Talislanta, the most metal, 1980s, no-elves, doodles-on-the-side-of-your-high-school-workbook fantasy setting that nobody's heard of.
What is TALISLANTA?
An exotic post-apoc fantasy world inspired by the fantasy novels of Jack Vance, and by other sources such as H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dreamlands, Michael Moorcock’s Elric novels, and The Travels of Marco Polo.
The game is set in a strange world of twin suns and seven moons that's overflowing with exotic peoples, places, and creatures. The time is the New Age, a Renaissance-like period 600 years after The Great Disaster, a cataclysm that marked the fall of the Space Wizards of the Archaen Age.
Talislanta has seas of glass, phytomantic bird-people, tattooed clone warriors, transmutation wizards who use quintessence to change storms into crystals, sindarans with two brains, warring cultists who have taken over entire nations, elemental demons, ice schooners running on glaciers, windships manned by astromancers, beastmen mutants riding two-headed mini-dragons, and a whole lot more stuff that's a combo of every prog-rock album cover you've ever seen.
The last 5 publishers went bankrupt (except WOTC, which reverted the rights when MTG took off). You can still find a few hardcopy books on Ebay, et al., but they are damned expensive.
I'd start with either the Big Blue Book (4th Edition) or if you want a rules-free intro read The Chronicles of Talislanta. It has nice illustrations.
Hudson Torres
>no-elves You mean this game with the pointy eard multicolored guy on the cover?
Hudson Bell
Pros: >Weird fantasy with 60+ races and strange cultures >Easy rules system >Quick chargen, at least in earlier editions >Creative customizable magic system >Endorsed by Jack Vance himself
Cons: >A lot of setting material to get into >Pretty edgy and amateurish in many places >Out of print though still supported somewhat by the creator >Magic system takes a bit of time to grok
Easton Fisher
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Jose Morgan
I don't see where it is edgy.
Dominic Garcia
>I'm an orphan... >Necromancers killed all my people >I must avenge them >Alone >Never stop >Keep killing these evil reincarnating wizards... >Forever!
I kid. ;)
Colton Howard
Gotta love a Kang on a feathered dino, err, I mean Strider.
Pretty much, yeah. I don't know what genre Visigoth fits into, but it works nicely for Talislanta.
Kayden Adams
>This guy leads an ultra-puritanical cult that believes anyone who isn't shaved is a sinner and that gathering mana points is the only way to heaven.
Logan Sullivan
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Lincoln Morales
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Jack James
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Kayden Johnson
The blue guy on the right kinda looks like the Grinch
Jose Morgan
Aeriad. Bird-People who have vestigial wings and can glide but not fly. They specialize in Botanomancy, or plant magic. They come in Green(magician) and Blue(warrior) varieties.
Austin Morales
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Blake Scott
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Levi Russell
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Nathaniel Watson
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Robert Fisher
kek
Leo White
I found a blog about the adventures of the Group of Not-So Magnificent Seven here:
