![]() ![]() ![]() 1975 TSR edition Įmpire of the Petal Throne influenced Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, who were impressed with the game. ![]() "Empire of the Petal Throne" is a synonym for the Tsolyáni Empire in game.īarker also wrote another game based in Tékumel: a combat-oriented board game, War of Wizards, in 1975. This version is now referred to as "Manuscript edition". Barker first self-published 50 copies of his own role-playing game, Empire of the Petal Throne in 1974, the same year that Dungeons & Dragons was published. He served as adviser to the university's wargaming club, where a club-mate and role-playing game player Michael Mornard showed him Dungeons & Dragons. 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. ![]()
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