Re: Tsolyani

Terrence Donnelly scripsit:

> One almost thinks he
> created the Tekumel game just an an excuse to do conlanging.
Exactly so.  I met him at DipCon VIII (I think; '77, anyway) and
talked to him about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, in which he
is a big believer ("I could prove it if I just had a little more
data").

> Is anyone
> familiar with the Tekmuel game system?  How important was Tsolyani the
> language to the play of the game?  Somehow I can't imagine gamers willing to
> learn an entire language just to do role-playing!
Not that important.  But it did provide a systematic source of
"local color" (names of famous NPCs, places, Gods and demons, etc.)
that (A)D&D has always lacked.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)