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Talislanta
''Talislanta'' is a fantasy role-playing game written by Stephen Michael Sechi and published by Bard Games in 1987. There have been six different English-language editions and several foreign language editions published. All English-language products of ''Talislanta'' are now freely available via a Creative Commons licence. Publishing history 1st edition (Bard Games) In 1982 Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Vernie Taylor formed the company Bard Games to produce their own '' Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements. In 1986, due to personal and financial disagreements that arose after the publication of ''The Atlantis Trilogy'', Sechi sold his shares in Bard Games to Cordovano and left to begin work on a new role-playing game system and its supplements. Cordovano decided that he did not want to run Bard Games and sold it back to Sechi, giving Sechi the opportunity to publish his new game, ''Talislanta''. After publication of the rules in ''The Talislantan Handbook'' in 1987, Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talislanta Sorcerer's Guide
''Talislanta Sorcerer's Guide'' is a supplement published by Bard Games in 1988 for the fantasy role-playing game ''Talislanta''. Publication history In 1982, Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Vernie Taylor formed the company Bard Games to produce their own ''Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements. In 1986, due to personal and financial disagreements that arose after the publication of ''The Atlantis Trilogy'', Sechi sold his shares in Bard Games to Cordovano and left} to begin work on another role-playing game system and its supplements. When Cordovano decided that he did not want to run Bard Games and sold it back to Sechi, Sechi had the opportunity to publish his new his new role-playing game, ''Talislanta''. After publication of the game rules in ''The Talislantan Handbook'' in 1987, Sechi also published three supplements: '' A Naturalist's Guide to Talislanta'', '' The Chronicles of Talislanta'', and ''Talislanta Sorcerer's Guide''. Contents ''Talislanta Sorcerer's Gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Naturalist's Guide To Talislanta
''A Naturalist's Guide to Talislanta'' is a supplement published by Bard Games in 1987 for the fantasy role-playing game ''Talislanta''. Publication history In 1982, Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Vernie Taylor formed the company Bard Games to produce their own ''Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements. In 1986, due to personal and financial disagreements that arose after the publication of ''The Atlantis Trilogy'', Sechi sold his shares in Bard Games to Cordovano and left} to begin work on another role-playing game system and its supplements. When Cordovano decided that he did not want to run Bard Games and sold it back to Sechi, Sechi had the opportunity to publish his new his new game, ''Talislanta''. After publication of the rules of the role-playing game in ''The Talislantan Handbook'' in 1987, Sechi also published three supplements: ''A Naturalist's Guide to Talislanta'', ''The Chronicles of Talislanta'', and ''Talislanta Sorcerer's Guide''. Contents ''A Naturalist's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cyclopedia Talislanta
''The Cyclopedia Talislanta'' is a supplement published by Bard Games in 1988 for the fantasy role-playing game ''Talislanta''. Contents ''The Cyclopedia Talislanta'', by Stephan Michael Sechi and with cover art by P.D. Breeding-Black, is the fifth supplement about the world of Talislanta. Information includes * places of interest in Talislanta * new monsters, animals, and plants * New character types * new skills and abilities There are full-color maps of sections of Talislanta which join together to create a full map of the continent. Reception Stewart Wieck reviewed ''The Cyclopedia Talislanta'' for '' White Wolf'' #14, rating it 4 overall, and stated that "Ownership of this book is a necessity for gamers with campaigns set in Talislanta. Other gamers should take a look just to see what Talislanta offers." In the May 1989 edition of '' Dragon'' (Issue #145), Jim Bambra applauded the "excellent interior illustrations", and the wide range of new material. He concluded "GMs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chronicles Of Talislanta
''The Chronicles of Talislanta'' is a supplement published by Bard Games in 1987 for the fantasy role-playing game ''Talislanta''. Publication history In 1982 Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Vernie Taylor formed the company Bard Games to produce their own '' Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements. In 1986, due to personal and financial disagreements that arose after the publication of ''The Atlantis Trilogy'', Sechi sold his shares in Bard Games to Cordovano and left, to begin work on another role-playing game system and its supplements. When Cordovano decided that he did not want to run Bard Games and sold it back to Sechi, Sechi had the opportunity to publish his new game, ''Talislanta''. Contents ''The Chronicles of Talislanta'' is an 88-page perfect-bound softcover book with illustrations by P.D. Breeding-Black that is an introduction to the continent of Talislanta, the countries and kingdoms and their people. The content is presented as the recollections of the wizard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Talislantan Handbook
''The Talislantan Handbook'' is a supplement published by Bard Games in 1987 for the fantasy role-playing game ''Talislanta''. Publication History In 1982 Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Vernie Taylor formed the company Bard Games to produce their own '' Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements. In 1986, due to personal and financial disagreements that arose after the publication of '' The Atlantis Trilogy'', Sechi sold his shares in Bard Games to Cordovano and left, to begin work on another role-playing game system and its supplements. When Cordovano decided that he did not want to run Bard Games and sold it back to Sechi, Sechi had the opportunity to publish his new game, ''Talislanta''. After publication of the rules in ''The Talislantan Handbook'' in 1987, Sechi also published three supplements: ''The Chronicles of Talislanta'' , ''A Naturalist's Guide to Talislanta'', and ''Talislanta Sorcerer's Guide''. Contents ''The Talislantan Handbook'' is an 88-page perfect-bou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Michael Sechi
