What is Empire of the Petal Throne?

>>50019886
It's dead

>>50019886
Unfortunately Tekumel is pretty dead as a setting. There's a big ass wiki for it though, just look up Tekumel. I actually think it's a pretty cool setting myself

>>50019886
EPT is dead because it's bad. Tekumel is a fucking awesome setting and I use it pretty frequently.

>>50021786
Is there any place to download PDFs of the books?

>>50022208
bump

>>50022208
OSR Trove.

Swords of the Petal Throne: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4qCWY8UnLrcM3VVX2c2WlhVU3M/view

>>50023678
Are you sure? I didn't see any in there.

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>>50019886
It was developed by a linguistics professor who, like Tolkien, invented the languages and cultures first and then created a world to put them in. The basic premise is that humanity had an interstellar civilization with lots of colonies but it collapsed; the people on Tekumel are medieval tech-level survivors of that collapse. The fantasy monsters are actually the original alien inhabitants of the planet (and therefore tend to be more things like intelligent fungus lobsters instead of orcs, griffins, etc). The mainline human cultures draw heavily from Indian, Mayan, and Middle Eastern influences rather than the Western European sources in Dungeons and Dragons.

If nothing else, reading through some of the books is a great look at a detailed, comprehensive world building exercise that produced something totally different from 99% of everything else out there.

>>50027738
TSR -> OD&D -> Modules