Talislanta 5e pdf sale

[Voadam]

It looks like Morrigan Press put the pdfs for Talislanta 5e on sale for $5.55 each. Found here.

I remember the ads in old Dragons proclaiming their world with "No Elves!" and got the d20 books but have not checked out the world in depth. I also saw that WotC used to own the line back before their MtG days. I picked up the four core books because it looks interesting and they are cheap. Plus even though I'm not that interested in a new gaming system, the world book is completely statless.

Anybody have any experience with Talislanta?

 

[Kelon]

From a german website Tanan » Talislanta ist wieder da!

The german text says that the massage is from the yahoo group and from Stephen Michael Sechi.

Das beste aller Fantasy-Rollenspiele meldet sich zurück, wie schon so oft: 2010 läuft endlich die Talislanta-Lizenz von Morrigan Press ab und die Rechte fallen an Stephen Michael Sechi zurück. Nach Jahren des Stillstands bedeutet das: Ein neues Art Book! Eine neue Website! Ein neues Forum! Sämtliche bisherige Bücher als freie PDFs!!

Was SMS da in der Yahoo-Gruppe schreibt, klingt fast zu gut, um wahr zu sein:

Hi -

For the past couple of months there’s been a lot going on behind the scenes with Talislanta. Now that everything we’ve been working on has been confirmed, we’re happy to announce some new products and ventures based on the Talislanta milieu.

First up, Khepera Publishing (creators of the Hellas RPG), has signed a license to produce a full-color, hardcover Talislanta art book – title, artists, and writers to be announced, scheduled for release in January 2011. For those of you who’ve been asking for this for years, it’s finally going to happen. Jerry Grayson of Khepera has this to say about the project:

“I’ve been a fan of Talislanta for some time and I hope to express that with my next project .With the art book I hope to vividly portray the world and marvel of Talislanta in a way that’s accessible to old fans and new people looking for a unique fantasy experience.”

Also coming soon: a new Talislanta.com, which will be completely re-designed from the bottom-up by Adam Louie, a web designer and graphic artist currently living in Philadelphia, PA. The new website will include links to the new Talislanta forums, a Talislanta art gallery, and a number of other new features.

But perhaps the best thing about the new site is that we plan to set it up so that users can download all the old Talislanta books in PDF format, for free. The challenge: turning all the old Talislanta books into PDFs.

Thanks to the forward-thinking guys at SI, we already have the massive Tal4 in PDF format, which saves us a LOT of work. We also have all of the Morrigian Tal-books in PDF format, though these cannot be given away for free until Morrigan’s license officially expires (in 2010).

In order to put together a complete archive of free Talislanta PDFs, we’re going to need a few volunteers to help scan some of the older titles. If you have a scanner and a little free time, and you’d like to help out, please respond via the Tal-list and we’ll get in touch with you.

Last but not least, Adam Black and Steve Sechi will be teaming-up on a new Talislanta project that will debut in early 2010. Can’t say more about this now but on the Talislanta.com site you’ll find a piece of concept art for this upcoming project, with more to follow in the near future.

Thanks again to loyal Talislanta fans everywhere for your continued support!

 

[coyote6]

Way back in the day, I was waiting for the GURPS Talislanta book to come out. Alas, it never did.

 

[RangerWickett]

I have a copy of Sub-Men Rising. It warms my heart. I tried to get everything from the Shooting Iron and earlier period. The only book I don't have is Quantrigue, which just never intrigued me.

Sub-Men Rising, by Robin Laws, is a wonderful book. You infiltrate the big bad nasty monstrous hordes that threaten civilization, and you can't just kill them to victory. You have to manipulate their politics, and to do that you have to learn their culture, which makes it suddenly a lot harder to think of them just as 'the bad guys.'

(Thankfully, there's a resolution that satisfies any type of adventurer, no matter whose side you end up taking.)

 

[pawsplay]

Talislanta rocks. However, I have very little familiarity with the 5e version, because I didn't like the sound of some rule changes, didn't like the multiple books format, and eventually ended up boycotting Morrigan Press over their alleged treatment of some freelancers, including, allegedly, some of my friends.

2e and 4e are, in my opinion, the best overall versions.

 

[Voadam]

Its wierd, some 4e ones are included in the sale (Codex Magicus, Midnight Realm, Chronicles of Talislanta) and some are not (Core book and menagerie).

 

[Voadam]

But perhaps the best thing about the new site is that we plan to set it up so that users can download all the old Talislanta books in PDF format, for free. The challenge: turning all the old Talislanta books into PDFs.

Thanks to the forward-thinking guys at SI, we already have the massive Tal4 in PDF format, which saves us a LOT of work. We also have all of the Morrigian Tal-books in PDF format, though these cannot be given away for free until Morrigan’s license officially expires (in 2010).

Interesting thanks.

So we can get the books cheap on sale now or wait at least a year and see if this comes to fruition.