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Legions Of The Petal Throne
''Legions of the Petal Throne'' is a set of combat rules for large-scale wargaming published by TSR in 1977. The rules' setting is based on TSR's role-playing game ''Empire of the Petal Throne''. Publication history In 1975, TSR published M.A.R. Barker's fantasy role-playing game ''Empire of the Petal Throne'', set in the land of Tékumel. In his 2014 book ''Designers & Dragons'', Shannon Appelcline noted that after publishing ''Empire of the Petal Throne'', TSR "offered no roleplaying support for Tékumel except in ''Dragon'' magazine, though they did put out one more Tékumel strategy game, the miniatures-based ''Legion of the Petal Throne'' (1977)." ''Legions of the Petal Throne'' is a set of rules designed by Dave Sutherland that can be used for army-sized combat using military figurines. Basic combat rules are given, using a typical wargaming scale of 1:100. A more detailed and complex set of rules, including the use of magic, is also included. Reception In the October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSR (company)
TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company, best known as the original publisher of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''). Its earliest incarnation, Tactical Studies Rules, was founded in October 1973 by Gary Gygax and Don Kaye. Gygax had been unable to find a publisher for ''D&D'', a new type of game he and Dave Arneson were co-developing, so founded the new company with Kaye to self-publish their products. Needing financing to bring their new game to market, Gygax and Kaye brought in Brian Blume in December as an equal partner. ''Dungeons & Dragons'' is generally considered the first tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), and established the genre. When Kaye died suddenly in 1975, the Tactical Studies Rules partnership restructured into TSR Hobbies, Inc. and accepted investment from Blume's father Melvin. With the popular ''D&D'' as its main product, TSR Hobbies became a major force in the games industry by the late 1970s. Melvin Blume eventually transferred his shares to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century, it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animations and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror fiction, horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that emulate Earth, but with a sense of otherness. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy consists of works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from ancient mythology, myths and legends to many recent and popular works. Traits Most fantasy uses magic (paranormal), magic or other supernatural elements as a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miniatures Wargame
Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming in which military units are represented by miniature physical models on a model battlefield. The use of physical models to represent military units is in contrast to other tabletop wargames that use abstract pieces such as counters or blocks, or computer wargames which use virtual models. The primary benefit of using models is aesthetics, though in certain wargames the size and shape of the models can have practical consequences on how the match plays out. Miniature wargaming is typically a recreational form of wargaming because issues concerning scale can compromise realism too much for most serious military applications. A historical exception to this is naval wargaming before the advent of computers. Overview A miniature wargame is played with miniature models of soldiers, artillery, and vehicles on a model of a battlefield. The benefit of using models as opposed to abstract pieces is primarily an aesthetic one. Models offer a vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David C
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and Lyre, harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges David and Jonathan, a notably close friendship with Jonathan (1 Samuel), Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of History of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Of The Petal Throne
''Empire of the Petal Throne'' is a fantasy role-playing game designed by M. A. R. Barker, based on his Tékumel fictional universe. It was self-published in 1974, then published by TSR, Inc. in 1975. It was one of the first tabletop role-playing games, along with ''Dungeons & Dragons'', and was the first published RPG game setting. Over the subsequent thirty years, several new games were published based on the Tékumel setting, but to date none have met with commercial success. While published as fantasy, the game is sometimes classified as science fantasy or, debatably, as science fiction. History Origin University of Minnesota professor M. A. R. Barker, a scholar of ancient languages, had spent decades crafting a fantasy world called Tékumel, writing thousands of pages of histories, describing its culture, and even constructing its languages. He served as adviser to the university's wargaming club, where a club-mate and role-playing game player Michael Mornard showed hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tékumel
''Tékumel'' is a fantasy world created by American linguist and writer M. A. R. Barker over the course of several decades from around 1940. In this imaginary world, huge, tradition-bound empires with medieval levels of technology vie for control using magic, large standing armies, and ancient technological devices. In time, Barker created the tabletop role-playing game ''Empire of the Petal Throne'', set in the Tékumel universe, initially self publishing it in 1974. Later, Barker wrote a series of five novels set in Tékumel, beginning with ''The Man of Gold (novel), The Man of Gold'', first published by DAW Books in 1984. Sources Barker, like the better-known J. R. R. Tolkien, considered not just the creation of a fantasy world but also an in-depth development of the societies and languages of the world. In other words, the setting also provided a context for Barker's constructed languages which were developed in parallel from the mid-to-late 1940s, long before the mass-market ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Hat Productions
Evil Hat Productions is a company that produces role-playing games and other tabletop games. Chief among them is the free indie RPG, ''Fate'', which has won numerous awards. History Fred Hicks had been working with Lydia Leong, Rob Donoghue, and others to run LARPs at AmberCon NorthWest starting in 1999, and came up with the name Evil Hat for themselves. While on a trip to Lake Tahoe, friends Hicks and Donoghue developed a new game based on a conversation about running another ''Amber'' game and fixing some problems with ''FUDGE''; the result was ''Fate'' which Hicks and Donoghue would publish under the name Evil Hat. Donoghue and Hicks released a complete first-edition of ''Fate'' through Yahoo! Groups (January 2003) then cleaned up the technical writing and slightly polished the system for a second edition (August 2003). Hicks and Donoghue began work on the licensed '' Dresden Files Roleplaying Game'' in 2004, but publication was held up because they decided to use ''Spir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Dwarf (magazine)
''White Dwarf'' is a magazine published by British games manufacturer Games Workshop, which has long served as a promotions and advertising platform for Games Workshop and Citadel Miniatures products. During the first ten years of its publication, it covered a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing games (RPGs) and board games, particularly the role playing games ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' (''AD&D''), '' Call of Cthulhu'', ''RuneQuest'' and '' Traveller''. These games were all published by other games companies and distributed in the United Kingdom by Games Workshop stores. The magazine underwent a major change in style and content in the late 1980s. It is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop. History 1975: ''Owl and Weasel'' to ''White Dwarf'' Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone initially produced a newsletter called ''Owl and Weasel'', which ran for twenty-five issues from February 1975 before it evolved into '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-known products are ''Warhammer Age of Sigmar'' and ''Warhammer 40,000''. Founded in 1975 by John Peake (game designer), John Peake, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson (UK), Steve Jackson, Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, nine men's morris and Go (board game), Go. It later became an importer of the U.S. role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'', and then a publisher of wargames and role-playing games in its own right, expanding from a bedroom mail-order company in the process. It expanded into Europe, the US, Canada, and Australia in the early 1990s. All UK-based operations were relocated to the current headquarters in Lenton, Nottingham in 1997. It started promoting games associated with The Lord of the Rings (film series), ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy in 2001. It al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qadardalikoi
''Qadardalikoi'' is a fantasy miniatures wargame published by Tékumel Games in 1983. Gameplay ''Qadardalikoi'' is a game which involves the Armies of the Five Empires, as well the armies of the other non-human races, and presents tactical and strategic information. The rules are much more detailed than the two earlier Tekumel miniature rules sets: ''Legions of the Petal Throne'' and '' Missum!''. History Originally published by Tékumel Games in 1983, and republished it in 1984. It was later republished by Tita's House of Games in 1998. Reception Frederick Paul Kiesche III reviewed ''Qadardalikoi'' in ''Space Gamer'' No. 71. Kiesche commented that "''Qadardalikoi'' is ..a mixed blessing to '' EPT'' RPGers. Most of the information pertains to miniatures, and will most likely be useless. However, there is much useful stuff for those who are willing to work a little." See also * ''Legions of the Petal Throne'', a 1975 Tékumel miniatures wargame * ''The Armies of Tékumel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Armies Of Tékumel
''The Armies of Tékumel'' is a series of miniatures wargame army supplements, written by M. A. R. Barker for the fantasy world of Tékumel, designed to be used with the ''Empire of the Petal Throne'' miniatures rules '' Qadardalikoi'', and published between 1978 and 1998. History The six volumes are: * ''The Armies of Tékumel'', Volume I: Tsolyánu, M. A. R. Barker, published 1978, 1981, 1997. * ''The Armies of Tékumel'', Volume II: Yan Kor and Allies, M. A. R. Barker, 1981, 1997. * ''The Armies of Tékumel'', Volume III: Mu'ugalavyá, M. A. R. Barker, 1983, 1997. * ''The Armies of Tékumel'', Volume IV: Salarvya, M. A. R. Barker, 1983, 1997. * ''The Armies of Tékumel'', Volume V: Livyanu and Tsolei, M. A. R. Barker, 1983, 1997. * ''The Armies of Tékumel'', Volume VI: Shenyu, M. A. R. Barker & Robert Brynildson, 1998. Reception Frederick Paul Kiesche III reviewed ''The Armies of Tékumel'' in ''Space Gamer'' No. 71. Kiesche commented that "This can be a useful item if you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EPT Miniatures
''EPT Miniatures'' is a range of Tékumel miniatures produced by Tékumel Games in 1983. Contents With figures by sculptors Bill Murray, Tom Myer, Jeff Barry, and Brian Apple, ''EPT Miniatures'' was a full line of miniatures, including military figures representing the Tsolyani, Yan Koryani and Mu'Uglavyani, as well as some friendly and unfriendly nonhumans, other creatures, and more. History ''EPT Miniatures'' is one many miniatures series produced for Tekumel wargaming, for use with the three rules sets available; ''Legions of the Petal Throne'' (1975), Missúm! (1978), and ''Qadardalikoi'', 1983. A supporting set of army lists, ''The Armies of Tékumel'' were produced 1978-1998, and a painting guide, Miniatures from MAR Barker's World of Tékumel in 1982. Reception Frederick Paul Kiesche III reviewed ''EPT Miniatures'' in ''Space Gamer'' No. 71. Kiesche commented that "Tekumel lends itself to beautiful miniatures, what with the elaborate costumes worn by the priests and prie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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