>Right now, the game is in playtest mode (as far as I can ascertain), round 2. Stewart [Wieck] (who is handling the production and business end of things) is estimating a Kickstarter coming in March (2017). The book is written (as far as I know) and I think that all of the art is done (I've seen a few pieces), but getting mechanics sorted after the first round of playtest seems to be eating some time. Probably layout is taking some time as well. And, on the other hand, Stewart is running a gaming company with a lot of stuff on his plate AND he just bought (as a co-owner) a gaming store in... uh... Texas (?) I think. So, he's pretty busy. Look, aside from Stewart taking over the production and being an actual company owner, Tal's biggest successes have come from when the fans were producing stuff (see 4th edition). TSL is close to that as it was pretty much written by SMS and us fans. I'm not 100% happy with some of the mechanics choices, but the setting and the worldbuilding and the lore are solid.
David Ramirez
No I mean they quite literally have a magical pointy eared beautiful elder race that's dying out.
They also straight up have fairies under another name too.
Talislanta has some pretty cool ideas, but don't pretend it's incredibly original, it has it's shit too.
Jaxson Rodriguez
>YFW Stewart Wieck, >yeah that guy who co-founded White Wolf and co-created The World of Darkness... >...loves Talislanta
Gabriel Rivera
So someone with shit taste and ideas love something good? Shocking.
>Had a "d20 system" long before WOTC Not any of the anons you're arguing with, but AD&D 1E and 2E used the d20 system, and they were own by TSR. But yes, Talislanta is very different to AD&D.
Owen Collins
I should have been a little clearer. I didn't say that Tal was the only game to use a d20 as its resolution mechanic. That's obviously D&D's claim.
But Talislanta called its mechanics system the "d20 system" in the 1990s. No edition of D&D under TSR called itself that until WOTC released D&D 3E in 2000. Not that it was a Tal trademark or anything, but it was the moniker for the system. That's why Talislanta's "d20 system" predates D&D's d20 system.
Josiah Brown
Its funny to see this generation compare a weird setting to Morrowind instead of Moebius and stuff like Incal.
Caleb Adams
Because we grew up on the works inspired by this stuff instead of with it?
But uhhh...... All the sauce, please. I don't have the words to explain how disappointing it is to not have friends who know about weird settings
Samuel Torres
Google Philippe Druillet and Jean Giraud for starts.
