I keep hearing that there is a dearth of adventures for Tékumel, but when I searched online sources for adventures, I was pleasantly surprised by how many well-crafted scenarios were available. This post is a survey of what's available with a link to comprehensive spreadsheet at the end.
If you're talking about published adventures, 'They' would be right. Three adventures were published, one by Michael Mayeau in 1981 (
The Nightmare Maze of Jigrésh) and two by Mark Pettigrew in 1984 (
A Jakállan Intrigue and
The Tomb Complex of Nereshánbo). If you add in the three books of solo adventures from
Adventures on Tékumel, which can often be adapted to a group, you are still left with a veritable paucity. (Reprints of all these are available from
Tita's House of Games.) Turning to magazines, I found only
The Temple of the Doomed Prince by Phil Holmes aka Dave Morris published in White Dwarf #54. That's it for professional large run products. But that ignores a huge swatch of the marketplace and one extremely important for Tékumel: the fanzines.
The official fanzines,
The Tékumel Journal,
The Imperial Military Journal,
The Journal of Tékumel Affairs, and
The Imperial Courier, focused on encyclopedic articles on the temples, legions, non-humans, culture, astrology and numerology, and lands uncharted on the maps, as well as fiction. Not one adventure could I find.
Then we come to the
Eye of All-Seeing Wonder, the British fanzine, published by Dave Morris and Steve Foster. From the first issue, with Michael Cule's excellent
Welcome to Jakálla, a good "Fresh Off the Boat" scenario, this fanzine had at least one adventure in each issue, sometimes two or three. I used
Welcome to Jakálla for a birthday party game last fall, though I replaced the trip to the ruins of Ngála with my own excursion down below. In total, in six issues,
The Eye had eleven adventures and two campaign settings -- quite a haul. (Online versions of these issues are available on the exquisite
Tekumel: The World of the Petal Throne website, the official Tekumel resource.)
Next on our trip around the Net we come to
The Book of Visitations of Glory, an Amateur Press Association (APA) devoted to Tékumel. For those not familiar, the original idea of an APA was to publish a fanzine among a set of authors, who then commented on each others work in later issues. The famous
Alarums and Excursions was the first roleplaying APA, started by Lee Gold in 1975.
Visitations is circulated freely electronically, but retains the commentary aspect. In the seven years of its existence (2001-2008), thirteen adventures were published, including eleven by the prodigious Krista Donnelly. I played in several of these scenarios at U-Con over the years, so I know they have been thoroughly playtested.
Besides hosting the online versions of
Eye of All-Seeing Wonder and
Visitations of Glory, the official Tekumel site also has its own set of adventures. First is
The Temple of the Doomed Prince, that ancient adventure from White Dwarf, a rare magazine indeed. Luckily, you don't need to locate a copy just to get this one four-page adventure.
Against the Grain by Bob Dushay is a sequel to one of the adventures from The Eye # 6 (
A Matter of Honor -- here updated slightly from The Eye version for consistency). If you happen to be in Mu'ugalavyáni, then you might take
An Excursion into Old Cho'óchi, a short adventure by Dave Morris. Lastly is the inestimable Patrick Brady's
The Silver Hma, where players investigate the theft of some silver ingots that were meant for paying legions fighting in the north.
These adventures should keep your group playing for a long time to come, and more scenarios await exploration in the Index of Tékumel Adventures, the
promised spreadsheet.
Originally
created by the Temple of Ksárul, these intelligent humanoid mutants
have flattened, snake-like heads and tentacle arms. Qól are
often used as tomb guardians, or may be found wandering in the
Underworld, singly or in groups of up to thirty. 
