D&D 5E Talislanta 5e Kickstarter is live!

[darjr]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1861515217/talislanta-the-savage-land/description

They've hit their funding goal already.

Talislanta: the Savage Land is a prequel to the original Talislanta game. It takes place just a short time after The Great Disaster, which the inhabitants of this era refer to as The Fall.

This period is like a nightmarish version of our own Dark Ages. All knowledge of spell-casting has been lost; maps are nearly non-existent, and much of the world is unknown. Most of those who survived The Fall are illiterate, and governed by superstition.

There are no nations, city states, or even laws. In their place, tribes of warriors, nomads, slavers, and refugees struggle to survive in a hostile wasteland, torn by centuries of warfare and a malevolent magical maelstrom known as the Gyre.

This is the world in which Talislanta: the Savage Land (TSL) takes place.

The world of TSL is dangerous and largely unexplored. Anything the inhabitants pre-Fall knew of the world is of little value now. The landscape has shifted. The great nations were sundered. Civilization itself has shattered.

 

[Ed Laprade]

The author obviously meant dark ages Europe, which was not the whole world, and I wish people would stop treating it like it was.

Somewhat more importantly for us, however, is the question: What does this have to do with 5E?

 

[darjr]

It's in the title. It includes a D&D 5e version of the rules.

 

[Ed Laprade]

It's in the title. It includes a D&D 5e version of the rules.

Thanks, I quite missed that, and didn't click the link.

 

[darjr]

No worries. I did just realize I only put 5e in the thread title and not D&D.

 

[Raith5]

But does it have elves?

 

[Shasarak]

That is some nice looking art!

But no Elves? Does not seem very realistic.

 

[Ath'kethin]

5 bucks gets you the pdf core book and all pdf stretch goals. Can't beat that.

 

[Tony Vargas]

But does it have elves?

They didn't lead or close with "Best of all: no elves," so I don't trust it.

 

[Demetrios1453]

The author obviously meant dark ages Europe, which was not the whole world, and I wish people would stop treating it like it was.

Somewhat more importantly for us, however, is the question: What does this have to do with 5E?

From what I'm reading, they didn't specify which "Dark Ages" they were emulating, leaving it up to the reader to identify it with the dark ages experienced by their own cultures.

And even if they did mean it in the European sense, the 5th and 6th centuries were pretty garbage worldwide, at least until the reunification of a previously divided and warring China under the Sui Dynasty in 581. Even the most stable political entities during that period, Sassanid Persia and the Eastern Roman Empire, had a pretty bad time of it, incessesantly warring against each other (culminating in the great war of 602 - 628 which mutually wrecked both empires) while simultaneously dealing with incursions from the steppes by the Avars, Hephthalites, Turks, and so on...

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