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 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) was the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ... 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. ... This article is about the military exercise and civilian hobby. ...

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.

The current version of Tekumel uses a variation of the tri-stat RPG system. Tri-Stat dX is a generic role-playing game system developed and published by Guardians of Order in 2003. ...

External links

• http://www.tekumel.com/
• Tekumel RPG website
• tri-stat Wiki