Re: Talisman - how many versions? :o

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Jul 18, 2009; 3:06pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Talisman-how-many-versions-o-tp3208919p3280927.html

How many versions?

Not counting all the world wide translations (Talisman has been even been translated into Hebrew apparently) there are 4 editions of Talisman... well 4 and a half


 ^ The goblins guard my hoard of gaming treasures

1 st edition Talisman came out in 1983 (the same year as Warhammer 1st edition and myself!) followed by the re-art-work'd 2nd edition in 85 and then fans had a long wait until 1994 for 3rd. 3rd was then released in the US and Canada in around 2001 (I got hold of my copy of 3 rd at this time with the help of my brother who lives in Canada!). 2007 saw the long awaited 4th edition published by GW's off-shoot company Black Industries and then when BI disappeared during GW's recent foot-shooting in 2008 Fantasy Flight Games took over the Talisman licence (along with WFRP and Dark Heresy) and released Revised 4th edition with slight rule changes and some nice plastic miniatures of the characters and even 4 Toads. Fantasy Flight also rather kindly released an upgrade pack to update regular 4 th edition with the revised cards, fate point rules and the miniatures. I've just about managed to cram the contents of the upgrade pack into the 4 th edition box which is why it doesn't quite close.

Fantasy Flight's Revised 4th edition Talisman is still in production and hopefully will be for some time to come so no need to crawl around eBay just yet ...

I like playing the Troll mostly and the Inquizitor in 2 nd edition. The Champion of Chaos event making you a Chaos Warrior is also great fun.
The All Character events makes Talisman feel like it's taking place in a real living fantasy world - Taxation may not be high fantasy, but it is gritty and medieval and I feel it fits in the game nicely.