Talislanta

So a sixth edition is coming with full colour books. Not much info besides it having 5e conversions.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >pointy eared guy on the cover
    >NO ELVES

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not an Elf. Race made to fight called Thralls.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >it's not en elf, it's just a not-human with pointy ears called an... uh... Äëlphárî! totally different!!
        Uh huh.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          IDK anon it doesn't sound like an elf

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >pointy ears
            >low sexual dimorphism
            >magic origins
            Literally an elf with low effort OCdonotsteal sprinkled in. I'm just saying, man. The setting shouldn't be sucking its own wiener over "no elves" when its posterboy race just looks like a bald elf with a deviantart sparkledog color scheme.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Here is your (you). I hope you enjoy it. This is not a statement about the game in anyway just about your terrible quality post.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Lmao it wasn't even bait, I stand by my statement. What's the point of jerking yourself off over how unique and "elf-less" your setting's races are, when the featured race just looks like an elf erratically colored in by a toddler?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Lmao it wasn't even bait

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Are you the guy who made the setting, mad that somebody's poking fun of your lack of originality? You can have not-elfs in your setting bro, just don't sniff your own farts over how unique they are. It's cringe.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They read the entirety of what I've read on the setting. Which was that pic. It's not my fault they're too moronic to read two paragraphs without their brain leaking from their ears.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The better question is how they navigated this much of the internet to get here in the first place.

                Jesus Christ, what a a pathetic series of posts.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I've always found this meme funny for the wrong reason. That fish is obviously manifesting Bait-ylon, not Unlimited Bait Works.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              nta but I can cherry pick some bits from there and have them not be elves check it
              >elaborate colourful tattoos
              >liberated slave warrior culture
              >jungle dwellers in cooperative multiracial polity
              Its easy enough to make most things seem sort of like something else if you abstract enough but it tends to remove the capacity to discuss detail so why?
              Its a groupers and splitters thing. Some people like lumping things together into groups based on commonality and other people like splitting things into more discrete units based on specifics.
              I mostly remember the
              >no elves
              from white wolf magazine advertisements so the edgy/cringe thing is just part of the time its from.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They're also physically identical to each other Thrall of the same sex, hairless, albino, and muscular. Not exactly elfy. They're just got pointed ears. They don't even have low sexual dimorphism that's just the entire races only difference. All the dudes look the same, all the chicks look the same. Otherwise it's not much different than in humans, there is a 100 lb difference is weight between them. Which isn't nothing. Culturally they're highly regimented. Their entire society is modelled on military hierarchies. Top to bottom down to family units. It's all alliances, platoons, divisions, etc. Then they're also an artificially created race to serve as warrior slaves. And they're unable to use magic. None of it is really elflike but the ears, but hobbits had pointy ears too and they're just as close to those really.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              you didn't even correctly read the two paragraphs there. why are you even in this thread?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The better question is how they navigated this much of the internet to get here in the first place.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >low effort OCdonotsteal
              Congratulations, you now get Talislanta. As well as all the other shit totally-not-D&D fantasy settings of that time.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Talislanta editions are 80%+ the older editions copy pasted.
      I never read 5E so maybe it's drastically different from 4E?

      It's kind of a tongue in cheek joke as far as I've been able to tell.

      I've been hacking away at a TAL4 homebrew, shits great.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is it any good? I've been hearing about it for ages but the only thing I hear is how it has weird PC races, but not much more.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not that good. All the weird races have 1-to-1 cultural equivalents in the real world. Less interesting than it claims, but better than your average Forgotten Realms shit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's a good medium weight system.
      4e/5e:
      >character creation is very fast, choose from the big ol' list of archetypes, adjust stats up/down a few points, done
      >archetypes are race as class or race+class packages
      >archetypes are trivial to homebrew, there are no rules for this but the existing types as benchmarks is more than enough guidance
      >archetypes are simulationist instead of balanced, choose chad witch hunter or literal dung farmer at your own peril
      >archetypes vary in lore quality, some are cantina background filler tier but whatever you get at least 40 per book
      >monster to PC conversions are often trivial
      >characters advance through in game time training
      >5e has optional lifepaths that are like Traveller terms without the random rolling (this is the bulk of 4e/5e difference)
      >d20 with degrees of success
      >armor is damage reduction
      >modular spell system grouped by function (do damage, move, heal etc)
      >no mana or slots, target number rises progressively the more spells you cast
      Very competent system for sword and sorcery, planetary romance, space fantasy or your 80s satAM scifi cartoon needs.

      Not that good. All the weird races have 1-to-1 cultural equivalents in the real world. Less interesting than it claims, but better than your average Forgotten Realms shit.

      >pacifist giant sloth chewbaccas that dredge swamps for amber
      >bird people that are in the process of loosing flight
      >clonetroopers that differentiate by tattoos
      >drug user neanderthals with serrated stone disc bola cultural weapons
      >four armed jungle barbarian
      >crystal crafting underground gnome
      >MLM-scheme religious zealots
      >fish people slavers

      I concede there is stuff like just plain gypsies in there but the assertion that they are all one to one is a bit disingenuous and kind of missing the point.
      The archetypes are each like a short synopsis of an action figure of an adventure of the week series or an encounter in a fantasy movie with practical effects puppets.
      Talislanta is like a big old toybox with spacey barbarian guys.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Pointy ears make an elf according to /tg/
    So what's up with Tolkien then? His elves never had that shit in the books.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Don't feed the trolls.

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