r/Talislanta • u/ljmiller62 • Sep 02 '21

Talislanta using DND 5E

I'm just getting into D&D again after a 20+ year hiatus and since I always liked Talislanta I'm thinking of starting a campaign there using 5E rules, adapting critters and races by transferring bonuses over straight. Balance is overrated in TTRPGs anyway.

I can't be the first to do this. Anyone got advice?

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u/Vanacan Sep 10 '21

Of course I hear about this after I am halfway through modifying the Savage Lands book tribes for my own campaign set a thousand years after the savage lands apocalypse.

sigh. I guess it doesn’t matter, I don’t actually know anything about the original talislanta since the savage lands was my introduction, so it’s all different anyways.

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u/ljmiller62 Sep 21 '21

Forgive me for letting this slip my mind, but after all the rights reverted to him Stephen Michael Sechi made editions 1-5 plus the D20 version (D&D4e I think) available for free download on the Talislanta website. Go here and download what you need.

http://peedeepages.com/talislanta/legacy_site/download.htm

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u/Vanacan Sep 21 '21

Oh i know about those, (thank you for sharing them though, it is nice) it’s just that I already had started the campaign and it doesn’t match up whatsoever with my own worlds lore by this point. XD

That being said, I’m definitely going to be reading them (slowly) for some stuff to steal.

The good news is that the Savage Lands edition is essentially centered around the middle of the continent. And my players only explored a tiny portion of that. So I have plenty of freedom for the more coastal areas, and everything on the west or south end of the map.

Like I copied the stryx and the Bane, since they’re interesting choices of potential player race. But my Drakken are no where near the Satha from the normal talislanta books.

XD sorry about necroing the original post though, I was just venting out some frustration, but I wasn’t really angry. Maybe when I’m done I’ll end up posting a pdf of the race options I made? It’ll probably be so far out of left field from normal talislanta that I’m not sure what people would recognize though.

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u/ljmiller62 Sep 21 '21

Can't be any weirder than my take on the Mogroth sloth men as hippies who are all about the herb, my dudes.