About Jeff Dee

Jeff Dee has worked in the gaming industry for over 25 years. His artwork has 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 from Fantasy Games Unlimited, 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.

Legions of Tekumel: The Elites Kickstarter Project

Check out this Kickstarter campaign for a new era of Tékumel licensed miniatures. This initial offering of miniatures represent some of the elite forces of the Five Empires, and includes several non-human sets, some of which have not be available since the early 1980s.

The core rewards for this project are digital STL files for 3D printing. There is also an option to order physical, print on demand figures as a campaign add on.

This project runs until November 16 2023 at 12:00 AM CST.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legionsoftekumel/legions-of-tekumel-the-elites-stl-files

UNIgames Statement Regarding MAR Barker News

We were horrified and angered to learn that MAR Barker, the creator of Tekumel, was a closet racist who wrote a pro-Nazi novel under a pseudonym and was on the editorial board of a pseudoscientific neo-Nazi Holocaust-denying publication.

In light of these revelations, we have decided to scrub that man’s name from the credits of our Tekumel products. We will also add a disclaimer to the Bethorm rulebook, confronting and repudiating his unacceptable opinions. Further, we are in contractual negotiations with the Tekumel Foundation to separate his name from the copyright to our works. That last point is complicated by their legal agreements with his spouse, and may take an as-yet unknown amount of time.

We beg our supporters patience while we work through the necessary negotiations and editing. As each of our products is re-released with these changes, we will let you all know.

Update 10/1/2023

Our request not to copyright Barker has unfortunately been denied. Now that we have that final answer, we will move forward asap with the other changes to our products in this line that we previously announced. Thank you for your patience and support.

The Tekumel Foundation Board of Directors statement on “Serpent’s Walk”

The Tekumel Foundation Board of Directors wants to acknowledge that our research shows Professor M.A.R. Barker wrote *Serpent’s Walk*, an anti-Semitic novel that was published under a pseudonym in 1991. We have done our due diligence to ascertain the facts regarding *Serpent’s Walk * and Professor Barker’s affiliation with *The Journal of Historical Review* and we believe this needs to be recognized as part of Professor Barker’s past. While nobody today is responsible for the odious views Professor Barker presented in *Serpent’s Walk*, we are responsible for recognizing this book as part of his legacy.

That this acknowledgment was not done earlier was and is a mistake, and we apologize for that. We have been reaching out to several Jewish organizations to express our outrage over our findings and make our priority to work with them through this issue.

What Professor Barker did was wrong and forever tarnished his creative and academic legacy. As stewards of the world of Tekumel, we reject and repudiate *Serpent’s Walk* and everything it stands for and all other anti-Semitic activity Professor Barker was involved with.

The Tekumel Foundation has never been involved with or profited from the publication, distribution, or sale of *Serpent’s Walk* in any way, shape, or form. All of the proceeds from sales of Tekumel-related material have gone and will continue to go to the Foundation and its work, and not to any racist or anti-Semitic organizations or causes, in any way, shape, or form.

Bethorm RPG Gathering

You’re invited to UNIgames’ Bethorm RPG Gathering!

Online, in the free web-based Roll20 virtual tabletop, Saturday April 18 2020.

Meet the design team behind UNIgames’ Tekumel role-playing game, Bethorm! We’ll chat about everything from Bethorm’s game mechanics to the Tekumel setting and the history and future of the game. We’ll be here from 4 to 6 pm CDT, stop by and say hello!

https://app.roll20.net/join/6926868/TFgkhA

Kúrt Hills Atlas Print Editions Available Now!

The Kurt Hills Atlas is now available in softcover and hardcover!

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/uni_games

The Kúrt Hills Atlas is a complete campaign setting for the Kúrt Hills region of the Empire of Tsolyánu, from M.A.R. Barker’s World of Tékumel! Usable with our own Béthorm: Plane of Tékumel RPG or with any Tékumel-based game.

This book contains a vast wealth of adventure hooks, in the form of evocative descriptions of features within the Kúrt Hills region, as shown on our poster-sized map (available separately). The map also appears within the book as a series of large 100 Tsán (82.6 mile) hexes with accompanying descriptions.

Kúrt Hills Atlas PDF Now Available!

The Kurt Hills Atlas PDF is now available for purchase through DriveThruRPG.com!

The Kúrt Hills Atlas is a complete campaign setting for the Kúrt Hills region of the Empire of Tsolyánu, from M.A.R. Barker’s World of Tékumel! Usable with our own Béthorm: Plane of Tékumel RPG or with any Tékumel-based game.

This book contains a vast wealth of adventure hooks, in the form of evocative descriptions of features within the Kúrt Hills region, as shown on our poster-sized map (available separately). The map also appears within the book as a series of large 100 Tsán (82.6 mile) hexes with accompanying descriptions.

Softcover and hardcover editions coming soon!

Fiefs of the Kurt Hills PDF Now Available

This is a companion document to our Kurt Hills Atlas map. It’s a quick reference to the Imperial Fiefs within the region covered by that map. The fiefs are named, the villages, towns, cities and other sites within each fief are listed, and the seat of the fief (where the fiefholder resides) is identified. Usable in any Tekumel-based game. Download it from RPGNow!

Deal of the Day at RPGNow & DriveThruRPG!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The “Bethorm: Plane of Tekumel” PDF is on sale for half price TODAY (December 31) from http://www.rpgnow.com/product/138315/Bethorm-the-Plane-of-Tekumel-RPG

That’s just $9.97! This is a one-day offer.

Bethorm’s all-in-one rulebook features the first tabletop RPG setting ever published (TSR’s Empire of the Petal Throne, 1975) – with over 100 illustrations by me!
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.

Strange alien creatures prowl the wilderness. Mighty heroes do battle in the arenas. Underground chambers hold vast treasures. Opposing temples wrestle for Imperial influence. Pirates and monsters prowl the steaming seas. Automatons guard ancient hoards of technological wonders. Imperial heirs compete for ascension to the Petal Throne. Enemy empires plot the overthrow the empire of Tsolyánu. Hostile nonhuman races seek the destruction of Mankind. The Undying Wizards guard – and manipulate – the timeline. Nexus points open to the Demon Realms. And the Pariah Gods seek the end of existence itself!

Powered by the skill-based Pocket Universe system, PCs are allowed almost any combination of abilities and skills. Join an Imperial legion or hire your sword out to the highest bidder. 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!

Paperback and hardcover editions are also available: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/uni_games