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128.164.227.82: /* The Premise */

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The Premise

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	Okay, we know that last-man-standing board games generally suck (see; [[Monopoly]], [[Risk]]). But consider this; imagine if Monopoly had a single property which was ridiculously difficult to obtain, requiring you to put your character at severe personal risk to obtain it -- but then, once you got it, you could vacuum all of the cash out of every other player's wallet. Imagine that the reputation of that property was so terrifying that, in 90% of games, every other player would immediately retire when one person made the push to the legendary property. Talisman is kinda like that, and the legendary property is called the Crown of Command.		Okay, we know that last-man-standing board games generally suck (see; [[Monopoly]], [[Risk]]). But consider this; imagine if Monopoly had a single property which was ridiculously difficult to obtain, requiring you to put your character at severe personal risk to obtain it -- but then, once you got it, you could vacuum all of the cash out of every other player's wallet. Imagine that the reputation of that property was so terrifying that, in 90% of games, every other player would immediately retire when one person made the push to the legendary property. Talisman is kinda like that, and the legendary property is called the Crown of Command.

	It's a pretty simple idea. You are a dude (or ~~woman~~) in search of the fabled Crown of Command, which you can use to kill someone anywhere in the world (thus knocking them all out of the competition). You explore the land (board) gaining objects and experience in order to tackle the rougher areas in the middle. You can kill other players, fight all manner of critters, find nifty objects, learn spells, get weapons, and generally get really stabby. The board is in three tiers; the outer "grassland" tier, where things are generally safe, the central "wasteland" tier, where there's more treasure but also more danger, and the central "fuckland" tier, where you have to push through four incredibly tough challenges to get the Crown of Command. The Crown's power usually makes the other players concede the game, unless one of them is currently pushing their way through Fuckland to challenge you for the Crown. If there are two players sharing the Crown square, they ''must'' fight to the death for it.		It's a pretty simple idea. You are a dude (or dudette) in search of the fabled Crown of Command, which you can use to kill someone anywhere in the world (thus knocking them all out of the competition). You explore the land (board) gaining objects and experience in order to tackle the rougher areas in the middle. You can kill other players, fight all manner of critters, find nifty objects, learn spells, get weapons, and generally get really stabby. The board is in three tiers; the outer "grassland" tier, where things are generally safe, the central "wasteland" tier, where there's more treasure but also more danger, and the central "fuckland" tier, where you have to push through four incredibly tough challenges to get the Crown of Command. The Crown's power usually makes the other players concede the game, unless one of them is currently pushing their way through Fuckland to challenge you for the Crown. If there are two players sharing the Crown square, they ''must'' fight to the death for it.

	(If you're playing one of the expansions, [http://www.talismanwiki.com/Category%3AAlternative_Ending_Card you can also have other victory conditions]; usually, either a variant of the classic Crown ending above, first to beat the BBEG wins, or a race to complete certain conditions and then get to the Crown; hidden victory conditions are allowed, but [http://www.talismanwiki.com/Horrible_Black_Void not recommended].)		(If you're playing one of the expansions, [http://www.talismanwiki.com/Category%3AAlternative_Ending_Card you can also have other victory conditions]; usually, either a variant of the classic Crown ending above, first to beat the BBEG wins, or a race to complete certain conditions and then get to the Crown; hidden victory conditions are allowed, but [http://www.talismanwiki.com/Horrible_Black_Void not recommended].)

83.7.35.50: Polish versions

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Polish versions

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	===Fifth Edition?===		===Fifth Edition?===
	Talisman is coming back. Fantasy Flight and GW don't work together anymore, so GW is doing this solo. We know exactly zero about it, and could be set in [[Age of Sigmar]], the original setting, or something completely different. GW seems to be loving these Fantasy board games now.		Talisman is coming back. Fantasy Flight and GW don't work together anymore, so GW is doing this solo. We know exactly zero about it, and could be set in [[Age of Sigmar]], the original setting, or something completely different. GW seems to be loving these Fantasy board games now.

			== Meanwhile in Poland ==
			*'''Magia i Miecz''': In 1989 Sfera acquired the license for Polish version of Talisman. For whatever reason instead of simply translating it they redrew all the art, packaged the base game with the Expansion Set and published it as Magia i Miecz (Magic and Sword). The result proved popular, so all the expansions were localised in similar manner and Sfera even made their own original expansion Jaskinia (Cave).
			*'''Magiczny Miecz''': Sometime around 1993 Sfera lost their license. Undeterred, they slightly modified the game (you're now moving from the middle of the board towards the edge and your goal is to slay the Beast), redrew the art again and changed the name to Magiczny Miecz (Magic Sword). Most of the original expansions were also re-released, although (with the exception of Jaskinia) they had their names slightly altered and their art redrawn once more. Finally, there was another expansion unique to Magiczny Miecz, Krypta Upiorów (Crypt of Ghosts).
			*'''Talisman: Magia i Miecz''': Due to the cult status of the original game, when Galakta localised the Revised Fourth Edition (the third edition did not get a Polish version) they titled it Talisman: Magia i Miecz, although the game is otherwise just a translation of English version.

	{{Board Games}}		{{Board Games}}

	[[Category:Games Workshop]]		[[Category:Games Workshop]]

2001:16B8:18BE:5700:9DAA:6C5C:E331:9779: /* Small Box expansions */

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Small Box expansions

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	Spicy boys and fire elementals.		Spicy boys and fire elementals.
	*The Harbinger		*The Harbinger
	A game of talisman typically lasts for about 1-2 ~~hors~~. This expansion can make it last for a mere 30 minutes. The Harbinger NPC now roams the land of Talisman, forcing you to draw from his pack of Omen Cards, which gradually turn the world into a wasteland. On the final omen, the end of the world comes and the game ends.		A game of talisman typically lasts for about 1-2 hours. This expansion can make it last for a mere 30 minutes. The Harbinger NPC now roams the land of Talisman, forcing you to draw from his pack of Omen Cards, which gradually turn the world into a wasteland. On the final omen, the end of the world comes and the game ends.

	====Large Box expansions====		====Large Box expansions====

1d4chan>GloriousGidofter: /* The Premise */

2020-12-29T00:06:31Z

The Premise

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	It's a pretty simple idea. You are a dude (or woman) in search of the fabled Crown of Command, which you can use to kill someone anywhere in the world (thus knocking them all out of the competition). You explore the land (board) gaining objects and experience in order to tackle the rougher areas in the middle. You can kill other players, fight all manner of critters, find nifty objects, learn spells, get weapons, and generally get really stabby. The board is in three tiers; the outer "grassland" tier, where things are generally safe, the central "wasteland" tier, where there's more treasure but also more danger, and the central "fuckland" tier, where you have to push through four incredibly tough challenges to get the Crown of Command. The Crown's power usually makes the other players concede the game, unless one of them is currently pushing their way through Fuckland to challenge you for the Crown. If there are two players sharing the Crown square, they ''must'' fight to the death for it.		It's a pretty simple idea. You are a dude (or woman) in search of the fabled Crown of Command, which you can use to kill someone anywhere in the world (thus knocking them all out of the competition). You explore the land (board) gaining objects and experience in order to tackle the rougher areas in the middle. You can kill other players, fight all manner of critters, find nifty objects, learn spells, get weapons, and generally get really stabby. The board is in three tiers; the outer "grassland" tier, where things are generally safe, the central "wasteland" tier, where there's more treasure but also more danger, and the central "fuckland" tier, where you have to push through four incredibly tough challenges to get the Crown of Command. The Crown's power usually makes the other players concede the game, unless one of them is currently pushing their way through Fuckland to challenge you for the Crown. If there are two players sharing the Crown square, they ''must'' fight to the death for it.

	(If you're playing one of the expansions, [http://www.talismanwiki.com/Category%3AAlternative_Ending_Card you can also have other victory conditions]; usually, either a variant of the classic Crown ending above, first to beat the BBEG wins, or a race to complete certain conditions and then get to the Crown; hidden victory conditions are allowed, but [http://www.talismanwiki.com/Horrible_Black_Void not recommended]].)		(If you're playing one of the expansions, [http://www.talismanwiki.com/Category%3AAlternative_Ending_Card you can also have other victory conditions]; usually, either a variant of the classic Crown ending above, first to beat the BBEG wins, or a race to complete certain conditions and then get to the Crown; hidden victory conditions are allowed, but [http://www.talismanwiki.com/Horrible_Black_Void not recommended].)

