On Tekumel

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In light of this very disappointing revelation today and from what I have witnessed occurring to others among the less refined aspects of social media, I feel some of you need to hear this.

Those of you who have been hit hard with this news, like I have, and are questioning your connection to Tekumel and The Empire of the Petal Throne, do not let the pressure of those who feel your continued support of this game reflects poorly upon you or that it shines a questionable light upon who you are and force you from continuing to enjoy your game that exists within these properties. Know that I and many, many, others support you. My reason is simple because, and I will paraphrase what Greg Stafford coined long ago with his world of Glorantha, YOUR Tekumel may vary.

Your Tekumel, that you or I and so many others have played in, no matter if it’s been 47 years or 4 days, has transcended far and beyond what Barker had ever intended or could even predict and as such that world that began with him as a child and was published in 1975 no longer exists and has been replaced with what we created. Regardless of what came from today, our world of Tekumel, the one we created, still belongs to all of us and is not reflective of what has transpired.

So yes, be disappointed in this news, feel betrayed, feel disheartened and grieve if you must, never meet your heroes and so on, but do not let YOUR Tekumel die because of this horrible revelation. YOUR Tekumel is not his, but mine and ours. YOUR Tekumel is not reflective of that horrid book, but a wonderfully diverse world.  YOUR Tekumel, like so many other game worlds, is so much stronger than the one who laid its foundation. So please, continue to make YOUR Tekumel better than what its creator left to us. Make YOUR Tekumel vary.

Cheers,

Scott AKA Orcusdorkus

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