NEW TALISLANTA WEBSITE, ART BOOK, and more

[Silverlion]

anyone know when the new webpage will be up?

I'd like to know as well.

[Lord Alberonn]

This is great news. Will the PDFs include the Tal. e-books as well? I have bought Riding the Sky from Drive Through RPG and some of the others did look good.

[Lord Alberonn]

I have another question: will we also see some of Sechi's other stuff pop up??? (The Atlantis Trilology anyone?)

[Lord Alberonn]

Is the Tal. 10th Anniversary edition going to be part of the collection? I don't have a scanner, but if we get one, I actually have a copy of the book.

[Kilgs]

From the Yahoo list and Scott Agnew (Morrigan Press)

To clarify, the Atlantis intellectual property, including The Lexicon, The
Bestiary, Atlantis: The Lost World and Atlantis: The Second Age are the
exclusive property of Morrigan Press. We currently have no plans to release
this material to the public domain but a new game that would incorporate the
Atlantis material is not out of the question right now.

All Talislanta titles except the 5th edition books, The Northern Reaches, The
Revised Chronicles, The Menagerie, Talislanta d20 Edition, The Weight of Water,
Codex Magicus and a handful of PDF titles are SMS's now. The above titles
revert to SMS on January 1, 2010.

[Lord Alberonn]

It there any sort of ETA on the new website coming up? Is it coming up really soon or do we still have a few months?

[Tipop]

The new website is scheduled to go live on April 1st (really, no joke.)

Right now it's fairly bare-bones, with a brief introduction to Talislanta, a Downloads page with the PDFs, and a Images page with the following:

1) My full-color map, available for download at full resolution (almost 20 meg, with JPG compression.)

2) The same map, but broken into 8 individual pages to make it easier to handle.

3) An illustration I did for the Gold Lumens of the 7 Kingdoms, showing the front and backs.

[Lucifer_Draconu]

Just checked out the new site today..nice work. I still want to know if Khepra is going to publish a new edition of Talislanta or just host the forums & publish the art book n' such ?

[writermonk]

From what we understand, just an art book and hosting these forums.

The Talislanta.com site is up and running with free pdf downloads of most of the Talislanta titles of yesteryear.

[Jerry D. Grayson]

Just checked out the new site today...nice work. I still want to know if Khepera is going to publish a new edition of Talislanta or just host the forums & publish the art book n' such ?

We were originally going to do a revamp of the RPG but it was decided we should only take on the artbook.

I?m happy with the decision because it would have been a lot of work and I would have probably ruined the game.

[Tipop]

If I were going to do a "revamp" of the RPG, I would take the following route:

1) Use Tal4 as a starting point, but break it into Player, GM, and Monster books the way Tal5 did. Though I loved the "complete RPG in a single book" approach to Tal4, it makes more economic sense to break it up. The player's book would include the game system, Talislanta setting, and archetypes. The magic system would be largely Tal5 (which is mostly just Tal4 + Codex Magicus.) The GM's book would include historical information, optional character creation rules, optional magic rules (Archaen magic), and information on the Omniverse. Also some GMing tips, campaign suggestions, adventure seeds, guides for encounter design, etc.

2) Have three methods of character creation - Tal4 Archetypes (in the player's book), Tal5 paths (GM's book), and a set of guidelines on how to modify the archetypes to fit a player's concept, allowing total freedom within the limits of Talislanta's setting (also in the GM's book.)

3) Get some writers and artists lined up to write supplements. This is the hardest part, but it's really the only way to keep Talislanta books on shelves.

That's about it, I think. Not a lot of new material to write, just editing existing material. People who already own the existing books wouldn't get a lot that is new, but new players would have a more complete edition than 5E. (Plus a new edition means it's back on game store shelves, at least as long as we can keep new supplements coming.)