The cover depicts a battle in the Underworld between two groups. The same OSR Grimoire post linked above also has a photo of Hoyt running the game for several players, and others can be spotted on Facebook. Fortunately for us Bill still has a few demo copies on which participants can play."Īt these games, Hoyt shows off the fantastic cover of the game, which is the image that appears at the top of this post, and can also be seen in this Facebook post. Bill Hoyt sought to capitalize on these popular products by creating a game that tapped into both: Quest! Designed in the mid-1970s, this game was one of the many games considered for publication by TSR. At the same time, Dave Megarry's Dungeon! was TSR's most popular board game. TSR followed this up with a line of miniatures and a set of wargame rules, Legions of the Petal Throne by Dave Sutherland III. "Legends of Wargaming event! This is your chance to play Quest! the unpublished Empire of the Petal Throne board game designed by original Blackmoor player, Bill Hoyt! A variant of the Dungeon! board game, players will instead face the mysteries, magic, and monsters of Tekumel! After a brief introduction on the history of the game’s design, Bill will lead up to 12 players into the Tekumel Underworld! Empire of the Petal Throne by Professor MAR Barker is one of the most lavishly conceived fantasy worlds of all time! When TSR published Empire of the Petal Throne in 1975 and it was a natural success.
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While the game has never been published for general release, for the past few years Bill Hoyt has been running the game using his prototypes at Gary Con as part of Paul Stormberg's Legends of Wargaming series here is the description from the Gary Con XII listing: Bill goes way back he's the "William Hoyt of W.A.W." mentioned in the TSR editions of EPT, and was one of the people - along with Gronan - who persuaded Phil to publish in the first place." Bill made six prototype copies of the game, and was kind enough to give me one for my archives. " Bill Hoyt's wonderful game, "Quest", that he created with Dave Megarry's help it's a Tekumel version of "Dungeon", and it's a lot of fun to play. "Ĭhirine Ba Kal, another member of Barker's group, provides more context in a Q&A thread: I just think it's neat that Bill was able to get it published in the form shown at the top of this.
Gygax assumed Hoyt would take it to the Tekumel people after they rejected it I don't know what if anything came of that. Gygax did offer to try to radically simplify the game, to make it something even less complicated than Dungeon!, but Hoyt didn't seem amenable to that. Doing board games was expensive, and in 1978 anyway, Dungeon! sales weren't growing anything like core D&D sales, so from a strategic investment perspective, TSR wanted to put their money elsewhere. " TSR held on to Quest for like three years, from 1975 to 1978, and then opted not to publish it. TSR also reprinted several WAW titles (see Jon's post for details), and then considered publishing the Tekumel boardgame, which Hoyt proposed calling " Quest ", whereas Gygax favored " Catacombs". Hoyt played in Tekumel and facilitated the publication of the Empire of the Petal Throne by TSR, who gave him a finder's fee and a "Presented in Association" credit for WAW.
Barker's game groups and a publisher of game products under the "WAW Productions" imprint. Kask doesn't name the game or its designer, but Jon Peterson reported in 2015 that it was created by Bill Hoyt, a member of both Dave Arneson's and M.A.R. It is a really promising game in its own right, played on a beautiful board" (h/t to the OSR Grimoire). However, the similarity is merely superficial. " Also a little in the future is an EPT-based game on the order of DUNGEON!. Publicly this went as far as a mention in the fifth Strategic Review (the magazine that later became The Dragon) in late 1975, where Tim Kask wrote: Image Source: Paul Stormberg and Bill Hoyt via The OSR Grimoire blogįor a time in the 1970s, TSR considered publishing a boardgame that was a sequel their popular DUNGEON! boardgame but based on the setting (Tekumel) of Empire of the Petal Throne, their second RPG.
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