As a result, the product was more expensive and thus less profitable. They had agreed to pay a "finders fee" on sales in addition to royalties as well as to certain expensive overrides. TSR was locked into a deal that made the financial end of the game unpalatable to them.
While published as fantasy, the game is sometimes classified as science fantasy or, debatably, as science fiction. Over the subsequent thirty years several new games based on the Tékumel setting were published, but to date none have met with commercial success.
The game was the subject of articles in early issues of Dragon Magazine, but factors including inconsistent support from TSR led to its decline in popularity. Bringing a level of detail and quality to the concept of a campaign setting which had previously been unknown in the nascent RPG industry's publications it could be considered a qualitative reimagining, less heavily entrenched in the tactical mass-combat, wargaming roots of D&D. Barker's roleplaying game and setting as a standalone game under the title of The Empire of the Petal Throne (a synonym for the Tsolyáni Empire), rather than as a "supplement" to the original D&D rules. In 1975, Tactical Studies Rules, Inc., the publishers of Dungeons & Dragons, published M. Barker, based on his Tékumel fictional universe, and first published in 1975 by TSR, Inc. For the game produced by Guardians of Order, see Tékumel: Empire of the Petal Throne.Įmpire of the Petal Throne is a fantasy role-playing game designed by M.
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