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Talislanta

Started by Dropbear, March 09, 2022, 07:16:54 AM

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tenbones

#15
March 11, 2022, 03:41:31 PM
2e is a *solid* starting (and resting) place.

2e, 3e, 4e, are all great. All of them are worth looking at and you can easily pull bits from each for detail. If you're going to to go 2e, a LOT of setting material was create for 3e that you can use. And since all of the editions are still using the same basic scale and task resolution mechanics, you can use them pretty interchangeably.

I recommend reading up on the lore - it's deep, but certainly not impenetrable. It'll give you a lot of ideas on things you wanna sprinkle emphasize depending on when and where in world you start.

Talislanta: The Savage Lands - has a lot of material that you can mine for color. Of course you'll have to pay for it since it's not on the Talislanta website. If you're interested in that time-period, it has races and monsters that are extinct in the modern era of Talislanta. The bestiary alone is always a cool resource for modern Talislanta games - maybe one of these prehistoric monstrosities were in magical stasis and wakes up ready to rip shit to pieces in a much more verdant world. Likewise - you could use any of the races there in the same manner. Ironically it would be an interesting starting point for new players with zero context... they wake up... and the world is literally different from the apocalyptic hellscape they were in. Time to explore!

pawsplay

#16
March 20, 2022, 07:40:07 PM
4e is probably the most lore-complete, but I don't care for some of the setting updates. AFAIK, 2e is the pinnacle. There is a decent amount of lore, plenty of room to explore, and the system is both elegant and comfortably old-school.

silencio789

#17
March 21, 2022, 11:05:04 AM
I read 2e, played 3e, love 4e, was disappointed with 5e and actually sold it! (Which is a shame really since there is a good game in there.)

I like the Action Table system a lot and I liked the freedom of the 4e magic system.
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tenbones

#18
March 21, 2022, 11:15:35 AM
You can take any setting, write up a bunch of archetypes for that setting, and take the action table and get rolling. The magic systems from any edition could be used to fill-in with nearly any system and it scales to nearly any power-level.

The system stands on its own - it's elegant, simple and great.
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