Talislanta
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| RPG published by Bard Games, Wizards of the Coast, Pharos Press, Shooting Iron, Morrigan Press |
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| Rule System | Omni System | |
| Authors | Stephan Michael Sechi | |
| First Publication | 1987 (1st Edition) 1988 (2nd Edition) 1992 (3rd Edition) 2001 (4th Edition) 2005 (d20 Edition) 2007 (5th Edition) 2016 (Savage Lands) |
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"No Elves"
- – The tagline for the gameline
Talislanta is an RPG and setting created by Stephan Michael Sechi. The setting is inspired more by the works of Jack Vance and Lovecraft, rather than Tolkien, as evidenced by the tagline. In 2010, Sechi put all of the English-language products under the Creative Commons license, so anyone could download them from the Talislanta webpage.
Setting
The world of Talislanta is a flat disk with a single continent surrounded by an ocean on it. The world orbits two suns and has seven moons, which are used to keep track of time.
In the distant past, The Great Disaster, brought on by the falling of the flying cities of the now-dead Archaen, transformed much of the worlds surface. Once verdant lands turned to desolate wastelands and a colossal magical hurricane settled around the continent, occasionally bringing in things like acid rain and arcane energy storms. From this came the Age of Confusion, during which Talislanta: The Savage Land takes place, when people abandoned the cities of old and much knowledge of magic and the world was lost.
The main gameline takes place in the sixth century of the New Age, as pockets of civilization have risen from the ashes, surrounded by ruins of ancient cities with riches and knowledge to be found, wild beasts, breath-taking sights, savage tribes, and rumors of a coming second Great Disaster.