Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal - part II

Originally Posted by altfritz

Think "Revenge of the 47 Ronin" transplanted on Tekumel...

Howard

They're going to attack a bureaucrat over an inept, drunken superior who didn't even manage to kill said bureaucrat when he was unarmed?

Originally Posted by altfritz

And speaking of General Karin Missum, he features prominently in a scenario I am developing called "The Vengeance of Grai". Here is the flame-happy General in party mode: :-)

https://goo.gl/images/SLnq4l

The scenario will take place one evening in his pleasure palace in the suburbs north of Bey Su. Think "Revenge of the 47 Ronin" transplanted on Tekumel...

Howard

That sounds like good fun.

I'm currently putting together a less-ambitious one-shot, where my players would wake up as amnesic lab-experiments, deep inside a Ksarul temple. I'm not quite certain where that secret temple would be at this point: I'm considering putting it on some other plane, or somewhere on Tekumel prime itself, maybe near or under the city of Hmakuyal.

Speaking of which, Lord Chirine, did you ever visit Hmakuyal in your many adventures? If yes, do you remember anything specific about that ruined city? I know there's some information about those ruins in the Blue Room archives (which I have tracked down), but perhaps do you have something specific to recount?

Originally Posted by Zirunel

Speaking of republican Rome, it occurs to me that if you were to set an RPG in the late Roman republic, or maybe the early empire, the play and the interpersonal dynamics would be much like playing in Tsolyanu. Gens instead of clan, family instead of lineage, not so much communal living maybe, so the names would change and there'd be some difference in the details for sure, but if you were a citizen of the Republic, the ways you'd game your gens, family, the status issues, the opportunities or lack of them, the in-game interactions, could all be much like playing a citizen of Tsolyanu.

Despite the Keshchal plumes and Tekumelani design hoo-hah, Tsolyanu probably shares more with "western" civilizations than it does with, say, your average preclassic or late classic Mayan kingdom.

Agreed. The more one knows about historical cultures and societies, I think it gets easier and easier to run Tekumel the way Phil did.

Originally Posted by altfritz

The Five Empires on our part of Tekumel are many times more sophisticated than any Meso-American culture; in engineering skill, education, clothing, agriculture, religion, pretty much everything. Imperial China is sophisticated enough, but the details are not quite right. I do like the movie "The Curse of the Golden Flower" as a great representation of Palace Intrigue.

https://youtu.be/QBFi6LqYswI

Agreed! Great movie!!!

Originally Posted by altfritz

And speaking of General Karin Missum, he features prominently in a scenario I am developing called "The Vengeance of Grai". Here is the flame-happy General in party mode: :-)

https://goo.gl/images/SLnq4l

The scenario will take place one evening in his pleasure palace in the suburbs north of Bey Su. Think "Revenge of the 47 Ronin" transplanted on Tekumel...

Howard

I'm sorry; the link sends me to a page about Alex Bates' 'Forge of Ice' "Sleazy Merchant and Drowzy Sentries"; not that I mind, as it's a great set!

Great scenario, though. Have you run it past Bob?