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Retail: $39.95 U.S. ISBN: 0-9672097-0-6
If you wish, download the Talislanta 4th Edition sampler for free. Right-click on the link and choose "Save Target as...". It contains the rules, some magic, and the Seven Kingdoms section of the worldbook. Only 3MB.
What's New in the 4th Edition?
Plenty. Though the basic mechanics of the game remain largely
unchanged, the 4th Edition includes a number of rules
fixes and revisions; most minor, though there were a couple of
substantial changes as well. Here's a quick checklist:
The biggest change from previous editions is probably John
Harper's new Magic system, which was rewritten from the bottom-up
to make it better-suited to the Talislantan milieu. Though the new
system still uses the Action Table, it is much more open-ended and
offers several new features that weren't available before. John also re-engineered the mechanics to work as a solely skill-based system,
without the need for the now antique level-based system of past
editions. This allows players and Gamemasters more latitiude to
customize characters and make them more unique than ever before.
On the technical end, you don't have to roll dice for damage
anymore. In John's revised Combat system weapons and attacks have a
set Damage Rating that can vary according to the Action Table die roll.
So you only need two types of dice to play now, a d20 and a d10 (or
just a d20, for you math-savvy types).
Talislanta's numerous archetypes received a much-needed going-over
from Adam Sonfield. As a result, both Player-Characters and the
Non-Player Characters are a lot more colorful than in the past and are
much easier to role-play. We’ve also included over fifty new Sample
NPCs for Gamamasters to use in their campaigns.
Last but not least was the reorganization of Talislanta's complex
and sometimes overwhelming milieu into a more cohesive format. The
new Traveler's Guide section handles this admirably, presenting each
region of Talislanta along with its cultures, geography, character-types,
creatures, flora and fauna in one easy-to-use source. It also marks the
return of the wizard Tamerlin, absent from the scene since writing the
Chronicles of Talislanta.
For the first time since the game's inception, Gamemasters and
players finally have a single reference source that covers everything
they need to know about Talislanta. And it only took ten years.
-- SMS, 1998
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