Eberron = Tekumel?

[Henry]

People need to remember to please keep from insulting one another, or this thread WILL be closed. (Is it a first that ENWorld leaves something open that RPG.net didn't? I'm unsure.)

Secondly, Tekumel, judging from the praise of those who have seen the setting, is nowhere near "the worst fantasy setting you can imagine." Rather, it's supposedly a well-thought out, intricate setting. I've heard more people compare it to Kingdoms of Kalamar than Spawn of Fashan.

Stannis, was it really you who started that thread?

 

[Flyspeck23]

Seeing the Ebberon is the first. Campaign. Ever. I'd love to run this instant - no, there's nothing to this theory.

So, what this theory says is:
* WotC decided to hold a setting search.
* They received 11,000 ideas and spent untold hours (using salaried employees) sorting these down to one idea.
* They paid the finalists a total of $160,000 for these ideas.
* Then they threw them out, paid someone else for his idea, pretended they hadn't done it (thus losing any value of purchasing a licensed property), didn't make him sign an NDA, and on top of it, allowed him to sell his idea to Guardians of Order.

That's a very reasonable theory. Count me in

 

[Minicol]

This has been on rpg.net and nothingland recently, does anyone know about this? I'm not familiar enough with Tekumel to say myself.


So is there something to this, or is it just the work of someone who was upset about how the setting contest turned out?

Why should I/we care about something like this ?
Tekumel is a dead antique from bygone days. I only know about it from being an oldtimer, and even though I have never seen any of the products of the line in my life. Tekumel = RIP. and if there ever was a good idea coming from it, and Eberron is copying it, then so much the better.

BTW, I don't care about Eberron one way or the other until it has been released, until I can read it (a few months ?) and until WOTC has shown that they really mean to support it (adventures ? GOOD ones for a change ? I mean with a PLOT rather than a list of rooms and monsters ?)

So a quote about two dead ducks is not really of any import to me.
Bye.

 

[JPL]

Cyberzombie, I wasn't being sarcastic when I said it could be a coincidence.

Admittedly, however, since Stannis was already using multiple names to bolster the troll, it wasn't clear to me whether you and the thread-starter were separate people or were playing the same game.

If I have offended, I apologize.

This struck me as the kind of troll that people could easily fall for, given the relative obscurity of Tekumel and the relative newness of Eberron.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Wow... double post... of sorts... sorry.

 

[takyris]

Wait. There aren't Gor-esque scantily clad submissive chicks in Eberron? Not even constructs? Aren't there supposed to be Pleasureforged as a kind of counterpart to the Warforged? No? You're sure?

Alright, count me out. If I can't get scantily clad submissive chicks from Eberron, I'm 'a git me some someplace else.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Make that: triple post...

 

[Greatwyrm]

Just out of curiosity, if I wanted to read a Tekumel book, can anyone recommend which should I start with? If it can be likened to the Playboy Mansion, it can't be that bad.

 

[ConnorSB]

I want to post on this thread before it gets locked. Just for, you know, kicks.

 

[mtbdm]

Tekumel

The first Tekumel novel is "Man of Gold". The novels are great, but the setting material is even better. The Gamescience version of Swords & Glory volume 1 is the most information-dense RPG product EVER. The world's detail is phenomenal. But don't take my word for it, check it out for free at:

www.tekumel.com

all things Tekumel can be accessed from there.

BTW a new Tekumel RPG is due out this summer from Guardians of Order. It is called "Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne". Professor Barker hasn't dealt with TSR/WOTC since the publication of EPT back in the 70s. There will be a D20 version of the new game coming out as well, but it won't be from WOTC. WOTC owns no rights to Tekumel.