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The best advice for using and enjoying the fantastical creations of Tékumel without hitching your wagon to Barker's vile ideology comes, ironically enough, from the man himself: "You have just bought MY Tékumel. Now make it YOUR Tékumel" - Swords & Glory Vol. 1 The Tékumel Sourcebook, 1983

Two small selections from the rather ridiculous buckets of dice I seem to have accumulated: one of many Gamescience sets; and the latest addition, to go with my black and green Hero 5th edition dice.

When you're asking about classes, which RPG are you talking about? Most RPGs don't even have them.

Hey, maybe not your god…

Around £15,000 is the number I noted down from somewhere when I was reading up on the period for a Colonial Gothic adventure. I think that might have included cannon, however.

Any update on the list being published? or have I just overlooked it?

That depends on the individual. For some people it can be a major issue having to read and comprehend material like that, especially on demand. In most cases that's not the problem, of course, but it's important to consider that not everyone might be letting you down because they're busy or lazy.

Considering that most people voting think they stress the second syllable it's odd that everyone I've heard (talking about the gamers, not the historical troops) stresses the first, regardless of their nationality.

To a degree it depends on the game: Hero Designer is very useful indeed for creating characters if we're playing Champions, but for something like Fudge a character generator is largely superfluous. For a long time now my scattered group has been gaming via video call (Jitsi these days, since...

And one using Fudge.

Forgotten Futures - The Scientific Romance Roleplaying Game is not only based on various (mainly Victorian and Edwardian) works of fiction, it also includes the novels and short stories themselves. There's even a worldbook for Victorian melodrama. Each of the eleven worldbooks adapts the...

A lot of people don't agree that he is. One argument against the idea is that, compared to known replicates, he's weak and outclassed. The only reason he makes it to the end of the film is because Roy let him live.

Can't recall where I found this or who was responsible for it, I'm afraid, but this handy chart compares the lethality of MSPE, Top Secret and Espionage (later revised as Danger International):

The main thing DramaSystem killed for me was any desire to play DramaSystem ever again.

Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes: Guns will seriously mess you up. So deadly that the game introduced the "Megadeath Luck Saving Roll" in an attempt to not just murder everyone.

There was very nearly a Tékumel version of Dungeon! called Quest. Half a dozen prototypes were apparently made, but TSR eventually decided not to publish it.