UNIgames Publishes Béthorm: the Plane of Tékumel RPG

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Jeff

Bethorm cover UNIgames is pleased to announce the release of the PDF edition of Béthorm: the Plane of Tékumel RPG!

Produced under an agreement with the Tékumel Foundation, Béthorm revives the first complete tabletop RPG setting ever published, in TSR Hobbies’ Empire of the Petal Throne RPG (1975).

Far in the future, humans and their alien allies conquer and terraform the lush planet Tékumel. A disaster casts Tékumel’s star system into a pocket dimension. Cut off from Humanspace, civilizations rise and fall as the descendants revert to savagery – while also mastering the forces of magic which operate in Tékumel’s new universe. Become a member of a secret society within your temple, or a sorcerer mastering ancient spells. Be a diplomat engaged in foreign intrigue, a wealthy bravo seeking adventure, a scholar studying secrets of the ancient past… Tékumel offers a whole world of exotic adventures!

Béthorm: the Plane of Tékumel RPG features over 100 illustrations.

UNIgames is a Texas-based RPG publisher, founded in 2000 by classic AD&D artist Jeff Dee. Visit their web site at http://www.unigames.us

Tékumel Foundation’s mission is to encourage, support and protect the literary works and all related products and activities surrounding Professor M.A.R. Barker’s world of Tékumel and the Empire of the Petal Throne. The Foundation was formed in 2008 as a nonprofit corporation under Minnesota Statute 317A, as is appropriate for public charities and private foundations, under IRS Code sections 501©(3) or 509(a). Visit their web site at http://tekumelfoundation.org/

About Jeff

Jeff Dee has worked in the gaming industry for over 25 years. His artwork appeared in numerous games and magazines, including TSR's Deities and Demigods (as well as many AD&D modules and other early TSR products), Villains & Vigilantes, adventures for the Star Wars RPG from West End Games, and others. He co-designed Villains & Vigilantes, TWERPS (The World's Easiest Role-Playing System) from Gamescience, and Pocket Universe from UNIgames. Jeff has also worked in the computer games industry on games such as Ultima VI, Master of Orion, Master of Magic, and Wing Commander. He was the art director on Ultima VII, and the lead game designer on The Sims: Castaway Stories. Jeff currently works as a game design consultant, and operates two paper game publishing companies: Monkey House Games with V&V co-creator Jack Herman, and UNIgames with partner Talzhemir Mrr. UNIgames’ latest product is ‘Cavemaster’, the Stonepunk RPG. Cavemaster was the winner of the 2013 Three Castles Design Award.
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