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Talislanta is a fantasy setting by Stephen Michael Sechi, which eschews vanilla generic fantasy tropes in favor of the exotic. This package contains a package deal and race template for the Muses, fairy beings descended from forest nymphs. Delicate in appearance, they nevertheless command formidable mental powers.

Talislanta is a fantasy setting by Stephen Michael Sechi, which eschews vanilla generic fantasy tropes in favor of the exotic. This package contains a package deal and race template for the Thrall, a hybrid race created by an ancient society of decadent sorcerers. The consummate warrior race, they have little aptitude for anything besides combat.

Talislanta is a fantasy setting by Stephen Michael Sechi, which eschews vanilla generic fantasy tropes in favor of the exotic. This package contains a package deal and race template for the Sindarans, a strange race descended from refugees from another world. They possess dual-encephalons, which give them great mental prowess.

Talislanta is a fantasy setting by Stephen Michael Sechi, which eschews vanilla generic fantasy tropes in favor of the exotic. This package contains a package deal and race template for the Aeriad, a species of avian humanoid native to the Seven Kingdoms region. The race is in the process of devolving from a fully avian species to a flightless one. The Blue Aeriad are the more aggressive subspecies.

Talislanta is a fantasy setting by Stephen Michael Sechi, which eschews vanilla generic fantasy tropes in favor of the exotic. This package contains a package deal and race template for the Aeriad, a species of avian humanoid native to the Seven Kingdoms region. The race is in the process of devolving from a fully avian species to a flightless one. The Green Aeriad are the more peaceful subspecies.

Talislanta is a fantasy setting by Stephen Michael Sechi, which eschews vanilla generic fantasy tropes in favor of the exotic. This package contains a package deal and race template for the Gnomekin, a diminutive species of underground dweller. Friendly and open, they nonetheless fight an unceasing battle against dangerous underground species.

These martial arts are from the Talislanta game, originally published by Bard Games in 1987. Talislanta was an attempt to make a fantasy setting very different from the vanilla fantasy settings then dominating the market -- the tagline for the game/setting is "Talislanta. Still No Elves!" Among the many elements of the setting are martial arts systems. Back in the 90s, I converted several of them for the 4th edition Hero System, then when 5th edition was published I uploaded several of them to the Hero Games webpage Digital Hero ezine. Sadly, those submissions are lost to the Internet Archive.
 
When 6th edition was made, I updated the martial arts yet again (adding Aerial Combat and renaming Zandir Bladesmanship to Swordsmanship, as per the then-recently-updated Talislanta rules), and uploaded them to the boards. They didn't survive the changeover, but I see that they're still popular enough to warrant being resurrected. So, here they are. The prefab file contains:
Aerial Combat: The fighting art of skilled warriors of the flying races (Aerdians, Stryx, Gryphs, etc.)
Arimite Knife-Fighting: Provided in both melee and ranged flavors, the lethal fighting style of the dour Arimites is presented.
Swordsmanship: The flamboyant fencing style of the Cymril swordsmages, Zandir bravos, and Gao-Dinian corsairs.
Tazian Combat: The brutal and effective hand-to-hand style of the Thralls of Taz.

If you want to try a different setting (it's based on an easy-to-learn rules system, but can readily be converted to Hero System), I recommend you give it a try. Most of the books for it are available for free on-line, by the grace of setting creator Stephen Michael Sechi.
 
A pdf of the martial arts styles, formatted in standard Hero style, can be found here.

In the brawls that spring up in the yard over the lunch money each kid brings to school, it is the girl who fights with the most savagery, the most viciousness, who wins. The little girls, who have practiced their craft, develop the maneuvers and techniques that make up the essence of this art. They tend to be the ones walking away with a jingling purse while their opponents lie bleeding and unconscious on the asphalt behind them.
 
You can see this martial art at Surbrook's Stuff.
For a pdf of the martial art in standard Hero format, click on the Dropbox link.

A primitive robot for your pulp games, from the May 1924 issue of "Science & Technology" magazine, edited by Hugo Gernsback.

This is the Aeromobil V2.5, a roadable aircraft that achieved its first flight in 2013.

This is a prefab file for the Martin Jetpack, a prototype personal flight system that is projected to be fully operational in mid-2014. The stats are based on the characteristics of the experimental prototype.

A giant ant from the Atomic Robo comic book. Could also be from the movie Them!

Created to go along with the World of Darkness - Wraith package deal.

Some time ago, I was looking through the list of Dark Champions professional package deals, and realized one very interesting option was missing -- Astronauts. I did research on astronaut training and found quite a lot of detail online. Putting it together, I worked up the package deal and this is the result.