D&D 5E Talislanta D&D 5e version crowd fund soon!

[Fanaelialae]

The game that builds its entire identity on mocking D&D gets a D&D version.
Amazing.

I don't see it as mocking D&D. I'd say it differentiates itself by aiming to avoid many of the tropes of traditional fantasy. D&D does assume many of those tropes, but I wouldn't say it is mocking D&D, any more than it is mocking Forbidden Lands.

 

[Some Dude]

Necro, but it appears there will be a crowdfunding campaign in January:

Talislanta the Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game FINAL EDITION (6th Ed) w/ Separate "5E" Conversion by Everything Epic

Talislanta the Epic Diverse Tabletop Roleplaying Game FINAL EDITION (6th Ed) W/ Separate "5E" Conversion is BACK, and after 35 years, still no Elves! With all new Color illustrations in 3 Giant Tomes: Over 100 EPIC Player Character Archetypes, tons of EPIC Monsters, an EPIC Atlas and GMs guide...

gamefound.com

 

[Cruentus]

I don't see it as mocking D&D. I'd say it differentiates itself by aiming to avoid many of the tropes of traditional fantasy. D&D does assume many of those tropes, but I wouldn't say it is mocking D&D, any more than it is mocking Forbidden Lands.

Except it doesn’t really avoid the tropes, IMO, because many of those tropes are universal. I grabbed the Chronicles way back when, and always am checking it out to see what species (probably races in the book) I could pull to make things “different” in my fantasy worlds, and there really isn’t anything compelling. Humans with different skin colors and still pulled from real world cultures. Alien type humanoids with pointy ears and butterfly wings, which look like elves, and sound like elves, but are named something else. Some terms and species names that have the potential to be problematic today.

I’ll be curious what they do with it, as I liked some of the art work and some of the concepts (the flying manta artwork, and the black necromancer dudes - the names escape me), but the “races” they had, at least in Chronicles were meh and repetitive. Nothing I couldn’t get from changing a skin color and picking a new name for something already in DnD.

 

[Fanaelialae]

Except it doesn’t really avoid the tropes, IMO, because many of those tropes are universal. I grabbed the Chronicles way back when, and always am checking it out to see what species (probably races in the book) I could pull to make things “different” in my fantasy worlds, and there really isn’t anything compelling. Humans with different skin colors and still pulled from real world cultures. Alien type humanoids with pointy ears and butterfly wings, which look like elves, and sound like elves, but are named something else. Some terms and species names that have the potential to be problematic today.

I’ll be curious what they do with it, as I liked some of the art work and some of the concepts (the flying manta artwork, and the black necromancer dudes - the names escape me), but the “races” they had, at least in Chronicles were meh and repetitive. Nothing I couldn’t get from changing a skin color and picking a new name for something already in DnD.

Arguably, which is why I said "aiming to avoid", as opposed to "avoiding". You're free to debate whether or not it successfully accomplishes that goal, but to me it seems fairly indisputable that it was an intended goal for the setting.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I'm jazzed about it. At the very least, it's a cool setting and I love those. But it also opens the possibility of using a 5E Talislanta game to introduce new players to the 4th edition Talislanta system (not 4E D&D with Talislanta, but the 4th edition of the Talislanta RPG, i.e., the Big Blue Book). It's a great system and a great fit for the setting.

 

[Voadam]

I backed and have used the 5e Talislanta - The Savage Land, and I find it to be an excellent resource.

The Savage Lands Talislanta 5e D&D version is still available for sale. The older editions including 1e-4e and the d20 3e D&D version, are available for free.

 

[Some Dude]

While a lot of the Talislanta races have the Star Trek problem (i.e., humanoids/humans with "brow ridges"), I'm not sure I agree that they actually have elves just because some of the races are fair or have pointed ears. From a cultural standpoint, I don't really see anything analogous to elves.

One thing I really like about Talislanta is that there isn't a huge buy-in required in order to play one of these races. Talislanta aims for "breadth, not depth." Pick a character, read a short summary of their homeland and customs, boom done. I know not everyone will want such a casual approach, but I prefer tropes to lore anyday.

 

[Some Dude]

This should be going live in about a week...

Talislanta the Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game FINAL EDITION (6th Ed) w/ Separate "5E" Conversion by Everything Epic

Talislanta the Epic Diverse Tabletop Roleplaying Game FINAL EDITION (6th Ed) W/ Separate "5E" Conversion is BACK, and after 35 years, still no Elves! With all new Color illustrations in 3 Giant Tomes: Over 100 EPIC Player Character Archetypes, tons of EPIC Monsters, an EPIC Atlas and GMs guide...

gamefound.com

 

[darjr]

This should be going live in about a week...

Talislanta the Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game FINAL EDITION (6th Ed) w/ Separate "5E" Conversion by Everything Epic

Talislanta the Epic Diverse Tabletop Roleplaying Game FINAL EDITION (6th Ed) W/ Separate "5E" Conversion is BACK, and after 35 years, still no Elves! With all new Color illustrations in 3 Giant Tomes: Over 100 EPIC Player Character Archetypes, tons of EPIC Monsters, an EPIC Atlas and GMs guide...

gamefound.com

Gamefound. I think I’ll change the title of the thread.

 

[MoonSong]

Wow, might buy the 5e conversion pdf.