You arrive at a port city with your clothes and your boat.

[greentongue]

If this was not a fantasy world it would remind you of Bombay, India back in 1,000 AD.
Hot, crowded and colorful.

As a player, how strange of customs and laws can you handle before it is not fun?
At what point is new and different just too much trouble to deal with?

Mostly talking to people that have heard the name "EPT" but have never actually played.

For players that have started that way, what worked?
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[makofan]

In an online play-by-post game, where the immersion is not as deep, I have a low tolerance for strange. I like a setting I can understand easily and quickly, so I can concentrate on the action.

Face-to-face, immersing yourself in new customs is fascinating and I could happily spend an entire session just roaming a city and learning the culture.

I do not know why this is, but that's the way it is for me.

[greentongue]

Interesting. I would have expected the opposite.
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[greentongue]

For What It's Worth, it seems to be working so far.
Got two people in an online play-by-post game and as far as I know they have never played in Tekumel before.
At least one has never even heard of it.
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[greentongue]

If anyone is interested in lurking ...
rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=58590&date=1394243066

ALERT: It will be heavily "spun my way" and NOT tight to canon.
Just like back in the old days when there wasn't volumes of details available.
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[greentongue]

Anyone else have an online game of EPT they can link?

Showing that there is "life" out there, if you know where to look.
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[akooser]

We are running one on Monday night via hangouts using the Torchbearer ruleset.