Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal - part II

Originally Posted by altfritz

Personally, I treat Feshenga as crocodiles. IIRC the rules state they attack on sight, but to me that is a very simplistic, even juvenile, way of running things. In MY TEKUMEL they swim about just like Nile crocodiles or Australian Salties do in the present day. They like to lie on the banks of the rivers and soak up the sun, the lazy beasts!

Agreed; they are sapient, and not stupid. They make for very formidable foes, if you rile them up. Miniatures by Reaper, but I don't know if you can still get them.

Originally Posted by altfritz

I also freely add other creatures. As everything I do is more miniature based and more wargame than RPG, I like to have miniatures for everything including the physical manifestations of spells. Barzoomian creatures and D&D monsters - many of which often seem like imitations of, or inspired by, Tekumel monsters. (Just as many Tekumel monsters are inspired by earlier D&D creatures.) Call of Cthulhu also provides many flora as well as fauna. :-)

Same here. Phil, Dave, and Gary loved thios kind of thing, and freely cross-pollinated amongst their three campaigns. Which gave me fits, I can tell you; keeping up with the miniatures for what we ran into was a full-time job.

Originally Posted by altfritz

I should add that the Dodo, is alive and well on MY TEKUMEL. Several species of, actually, b/c of different manufacturers making miniatures in different sizes! The Freebooter Dodos are what the Tsolyani call the Kaika. :-)

YMMV.

Wonderful! Phil would have loved it!!!

Thank you all for the responses! This is exactly why this thread is so good.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

The native Tekumelyani sea life is fiercer and more deadly than any Terran creatures.

I can imagine. I think of the Tekumelyani sea life as being like those critters in Phantom Menace, when Obi Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn take a trip under the waves. "There's always a bigger fish."

Cool.

Originally Posted by altfritz

Personally, I treat Feshenga as crocodiles. IIRC the rules state they attack on sight, but to me that is a very simplistic, even juvenile, way of running things. In MY TEKUMEL they swim about just like Nile crocodiles or Australian Salties do in the present day. They like to lie on the banks of the rivers and soak up the sun, the lazy beasts!

Perfect. I never have a creature attack, just because. Never made sense to me either.
In mine too. The Feshenga are great ambush predators for those foolish enough to take a leisurely walk by the river bank and not pay attention to what's going on. They are lazy aren't they?

Originally Posted by altfritz

I also freely add other creatures. As everything I do is more miniature based and more wargame than RPG, I like to have miniatures for everything including the physical manifestations of spells. Barzoomian creatures and D&D monsters - many of which often seem like imitations of, or inspired by, Tekumel monsters. (Just as many Tekumel monsters are inspired by earlier D&D creatures.) Call of Cthulhu also provides many flora as well as fauna. :-)

No question about this. I also have done the same over the years. "My Tekumel" has Ankhegs, Bullettes, Carrion Crawlers, and Gibbering Mouthers, to name just a few. If it feels right for Tekumel I will include it.
CoC has been an endless source of inspiration for me. Even the Pariah Gods in "My Tekumel" fear the Great Old Ones, and in the rare case when their servants manifest upon the Tekumel Plane of Reality bad things happen.

Originally Posted by altfritz

I should add that the Dodo, is alive and well on MY TEKUMEL. Several species of, actually, b/c of different manufacturers making miniatures in different sizes! The Freebooter Dodos are what the Tsolyani call the Kaika. :-)
YMMV.

And so they should be! As should the Tasmanian Tiger, Carrier Pigeon, etc.


Shemek

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

And I have both, courtesy of IKEA and the Coca-Cola Company. I'll bring them, next Saturday.

Oh, Oh, can I come too? I'll make the trip from Pechano.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

I personally don't know, never having been chased by them in my long career. Having said that, given that the Lords of Humanspace were Not Nice People, and given to indulging themselves in the slightest whims, it would not surprise me that some of this fauna made it to some jaded lord's garden menagerie - and that the things eventually got loose. Phil himself noted that Tekumel is a big planet, with lots of room - and that while we don't have horses in the Five Empires, they were found over on the other side of the planet by the party at one point. See also my reply to Gronan, which reflects years of gamin with Phil.

This is what I felt was the siuation.
I have always thought of the Lords of Humanspace like the Harkonnens from Dune, but with the volume set to 11. It is precisely for this reason that I thought that there might be descendants of other types of Terran creatures, which were not described in the Sourcebooks and other writings. I was just curious if you had encountered them with Phil.
I know in that in "My Tekumel" there are the descendants of the crocs, in out of the way places where the hunting is good. And I can tell you that they are damn big brutes! If any Terran creature could survive Tekumel's indigenous flora and fauna it would be a crocodile or shark, IMO.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Agreed; they are sapient, and not stupid. They make for very formidable foes, if you rile them up. Miniatures by Reaper, but I don't know if you can still get them.

Do Reaper make a miniature that is a good proxy for the Feshenga?

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

If any Terran creature could survive Tekumel's indigenous flora and fauna it would be a crocodile or shark, IMO.

Or humans.