	== The Editions ==		== The Editions ==

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	Talisman is a board game created by Bob Harris back in nineteen dickety two. In his nerdy college days, he wanted to make a way to play a quick and dirty D&D game, and so made a board game with variable stats, gold, and alignment constraints, a central quest, and different characters that began with different abilities. The lord saw it and said, hey, that's fuckwin, and planted the idea in Mr. Harris's head to go to Games Workshop, insidiously sneaking a gaming magazine into his stack of porno.		Talisman is a board game created by Bob Harris back in nineteen dickety two. In his nerdy college days, he wanted to make a way to play a quick and dirty D&D game, and so made a board game with variable stats, gold, and alignment constraints, a central quest, and different characters that began with different abilities. The lord saw it and said, hey, that's fuckwin, and planted the idea in Mr. Harris's head to go to Games Workshop, insidiously sneaking a gaming magazine into his stack of porno.
	Games Workshop said, "Fuck! [[TSR]] is stomping our assholes flat and all we're doing is making figures for them, and reprinting American [[RPG]]s, maybe this'll be good? We'll cross promote it with our Warhammer idea." With the Warhammer Fantasy fluff in the board game, they ran off a few copies, which sold out to rabid fans fairly quickly. With the money and cross promotion, [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and Talisman helped Games Workshop get into the US market, and then annoy everyone with their other [[Warhammer 40K]] shit. Black Library (operating under the trade-imprint Black Industries) released a fourth edition, but when they shut Black Industries down, all of the rights ''(along with [[Dark Heresy]])'' were licensed to [[Fantasy Flight Games]], who reprinted and reskinned it with the Warhammer 40,000 grimdarkness and called it '[[Relic]]'. And with licensing to FFG ended, a fifth edition is in the works.		Games Workshop said, "Fuck! [[TSR]] is stomping our assholes flat and all we're doing is making figures for them, and reprinting American [[RPG]]s, maybe this'll be good? We'll cross promote it with our Warhammer idea." With the Warhammer Fantasy fluff in the board game, they ran off a few copies, which sold out to rabid fans fairly quickly. With the money and cross promotion, [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and Talisman helped Games Workshop get into the US market, and then annoy everyone with their other [[Warhammer 40K]] shit. Black Library (operating under the trade-imprint Black Industries) released a fourth edition, but when they shut Black Industries down, all of the rights ''(along with [[Dark Heresy]])'' were licensed to [[Fantasy Flight Games]], who reprinted and reskinned it with the Warhammer 40,000 grimdarkness and called it '[[Relic]]'. And with licensing to FFG ended, a fifth edition is in the works.

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On behalf of Björn

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			{{needsimages}}
	Talisman is a board game created by Bob Harris back in nineteen dickety two. In his nerdy college days, he wanted to make a way to play a quick and dirty D&D game, and so made a board game with variable stats, gold, and alignment constraints, a central quest, and different characters that began with different abilities. The lord saw it and said, hey, that's fuckwin, and planted the idea in Mr. Harris's head to go to Games Workshop, insidiously sneaking a gaming magazine into his stack of porno.		Talisman is a board game created by Bob Harris back in nineteen dickety two. In his nerdy college days, he wanted to make a way to play a quick and dirty D&D game, and so made a board game with variable stats, gold, and alignment constraints, a central quest, and different characters that began with different abilities. The lord saw it and said, hey, that's fuckwin, and planted the idea in Mr. Harris's head to go to Games Workshop, insidiously sneaking a gaming magazine into his stack of porno.
	Games Workshop said, "Fuck! [[TSR]] is stomping our assholes flat and all we're doing is making figures for them, and reprinting American [[RPG]]s, maybe this'll be good? We'll cross promote it with our Warhammer idea." With the Warhammer Fantasy fluff in the board game, they ran off a few copies, which sold out to rabid fans fairly quickly. With the money and cross promotion, [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and Talisman helped Games Workshop get into the US market, and then annoy everyone with their other [[Warhammer 40K]] shit. Black Library (operating under the trade-imprint Black Industries) released a fourth edition, but when they shut Black Industries down, all of the rights ''(along with [[Dark Heresy]])'' were licensed to [[Fantasy Flight Games]], who reprinted and reskinned it with the Warhammer 40,000 grimdarkness and called it '[[Relic]]'. And with licensing to FFG ended, a fifth edition is in the works.		Games Workshop said, "Fuck! [[TSR]] is stomping our assholes flat and all we're doing is making figures for them, and reprinting American [[RPG]]s, maybe this'll be good? We'll cross promote it with our Warhammer idea." With the Warhammer Fantasy fluff in the board game, they ran off a few copies, which sold out to rabid fans fairly quickly. With the money and cross promotion, [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and Talisman helped Games Workshop get into the US market, and then annoy everyone with their other [[Warhammer 40K]] shit. Black Library (operating under the trade-imprint Black Industries) released a fourth edition, but when they shut Black Industries down, all of the rights ''(along with [[Dark Heresy]])'' were licensed to [[Fantasy Flight Games]], who reprinted and reskinned it with the Warhammer 40,000 grimdarkness and called it '[[Relic]]'. And with licensing to FFG ended, a fifth edition is in the works.

