreword by Gary Gygax and Intros by Dave Arneson and MAR Barker do a good job of setting expectations. I thought I would just go through the book by section and then just give an overall review at the end.Īlso, this is a scan of earlier material, as evidenced by the introduction sections, not new material.
He thought it was a good idea to have some reviews from people with no past experience as well. I pointed out that I have zero experience with his writings or earlier game products. I've known Victor Raymond for 22 years as we were friends on ISCABBS in the RPG forum where he was the forum moderator and he asked if I would be interested in writing a review of this reissue of the Empire of the Petal Throne book.
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