As noted on some other illustrious blogs, Talislanta - The Free Edition, was released and I just popped over to download it.
This was another of the games that I always wanted to play but never had the opportunity to get involved with. I had all, and still have, all of the original rule books but no one in my gaming group wanted to venture far enough away from D&D to try it out. The excuse was always the same "It's a fantasy game just like D&D, why bother learning a new system, lets just play D&D"
So all I ever really got to do is read the rule books and look at the artwork. Some of which was absolutely spectacular...