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Is Talislanta the first system to use the modifier bonus as the attribute?
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Not sure it's the first but it started with that in 1st edition.Is Talislanta the first system to use the modifier bonus as the attribute?
I saw that which got me thinking that it was the first.Not sure it's the first but it started with that in 1st edition.
I was actually surprised looking at Traveller on the net for the first time, after playing it for most of my youth, that the OTU was the most common setting to play in rather than a homegrown one. We never used it.Hi all! First post, but been reading quite a while. To get back to the original question, I always thought Traveller was a system that could be used for multiple settings. (And Cepheus Engine settings, I think, proves my hypothesis)
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All of the Talislanta books can be downloaded here: http://talislanta.com/I didn't even know about Talislanta till a few years ago, and the only PDFs I got are bad scans of 1e & 3e that are kinda blurry, with the 3e one too hard to make out. Don't remember how I got them; maybe one of those DTRPG bundles or something.
A tribute to the Burgess Shale period of TravellerHi all! First post, but been reading quite a while. To get back to the original question, I always thought Traveller was a system that could be used for multiple settings. (And Cepheus Engine settings, I think, proves my hypothesis)
cheers!
Apparently, when multicellular life first appeared (possibly spurred on by the DNA-shuffling effects of sexual reproduction), it exploded into a myriad of "experimental" forms (preserved in the Burgess Shale), followed later by an apparent mass extinction. Only the handful of phyla that survived that extinction left descendants; all life on Earth belongs to one of those remaining phyla -- maybe 10-20% of the phyla that lived at the period of the Burgess Shale.Note: A Phylum (plural Phyla) is the next-to-largest step in the Linnaean System of biological classification. For example; all fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals -- anything with a spinal cord/backbone -- group into a single phylum: Vertebrates.
All of the Talislanta books can be downloaded here: http://talislanta.com/
Wow, Talislanta...what can I say?I can't even begin to describe how formative this picture was on my young brain...
I was on the 4e bandwagon for a good while. But you're being too modest, because I actually think TSL is the best version of the rules out there. Take 2e, clean it up and get rid of leveling...<chef's kiss>I know I'm in the minority - 4e is probably the best edition, it's the most popular. But 2e is so slim and stripped down. My personal favorite is 3e which nestles right in-between both. But I can do any of them.
The setting felt like a cross between Barsoom and trippy Moebius comics and it was totally unique for us, and there was something about the game mechanics that we all felt was really good as well.
I wish I could get more on board with Talislanta. It looks really cool. And I have almost all of the stuff up to 4e in print (almost all of it picked up used, a few books in the late 90s from a used book store, the rest around 2002-2004 at used book stores or game stores with huge used game departments). Actually, I have two of almost everything... :-)Wow, Talislanta...what can I say?
Ii love this cover, it conjures up alot of memories for me...
I think Fantasy Grounds MoreCore extension supports Talislanta dice rolls.What amazes me is that none of the online VTTs seem to support Talislanta. I mean, everything has been released legally for free and yet none of the online VTTs have even something as simple as a character sheet available for any edition of Talislanta.
A system named ubiquity really needs a generic supplement!My favourite setting system that has not had the generic treatment as far as I am aware is Ubiquity from Hollow Earth Expedition.
Stat plus skill dice pool where every die has a 50/50 hit rate is so simple and yet it just works
I have played it with HEX, All for One and a couple of my own homebrew settings.
This was the first system that properly subdivided unarmed combat between "That Psycho Bruce Lee Shit" and "Make Somebody Stop Living With Your Fist."I always thought the system from HoL was far better and more flexible that it shows. Early on in my hacking career I used in for a bunch of different things.
My favourite setting system that has not had the generic treatment as far as I am aware is Ubiquity from Hollow Earth Expedition.
Stat plus skill dice pool where every die has a 50/50 hit rate is so simple and yet it just works
I have played it with HEX, All for One and a couple of my own homebrew settings.
MEGS or DC is another one. But for me, while it's an incredible system, and it scales to truly cosmic levels it's lacks the granularity that FASERIP had. DC felt like it couldn't do street level all that well but it really shined at comic heroes and beyond. Just my two cents.
This was the first system that properly subdivided unarmed combat between "That Psycho Bruce Lee Shit" and "Make Somebody Stop Living With Your Fist."
JG
Yeah, that could work alright. I actually bought Underground a few years back on drivethru. But I returned it, because the scan was so terrible I could barely read it.MEGS can do street level fine. In Underground, Ray Winninger just changed the exponential system so that each AP is 1.5x the previous AP instead of 2 in DCH.
I can't confirm it. But I *think* it might be.Is Talislanta the first system to use the modifier bonus as the attribute?
I wish I could get more on board with Talislanta. It looks really cool. And I have almost all of the stuff up to 4e in print (almost all of it picked up used, a few books in the late 90s from a used book store, the rest around 2002-2004 at used book stores or game stores with huge used game departments). Actually, I have two of almost everything... :-)
I even tried to run a Cold Iron campaign in the setting.
But one of the stumbling blocks I hit was the near lack of terrestrial fauna and flora, heck, if you read carefully, it doesn't even exactly have humans...
I so want to love this, yet I just can't get my head around it enough...
By support I meant have character sheets or rule sets already created.I think Fantasy Grounds MoreCore extension supports Talislanta dice rolls.
I looked at the various sites and my eyes just kind of glazed over when I tried to figure out how to make it myself.I'd love to see Talislanta on one of the electronic tables. I wish I knew more about Roll20, or the like to cook up a sheet.
I was going to suggest this too.Treat Cymrillians like "humans"
I thought they were a dwarf-gnome hybrid?I can't underline this post enough to exemplify the last 40-years of comments I've heard about Talislanta. And it serves as a reason why I created this thread.
ffilz I'll let you in on a secret. Treat Cymrillians like "humans" and you'll see their culture is not very different than any high-magic culture on the surface. They're a mageocracy you could plant in the middle of the Forgotten Realms without missing a beat. They just happen to be pastel-green with slightly pointed ears.
Oh, I get that Cymrillians are effectively the humans of the setting. I just observed that even the humans weren't quite human...I can't underline this post enough to exemplify the last 40-years of comments I've heard about Talislanta. And it serves as a reason why I created this thread.
ffilz I'll let you in on a secret. Treat Cymrillians like "humans" and you'll see their culture is not very different than any high-magic culture on the surface. They're a mageocracy you could plant in the middle of the Forgotten Realms without missing a beat. They just happen to be pastel-green with slightly pointed ears.
The flora/fauna thing. I want to hug you because the fact you brought this up tells me you're a details guy. THIS was my first headbender decades ago when I started running it in 1e. "Do deer even exist?!?!?!?!" So my solution was simple. I just interspersed regular fauna with the Talislantan flora and fauna, until I got my head around the ecology better. And I'm confident Steve Sechi won't complain if you toss in a herd of elk running around the woods outside of Cymril.
There still aren't elves in this game either. NO ELVES (/snicker)
I can't even begin to describe how formative this picture was on my young brain...