The Empire of The Petal Throne is a role-playing game system created by Professor M. A. R. Barker. It was published to provide a more "realistic" alternative to the Tolkien-flavored RPGs which arose from Dungeons & Dragons/Chainmail miniatures (wargaming) rules. Tekumel's history, however, goes back several decades, as Barker had supposedly been developing it since his childhood. A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game where players assume the roles of fictional characters via role-playing. ... Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker is a retired professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies who has written several fantasy novels under the pen name M. A. R. Barker. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ... Wargaming can be one of number of ways of exploring the effects of warfare without actual combat. ...
Tekumel is the game world, based on India, Middle Eastern, Egyptian and Meso-American mythology, rather than the overused European mythologies. Huge empires with medieval levels of technology vie with each other with magic, large standing legions, and ancient technological devices.
Tékumel: Empire of the PetalThrone is a fantasy world created by Professor Muhammad Abd-el-Rahman Barker over the course of several decades.
In this imaginary world, huge empires with medieval levels of technology vie for control using magic, large standing armies, and ancient technological devices.
It brought a level of detail and quality to the campaign setting which had previously been unknown in the RPG industry, and could be considered a turning point away from the tactical roots of RPGs.
Empire of the PetalThrone, published in 1975 by TSR, Inc.
Tékumel: Empire of the PetalThrone, published in 2005 by Guardians of Order.
Barker has also written five novels set in the world of Tékumel: Man of Gold and Flamesong were published by Daw Books in the 1984 and 1985, respectively.
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