Quote from: chirine ba kal;1046759No, I am not, and never have been. I am, and always will be, of The Flame. The Flame illuminates and cleanses, and drives out the dark. I've been doing this since 1976, and I'll keep doing it until I'm dead - and even then, "To Serve The Petal Throne" wll live on, telling people about the Phil I knew and his creation.

Your post is possibly the saddest - and most accurate! - thing I've ever read. I'm sorry that it's true.

A long time ago, a mighty and powerful wizard called a guy a "paladin" because he fought for what he believed in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXgjM0gGLXQ

I still do, Gary, and thank you for the compliment.

...keep up the good fight, Uncle! There's enough people that try to cloak the truth until they manage to hide it even from themselves, but we need more like you:)!

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1046761Agreed. We go on. Off to today's game!

Yay for regular games:D!

Quote from: AsenRG;1046786...keep up the good fight, Uncle! There's enough people that try to cloak the truth until they manage to hide it even from themselves, but we need more like you:)!

Yay for regular games:D!

Yep; I'll keep at it. Somebody's got to do it.

It was a great game; the players used the three-dimensionality of the playing field really well, 'stacking' their attacks on a sea monster by coming in to the attack at different depths. It all worked very well, and we'll be on this same table in a couple of weeks.

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Quote from: Shemek hiTankolel;1046755Well, Chirinie is certainly a mole, but I don't think Chirine is one..

Excellent analysis and comparison BTW.
I had never  seen the parallel before, but now that you point it out it seems obvious.

Shemek.

Chirinie strikes again!

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1046823Yep; I'll keep at it. Somebody's got to do it.

It was a great game; the players used the three-dimensionality of the playing field really well, 'stacking' their attacks on a sea monster by coming in to the attack at different depths. It all worked very well, and we'll be on this same table in a couple of weeks.

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Took a look at your Workbench post today: holy hell, that looks like some serious fun! Your players are damn lucky.

By the way, I forget if I mentioned it here or not, but Jeff Dee and Talzhemir's Kurt Hills Atlas is absolutely fabulous. It's currently on sale, so, if you don't have the PDF and can afford the expense, give it a shot.
(You may also get printed copies of the Atlas through Lulu).

I'm almost done reading the text (it's super dense) and, boy, did they do a fantastic job with it. No wonder it took so much time to finish: much care and attention to details was poured into the project. It's clearly a labor of love.

There's lots of humor, lots of semi-hidden pop-culture references, and a dizzying amount of daily-life details on local cults, food habits, ways to grow things, etc.. More beasties (some quite nasty, like this large wasp/fly thing dating back to pre-Humanspace Tekumel), a plethora of NPCs, plenty of abandoned ruins, local ghost tales, etc. etc. The observations are so specific at times that I'm pretty sure the authors actually spent time in the Kurt Hills. In that regard, M.A.R. Barker would have loved it.

Anyway. I very much recommend it.
There's a couple of positive reviews on the game's page already. It's well deserved.

I have the Kurt Hills Atlas both as a pdf and in print and I'd wholeheartedly agree that the atlas is a labour of love,. There's a metric s*** tonne of information  contained therein and all of it useful in playing in the corresponding area of Tekumel.

The material is well up to modern standards in terms of layout and the writing is very good. The interior art in b/w which is only right for a utility work like this - it's not a catalogue/bestiary and doesn't need loads of colour pictures that would drive the price to atmospheric levels (see Guide to Glorantha for ex).

You could adventure in the area of the Kurt Hills for years using just this book and some floor plans of ruins, clanhouses and the like.

There's also Jeff's Katalal Area Map & Gazetteer which covers a smaller area right at the southern edge of the Atlas but is just as useful.

I'd say buy the Katalal Gazetteer if you are getting into Tekumel gaming, and the Atlas if you are seeking an area ripe with gaming possibilities, and don't have time to do the work yourself. You'll still have to source some small scale maps of places but Dyson's Patreon and various other artists provide access to loads of these for what is very little money.

Interesting confirmation here that
"for the first Undermountain boxed set, the maps are actually Dave Sutherland's maps from his EPT game"

http://odd74.proboards.com/thread/12571/apparently-undermountain-ept
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Quote from: Greentongue;1046901Interesting confirmation here that
"for the first Undermountain boxed set, the maps are actually Dave Sutherland's maps from his EPT game"

http://odd74.proboards.com/thread/12571/apparently-undermountain-ept
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Oh! That's very good information.
I guess I'm gonna have to put my hands on this then!

Quote from: Hermes Serpent;1046882I have the Kurt Hills Atlas both as a pdf and in print and I'd wholeheartedly agree that the atlas is a labour of love,. There's a metric s*** tonne of information  contained therein and all of it useful in playing in the corresponding area of Tekumel.

The material is well up to modern standards in terms of layout and the writing is very good. The interior art in b/w which is only right for a utility work like this - it's not a catalogue/bestiary and doesn't need loads of colour pictures that would drive the price to atmospheric levels (see Guide to Glorantha for ex).

You could adventure in the area of the Kurt Hills for years using just this book and some floor plans of ruins, clanhouses and the like.

There's also Jeff's Katalal Area Map & Gazetteer which covers a smaller area right at the southern edge of the Atlas but is just as useful.

I'd say buy the Katalal Gazetteer if you are getting into Tekumel gaming, and the Atlas if you are seeking an area ripe with gaming possibilities, and don't have time to do the work yourself. You'll still have to source some small scale maps of places but Dyson's Patreon and various other artists provide access to loads of these for what is very little money.

I agree wholeheartedly with all your observations, Hermes.
The Atlas is indeed so good that, really, with relatively little work, you could jump in and start meeting the locals, improv style.

And don't forget that you can also get a printed copy of the large scale color map of the Kurt Hills. I'm lucky to own it. It's gorgeous.

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Quote from: Neshm hiKumala;1046843Took a look at your Workbench post today: holy hell, that looks like some serious fun! Your players are damn lucky.

Thank you! It was some very serious fun, with the players and GM laughing the whole time. The miniature sea life got a lot of laughs, with one player - a druid - choosing one of the jellies as her PC figure at the start of the game.

I should make a small clarification; these are not 'my players', but 'my friends'. This is a game session from one of the campaigns being run by the "Shieldmaidens' Sundays" gaming group at the FLGS. The group is aimed at providing a comfortable environment for women to game in, playing any and all games of all sorts. I do not play in or GM any of these sessions; I am a resource for them. I describe myself as their stagehand, providing access to props and scenery if they want to use them in their games; they, on the other hand, describe me as "their enabler". I'll take that one, thank'ee.

Agreed; Jeff's work is a shining example of what's possible to do with what Phil gave us. Which is why I added it to my archives - Phil would have been using it the moment he'd gotten it.

Great pics!

Quote from: RPGPundit;1047252Great pics!

Thank you! We try to be entertaining, over here in our corner of the place...

Where are there some good EPT "Actual Play" postings?
Are there even any?
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You mean, apart from the blog:)?