They were painted with the then new Heritage water based paints. While searching through 'the old gaming closet' I came across these original 25mm Empire of the Petal Throne miniatures. Original 25mm Empire of the Petal Throne Miniatures.

Tkumel and The Empire of the Petal Throne are the creation of M.A.R. Gain access through this nexus point to a range of 28mm miniatures devoted to all aspects of M.A.R. Artists tend to make it look vaguely like precolonial South America, as their overly busy ornamentation seems to be visual shorthand in the western mind for вЂњculture that is truly alien and wildly divergent.вЂќBeing a range of 28mm scale miniatures for M.A.R. It led to impossibly stratified, priest-ruled cultures where social standing had to be factored into everything, more like precolonial India. ThatвЂ™s the world of the Empire of the Petal Throne, an earth colony that reverted to barbarism when it was sucked out of the planetвЂ™s orbit 40,000 years ago and into a dimension with vastly different physical laws.

Thetekumelproject.blogspot.caDetails in worldbuilding are great but eventually, thereвЂ™s a point of diminishing returns. Do you guys remember Empire of the Petal Throne, or EPT as it was known Seeing as there is a new board, I thought I'd kick off some discussion :-) Regards, Howard Fielding The Tekumel Project. The amazing thing is, when he started writing about his setting, there was no tabletop gaming he first saw it as a vehicle for a novel, then wargaming, then when D&D came into existence, he started running games there that lasted for decades and were published.We make 28mm fantasy miniatures for MAR Barker's Tekumel setting. The interesting part is that as he was a linguist, he created artificial languages for his settings, and with Tolkien, who Barks is often compared to, itвЂ™s challenging to discover whether he started setting-first, or created the setting as a vehicle for his constructed languages. Barker was essentially every single teen dungeon master, myself included, with dozens and dozens of marbled composition books with all kinds of detailed notes on their settings. Barker, a professor of Indian and Middle Eastern studies who was a white Midwesterner who converted to Islam and changed his name to Mohammed Abdul Rashid (before weebs and Japanophilia, the culture nerds tended to obsess over most was the Middle East, India, and Persia, just ask Harold Lamb, John Milius, or even Lovecraft, who gave himself the вЂњArab nameвЂќ of Abdul Azhared and wrote вЂњThe Dream Quest of Unknown KadathвЂќ).

I mean, I donвЂ™t even think I can answer that because the line between the two is blurred: was Barker a genius who created a towering achievement, maybe the most detailed fantasy world of all time. Truly obsessive behavior is kind of blurred sometimes, like for instance, when you hear that Barker had a collection of over 2,000+ miniatures he personally created for Empire of the Petal Throne (rather like how sometimes the line between collecting and hoarding is vague). All while reading about Barker, you ask one question: does he care a lot and is he detailed, or is this unhealthy compulsion or obsessiveness? The line between being detailed and вЂњcaring a lotвЂќ vs.

Empire Of The Petal Throne Miniatures