EMPIRE OF THE PETAL THRONE (1975) 1st Edition, TSR, created by M. A. Barker and notable for being one of the first table-top role-playing board games originally self-published and released in the same year as the first ever Dungeons and Dragons game. Empire of The Petal Thronw includes detailed world-building, lore and original languages inside the fictional land of Tékumel. This is the first published edition and appears complete NB: one of the game maps has been stuck to a board.