Episode 4: “Jeff Dee” Welcome to The Hall of Blue Illumination, the podcast dedicated to the world of M.A.R. Barker’s Tékumel. In our longest episode to date, veteran game designer and illustrator Jeff Dee joins our hosts to talk about his experiences with Professor Barker’s setting. Jeff is one of the two-person creative team behind […]
Episode 3, “Convention Recap”
Episode 3: “Convention Recap” Welcome to The Hall of Blue Illumination, a podcast dedicated to the world of M.A.R. Barker’s Tékumel. In this episode, our hosts continue their conversation with James Maliszewski regarding his Empire of the Petal Throne campaigns, and Victor discusses his recent experiences running Tékumel at two gaming conventions. In addition to […]
Episode 2, “James Maliszewski”
Episode 2: “James Maliszewski” Welcome to The Hall of Blue Illumination, a podcast dedicated to the world of M.A.R. Barker’s Tékumel. In this episode, we discuss James’s work within the setting of Tékumel, and his correspondence with Professor Barker. James is the editor of The Excellent Travelling Volume, a digest-sized print-only fanzine dedicated to the […]
Episode 1, “Fresh Off the Boat”
Welcome to The Hall of Blue Illumination, a podcast dedicated to the world of M.A.R. Barker’s Tékumel. In this episode, our hosts discuss the “fresh off the boat” campaign.
The initial premise of this kind of campaign is that the players’ characters are newcomers to the setting of the Empire of the Petal Throne. This framing device presents a convenient mechanism for initiating players into the elaborately detailed environment of Professor Barker’s world.