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Statistics: Talislanta

Core Game Ratings

Rating: 7.71 / Ranking: 14

These ratings are based on 50 ratings with 1.73 average weight and 8 reviews.

This is compared to an index-wide 3.64 average ratings and 1.98 average weight.

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All User Comments

Rating	User	Comments
10 / 10	alberonn	This is my personal favorite RPG of all time. While I love a lot of different systems, the unique setting and the easy-but-powerful rules makes this game a joy to play. What is really cool is that most of the editions are available for free and legal downloading at talislanta.com. Thank you Steve Sechi!
10 / 10	RPG_Wombat	The Big Blue Book of Doom is easily one of the greatest combinations of wide-open setting and elegant rules system. Plus, no elves.
10 / 10	owe for the flesh	The perfect RPG in the perfect book.
10 / 10	Ars Mysteriorum	The best sandbox ever.
10 / 10	Krypter	A fantastic game world with a huge assortment of exotic races, creatures and non-Tolkien influences. This hardback book includes all the rules, GM instructions, a bestiary and a campaign setting that will blow your socks off. Highly recommended.
10 / 10	Nightwalker	Tal 4 is a setting and system that has managed to recreate the excitement I felt when I first discovered tabletop RPG's. Anyone with any love of gaming deserves to have this weighty tome on their bookshelves. Seriously, if you don't have it, you'd better get it now before it's gone forever.
9 / 10	Flexi	A truly unique rpg. Rules only make up 20% of this remarkable book. The rest consists of a bewildering but wonderful amount of imaginative setting material. I am still unconvinced of the validity of the magic system & the character archetypes but who gives two turtle shits about game balance anyway.
9 / 10	Kenny Bania	Great system. Great setting.
9 / 10	Teloric	I was one of the first to purchase this book, hot off the press. Simply put, this is one of the best roleplaying books and systems that I've played in my 24+ years of roleplaying. If you haven't played Talislanta, you are truly missing out...
9 / 10	astromancer	The depth of the world is fantastic, yet open, and provides a unique, magical fantasy realm setting (yet not the standard D&D races) that is mature yet wild, and with more realistic rules (HPs and attributes don't go up, for example, but abilities and expertise do). It also allows for a good deal of GM creativity, but yet with enough structure; and as another commenter said, the GM is not smothered in details, so the game mechanics are not intimidating. There is a learning curve to the setting, but it's not that significant if you just start in one part of the world and focus on it. The community of Talislanta players is a plus, even if the numbers are smaller than some of the biggest games. I would say that certain mechanics aren't specified clearly enough in 4th Ed., but it's not a problem if you can be a little flexible, and the 5th Ed is probably going to clarify those things better anyway.
9 / 10	NathanHill	This is a massive tome, ripe with ideas of for fantasy games of all sorts of subgenres. On its own, it's one of the best fantasy games ever made - an easy to grasp system that can be tweaked in a direction that fits your style, tons of adventure seeds and imaginative places to explore, and truly a game that is time-tested. You should own it - it's worthy.
9 / 10	Rob Doupe	A nice marriage of flexible system with baroque setting. This is the game and setting I would have come up with if I had spent most of my 20s kicking back and letting my muse run free. Thankfully, someone else has done the work. Years and years of wild, fantastic, exotic fantasy gaming in one massive tome.
7 / 10	Piestrio	One of the best one volume games ever written. Big enough to provide years of gaming while giving the GM plenty of materal to work with without smothering him in detail. The setting gets a lot of love, but the rules are also fantastic. It uses a d20 and a simple chart of DCs to determine most everything. A great rules lite system
7 / 10	Sprue Rubbles	It's like reading a fantasy National Geographic. It covers a huge area with just enough details for the GM to customize it as his/her own. One of the best RPG settings.
6 / 10	Simple Man	Big and impressive and scary.
1 / 10	BlueSun	Beyond funky, but basically another fantasy RPG.

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Rating	User	Summary
5 + 5	Steve Zieser	Talislanta. One of the most unique and comprehensive games I've ever seen. Buy it immediately!! [ Read Review ]
5 + 5	Stephen Grady	Talislanta. Extensive RPG core book for the exotic world of Talislanta. [ Read Review ]
4 + 5	Mark "Tipop" Williams	Talislanta. An excellent value, equal to a Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, DM's Guide, and several setting sourcebooks and boxed sets. [ Read Review ]
5 + 5	Horus	Talislanta. A fantasy RPG of a different sort--combining an elegant system with perhaps the most interesting setting in the RPG market. [ Read Review ]
4 + 5	Gilbert J. Otero	Talislanta. If you are searching for a GOOD fantasy RPG besides D20, than seek no further than Talislanta... [ Read Review ]
5 + 5	Alex Hanna	Talislanta. A brilliant fresh fantasy game with a rich background. [ Read Review ]
5 + 5	David Grafter	Talislanta. Looking for an original, riveting fantasy roleplaying game NOT using the d20(tm) System and does NOT contain any elves? Read on...< [ Read Review ]
5 + 5	David Stallard	Talislanta. An incredible game that combines an ingeniously simple rulesystem, an amazingly flexible magic system, and a vast and detailed setting that still gives GMs room to breathe. [ Read Review ]