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	Talisman is a board game created by Bob Harris back in nineteen dickety two. In his nerdy college days, he wanted to make a way to play a quick and dirty D&D game, and so made a board game with variable stats, gold, and alignment constraints, a central quest, and different characters that began with different abilities. The lord saw it and said, hey, that's fuckwin, and planted the idea in Mr. Harris's head to go to Games Workshop, insidiously sneaking a gaming magazine into his stack of porno.		Talisman is a board game created by Bob Harris back in nineteen dickety two. In his nerdy college days, he wanted to make a way to play a quick and dirty D&D game, and so made a board game with variable stats, gold, and alignment constraints, a central quest, and different characters that began with different abilities. The lord saw it and said, hey, that's fuckwin, and planted the idea in Mr. Harris's head to go to Games Workshop, insidiously sneaking a gaming magazine into his stack of porno.
	Games Workshop said, "Fuck! [[TSR]] is stomping our assholes flat and all we're doing is making figures for them, and reprinting American [[RPG]]s, maybe this'll be good? We'll cross promote it with our Warhammer idea." With the Warhammer Fantasy fluff in the board game, they ran off a few copies, which sold out to rabid fans fairly quickly. With the money and cross promotion, [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and Talisman helped Games Workshop get into the US market, and then annoy everyone with their other [[Warhammer 40K]] shit. Black Library (operating under the trade-imprint Black Industries) released a fourth edition, but when they shut Black Industries down, all of the rights ''(along with [[Dark Heresy]])'' were licensed to [[Fantasy Flight Games]], who reprinted and reskinned it with the Warhammer 40,000 grimdarkness and called it '[[Relic]]'.		Games Workshop said, "Fuck! [[TSR]] is stomping our assholes flat and all we're doing is making figures for them, and reprinting American [[RPG]]s, maybe this'll be good? We'll cross promote it with our Warhammer idea." With the Warhammer Fantasy fluff in the board game, they ran off a few copies, which sold out to rabid fans fairly quickly. With the money and cross promotion, [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and Talisman helped Games Workshop get into the US market, and then annoy everyone with their other [[Warhammer 40K]] shit. Black Library (operating under the trade-imprint Black Industries) released a fourth edition, but when they shut Black Industries down, all of the rights ''(along with [[Dark Heresy]])'' were licensed to [[Fantasy Flight Games]], who reprinted and reskinned it with the Warhammer 40,000 grimdarkness and called it '[[Relic]]'. And with licensing to FFG ended, a fifth edition is in the works.

	== The Premise ==		== The Premise ==

61.6.235.199: /* Fifth Edition? */

2019-11-02T07:41:42Z

Fifth Edition?

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	===Fifth Edition?===		===Fifth Edition?===
	Talisman is coming back. Fantasy Flight and GW don't work together anymore, so GW is doing this solo. We know exactly zero about it, and could be set in Age of Sigmar, the original setting, or something completely different. GW seems to be loving these Fantasy board games now.		Talisman is coming back. Fantasy Flight and GW don't work together anymore, so GW is doing this solo. We know exactly zero about it, and could be set in [[Age of Sigmar]], the original setting, or something completely different. GW seems to be loving these Fantasy board games now.

	{{Board Games}}		{{Board Games}}

	[[Category:Games Workshop]]		[[Category:Games Workshop]]