Stephan Michael Sechi is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career In 1982, Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Vernie Taylor each put in $600 and formed the company Bard Games to produce their own ''Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements. Sechi and Cordovano's ''The Compleat Alchemist'' (1983) was the company's first product and presented a new character class: a magic-item maker. Sechi's ''The Compleat Adventurer'' (1983) offered a number of variant classes for thieves and fighters, while Sechi and Taylor's ''The Compleat Spell Caster'' (1983) presented many variant magic-user classes. Sechi oversaw Bard's next project, ''The Atlantis Trilogy'' for Bard Games, which took three years to complete but eventually the three books were published as '' The Arcanum'' (1984), '' The Lexicon'' (1985), and '' The Bestiary'' (1986). Due to personal and financial disagreements that arose in the wake of his completion of ''The Atlantis Trilogy'', Sechi sold hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Michael Sechi
Stephan Michael Sechi is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career In 1982, Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Vernie Taylor each put in $600 and formed the company Bard Games to produce their own '' Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements. Sechi and Cordovano's '' The Compleat Alchemist'' (1983) was the company's first product and presented a new character class: a magic-item maker. Sechi's '' The Compleat Adventurer'' (1983) offered a number of variant classes for thieves and fighters, while Sechi and Taylor's '' The Compleat Spell Caster'' (1983) presented many variant magic-user classes. Sechi oversaw Bard's next project, '' The Atlantis Trilogy'' for Bard Games, which took three years to complete but eventually the three books were published as '' The Arcanum'' (1984), '' The Lexicon'' (1985), and '' The Bestiary'' (1986). Due to personal and financial disagreements that arose in the wake of his completion of ''The Atlantis Trilogy'', Sech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bard Games
Bard Games was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. Products Bard Games was formed in 1982 by Steven Cordovano, Vernie Taylor and Stephan Michael Sechi, who each put up $600. Their intention was to market generic fantasy role-playing supplements that could be adapted for any game system. Their first product was '' The Compleat Alchemist''. In 1984, Bard Games published the fantasy role-playing game (RPG) '' Atlantis''. Over the next three years, two more ''Atlantis'' volumes were published, creating ''The Atlantis Trilogy''. Due to personal and financial disagreements that arose in the wake of the trilogy, Sechi sold his shares in Bard Games to Cordovano and left. Over the next three months Sechi began work on another trilogy of supplements that would form the basis of a new RPG. At the same time, Cordovano decided that he did not want to run Bard Games and sold it back to Sechi, who now had a publishing house to produce a new game. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Tweet
Jonathan Tweet (born 1965) is an American game designer who has been involved in the development of the role-playing games ''Ars Magica'', ''Everway'', '' Over the Edge'', ''Talislanta'', the third edition of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and '' 13th Age'', and the collectible miniatures game '' Dreamblade''. In 2015 Tweet released ''Grandmother Fish'', a full-color, full-sized book about evolution aimed at preschoolers. In 2018 Tweet released ''Clades'' and ''Clades Prehistoric'', two card games for children and adults which demonstrate the concept of a clade. Early life Native to Rock Island, Illinois, Tweet is the son of Roald Tweet, an Augustana College professor emeritus and local historian, and Margaret Tweet. Jonathan Tweet started playing ''D&D'' in the 1970s, when his father gave him his first ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game. He then formed his own gaming group by recruiting classmates. Tweet graduated from Rock Island High School class valedictorian in 1983. He majored in psyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dying Earth
''Dying Earth'' is a fantasy series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published from 1950 to 1984. Some have been called picaresque. They vary from short story collections to a fix-up (novel created from older short stories), perhaps all the way to novel. Retrieved 2012-05-09. The first book in the series, ''The Dying Earth'', was ranked number 16 of 33 "All Time Best Fantasy Novels" by ''Locus'' in 1987, based on a poll of subscribers, although it was marketed as a collection and the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) calls it a "loosely connected series of stories". Setting The stories of the ''Dying Earth'' series are set in the distant future, at a point when the sun is almost exhausted and magic has asserted itself as a dominant force. The Moon has disappeared and the Sun is in danger of burning out at any time, often flickering as if about to go out, before shining again. The various civilizations of Earth have collapsed fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Laws
Robin D. Laws (born October 14, 1964 in Orillia, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer and game designer who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of a number of novels and role-playing games as well as an anthologist. Career Robin D. Laws has been a professional game designer and an author since the early 1990s. Game designer Robin D. Laws has been playing role-playing games since he was a teenager and has worked as a game designer since the early 1990s. John Nephew of Atlas Games convinced Jonathan Tweet to publish a game he had been writing about in '' Alarums & Excursions''; Laws talked with Tweet about the game in ''A&E'' and contributed to the final product as well, the result of which was '' Over the Edge'' (1992). Daedalus Games began when Laws approached Jose Garcia in 1993 with an idea for a Hong Kong Action Cinema RPG; while Garcia liked the idea, his first priority was his own setting, '' Nexus: The Infinite City'' which was published in 1994 with Garcia as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daedalus Entertainment
Daedalus Entertainment was a Canadian game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. History Daedalus Games began when Robin Laws approached Jose Garcia in 1993 with an idea for a Hong Kong Action Cinema RPG; Garcia liked the idea, but the RPG '' Nexus: The Infinite City'' was his first priority, and was published in 1994 with Garcia as the main designer and developer, with Laws, Bruce Baugh, and Rob Heinsoo as additional authors. Daedalus Games was incorporated as Daedalus Entertainment in preparation for publishing the Hong Kong action game Laws had intended, but Garcia liked the setting that Laws was working on and decided to use it as a basis of a collectible card game to take advantage of the CCG market and Daedalus published this game as ''Shadowfist'' (1995). Daedalus Entertainment published the role-playing game '' Feng Shui'' (1996), designed by Laws using a variant of the ''Nexus'' game system; Laws also designed supplements for ''Feng Shui''. When t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |