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Originally Posted by rust
Empire of the Petal Throne. I would have loved to play it, and still love to
read it, but all the potential players took a look at the names, shook their
heads and said that it was absolutely impossible to pronounce them - and
unfortunately I never was in a mood to "rename" an entire RPG.
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Yeah - Tekumel's one of those games that rates very highly amongst GMs and "reader"-type players, but is just like a completely foreign language to the casual player. It's a shame, cos it has some cool ideas, but just gets a bit too inaccessible sometimes without an arch & anth or comparative linguistics degree.
About the only way I've ever been able to get players to play it is by using the "original" scenario premise, way back from TSR times - that the PCs are a bunch of PCs from Relatively Comprehensible Stereotypical Fantasy Land, who've just got off the boat in Jakalla harbour. That way it's *okay* they can't understand anything that's going on!
I do enjoy reading bits of it from time to time though. Cool GM source material. I've also toyed with the idea of "pulping" up a Tekumel campaign, just never got around to it. Concept: it's the mid 1930s, somewhere in central America, and an Indiana Jones clone and sidekicks are being pursued into some Strange Forbidding Ruins by a bunch of Nazi occultists and - kapla! - they suddenly find themselves in some equally strange ruin on Tekumel somewhere. The Nazi Occultist Bad Guy finds himself a real hit with the local politicos, and Indy tries to work out what the heck he can do to stop the rot and get his gang back home.
Cheers!
Sarah