A question for everyone, if I may...

Opaopajr · November 03, 2017, 01:40:12 PM

What would a Tekumel tour bus guide look like?

What would be the Tourist Attraction Maps look like?

This could be fun, like a safari!

Shawn Driscoll · November 03, 2017, 01:53:35 PM

Don't play Tekumel with AD&D 3+ players.

DavetheLost · November 03, 2017, 02:29:38 PM

I would love to play in one of your Tekumel games, or anyone else's tekumel games for that matter. I don't give a hoot what rules system is in use as long as I can tell you what I want to do and have you tell me what dice I need to roll or what happens. But I am one of those crazy "role-players", the ones who are looking for a game of action and adventure and if my character dies because I did something stupid, well so be it.

If the players insist on playing 5e D&D rules for their adventure on Tekumel let the co-GM handle the rules. Just run Tekumel the way you run Tekumel and let the dice fall where they may.

Bren · November 03, 2017, 09:01:41 PM

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1005293...you'd have to ask Gronan about it, as I'm simply too close to it...

But can I trust him. He still hasn't paid his beer bar tab.

Gronan of Simmerya · November 03, 2017, 09:22:22 PM

Quote from: Bren;1005531But can I trust him.

I sure as hell wouldn't.

Quote from: Bren;1005531He still hasn't paid his beer bar tab.

Show up at GaryCon, ya hoser!

Bren · November 03, 2017, 09:58:49 PM

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1005535Show up at GaryCon, ya hoser!

Hmmm....March in Wisconsin. Perhaps.

chirine ba kal · November 04, 2017, 04:57:43 PM

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1005322He either fears his fate too much,
Or his reward is small,
Who does not dare to take the chance
To win or lose it all.

You taught me that.

Yep. I'll get through this, and we'll see what happens afterwards.

chirine ba kal · November 04, 2017, 05:03:04 PM

Quote from: Willie the Duck;1005350Me saying, "that must really suck, sorry man," probably doesn't help, but it's what I got. At least you are in good company, if the dead eyed glare Harrison Ford gives every time an interviewer brings up Han Solo, or all the 'I just wanted to sing Howling Wolf songs with my buddies' -like quotes attributed to Mick Jagger. At least you actually like Tekumel, even if you'd rather be doing something else.

Understood, and thank you for your kind words! I lnow that you mean; I get asked the very same questions every time I get interviewed, and I've now got stock answers for all of them. It's boring as hell.

I do enjoy Tekumel, especially when it's set against it's ancestors like Barsoom and Ancient Egypt. The vast majority of gamers I've deal with over the years are not interests in any of that; they want to go down in the dungeon and get the XP, and that's it.

chirine ba kal · November 04, 2017, 05:04:40 PM

Quote from: GameDaddy;1005357That's awesome! "I Don't really play D&D, I play these other games that were around before D&D..."

Been on an Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom kick myself the last few years. Bought some 1/72 U.S. Cavalry last year so I could do up a full Cavalry Troop for use in Barsoom games, and was also working on making Tharks using wire and green stuff, however my miniatures modeling skills are somewhat lacking for the task at hand. Still though, will probably have the troopers painted before the end of the year as my painting bench is getting empty.

Thank you! A lot of D & D people I meet have no idea who 'Gary' and 'Dave' might have been. let alone 'Phil'.

Seen the tharks from Bronze Age? Wooo hooo!

chirine ba kal · November 04, 2017, 05:08:45 PM

Quote from: Opaopajr;1005409What would a Tekumel tour bus guide look like? What would be the Tourist Attraction Maps look like? This could be fun, like a safari!

I did this for one of my games. Photos on my Photobucket page; I think in the 'Holiday Game' album.

chirine ba kal · November 04, 2017, 05:10:19 PM

Quote from: DavetheLost;1005425I would love to play in one of your Tekumel games, or anyone else's tekumel games for that matter. I don't give a hoot what rules system is in use as long as I can tell you what I want to do and have you tell me what dice I need to roll or what happens. But I am one of those crazy "role-players", the ones who are looking for a game of action and adventure and if my character dies because I did something stupid, well so be it.

If the players insist on playing 5e D&D rules for their adventure on Tekumel let the co-GM handle the rules. Just run Tekumel the way you run Tekumel and let the dice fall where they may.

Good advice! That's the way I'm going to do this, and we'll see what happens; it's the way I've always played, and what I am reasonably good at.

Voros · November 05, 2017, 03:42:49 AM

As Estar and others have said you could strip down and tweak 5e for EPT without too much trouble. Surprised no one has done a 5e hack for EPT yet. I do know someone did a 3e hack so it is probably just a matter of time til someone sits down and does the work.

AsenRG · November 05, 2017, 03:49:38 AM

Quote from: Voros;1005756As Estar and others have said you could strip down and tweak 5e for EPT without too much trouble. Surprised no one has done a 5e hack for EPT yet. I do know someone did a 3e hack so it is probably just a matter of time til someone sits down and does the work.

I'd bet the Foundation has something to do with it;).

chirine ba kal · November 05, 2017, 11:53:40 AM

Quote from: Voros;1005756As Estar and others have said you could strip down and tweak 5e for EPT without too much trouble. Surprised no one has done a 5e hack for EPT yet. I do know someone did a 3e hack so it is probably just a matter of time til someone sits down and does the work.

Good idea, but way outside my skill set. I have, as noted, no time in the barrel with D & D or other RPGs, so I would not be the one to do this.

RPGPundit · November 07, 2017, 05:38:19 PM

I figure you know all this already Chirine, but I would worry less about the intro and more about how you start out the game. And with a setting as weird and not easily approachable as Tekumel, you should probably start out small. Have the PCs as people of some small village/town or somewhere similarly limited in scope, and tell them step-by-step about what their characters would know, would see, would understand of the world as you go along playing in it, and you slowly expand the size of the game.