Until about 6months ago I was a die hard 2nd fan. I had purchased 4th edition some months before, but what with all the homebrew content that I was just becomming accustomed too, I hadn't bothered with 4th edition. That being said in the end I gave 4th a try with a couple of friends and fell in love with it!

Pretty much immediately I purchased ALL expansions for the game (everything except Woodlands, Nether Realm and Deep Realms) and have played 4th ever since. My group love it and the homebrew for it looks amazing! (Timescape etc) We love the Nether Deck and Fate and other features uniqie to 4th edition.

That being said I have recently had a thurst to play 2nd edition ( I have a huge adventure deck with loads of homebrew) and had a thought. What about Nether Deck for 2nd edition??? Has anyone else had this thought, or better yet came up with anything in the ways of creating it?

I'd be interested to hear from anyone who still plays 2nd edition; what homebrew if any they use and if they are back enginered anything from 4th to be used with 2nd edition.

I still play the 2nd Ed. and from time to time I'm even organizing its tournaments. While the 4th RE is a solid and good game, the 2nd Ed. still has its own magic that lures players to it.

I play 2nd and 3rd because I can't fit 4th onto my game table any more. Expansion hell ...

I have the City Sewers for 2nd edition, The Village, & the Tavern, as well of coarse my Dragon expansion.

I have only played 1 game of 2nd edition since owning everything, and there is a desire to play more. Just hasn't happened.

I still play 2nd edition which I have had since its release and have the adventure and the dungeon expansions (as well as the white dwarf cards) I have started playing again with my son and some of his friends and we have printed some of the unofficial expansions as well as creating our own. I have bought Relic which I think is awesome but I dont intend to buy the new talisman and just to keep expanding what I have. I am planing on making a solo version as I have done for relic.

Hi everyone.

I am new to this forum having played Talisman since the early 80s when my older brothers enlsited me as a 4th player with their mates.

The fact there were some powerful female characters was definitely an attraction, my brothers getting quite miffed when I beat them each time playing the prohpetess

I love Gary Chalks artwork with all the wonderful colours and was a little reluctant to look at 4th edition. However I finally succumbed and am now hooked.

The art is darker and the larger board seems to have more of a "distant land" feel to it especially with all the expansions laid out.

As a figure painter its a shame the figures got smaller as the board got larger.

Its a worthy successor to 1/st 2nd edition but in answer to the original post, you can't beat the 1st/2nd edition and I prefer the nostalgia hit I get each time I look at Chalks artwork. With painted GW figures on the board it is indeed a sight to behold.

I hope to find this forum a help with those rules questions that often crop up as well as seeing what other Talisman fans get up to.

I play 2nd and 3rd because I can't fit 4th onto my game table any more. Expansion hell ...

hahaha I feel your pain! Infact that was part of the reason I've been thinking about 2nd Edition again recently. I can easily fit all 5 region board (Dejerv's expansion and the far outer region) on my table with 4-5 players around it. BUT I can barely fit 2 expansions on my table when playing 4th edition.

To combat this I have recently just made a huge 8ft by 4ft table with green felting. It looks great and am going to give a 4 corner 4th edition game a whirl very soon! I will upload pictures of it when I do because I am rather proud of the table (and dedication to Talisman...I can't fit much else in my living room now!) :lol

@ 80svamp - I too love the old artwork. Have you seen Gary Chalks recent kickstarter? Its a lonewolf game with art from the man himself

A 2nd edition tournament. Now that sounds like a reason to get it out again if nothing else! With the amount of characters for the game however, I can imagine it taking a long time to get through them all!

Yes Jackboy I have seen the Lone Wolf game in developement. Jon put a link on the Island and I subscribed straight away.

The chance to get a piece of original artwork signed by the master himself was to good to miss.

I played the Lone Wolf solo adventure books back in the 80s and got them down out of the loft, blew off the dust and am re playing.

Cripes I must have had a lot of spare time in my teens!!! No wonder my grades were so poor.

Just when you think your doing well, wham, a boulder falls on you and your squished...dead. Back to the start.......Oh this is going well book 2 ......poison lock trap dead, knickers. Re roll character get poor stats first encounter with a lesser warped snail of Snarpa....dead!!!!

Frustrating but even more enjoyable when you do actually make it to the next book.

The cunundrum is though (and I appreciate this is a Talisman forum) but when adventuring through such books if you go back to a room your previous incarnatiion has been to, is the monster, trap, death sludger, gas cloud etc etc still there or do you merely come across a rotting corpse?

Oh the lone wolf adventure books! I was too young to play them but my older brother had loads of them. I remember the artwork was great and I was really interested in them, I think I just used to scan the pages looking at the artwork. I think I played a couple of similar type books when I was about 10-11years old on holiday; but never Lone Wolf. If I could I would buy them all now and have a little blast! I'd probably coax my son into playing them as good reading practice

One thing I would say about playing the books, and replaying them once a charaacter dies...My take on the concept of the books is that it is a 'complete it in one-hit- type of game. If you die you start the whole game a fresh, with all the hideous monsters back in their original places.

Do you have the complete set 80s vamp? Bet they must be worth something by now. Also did you ever play HeroQuest and the spin off fighting fantasy books???

Oh the lone wolf adventure books! I was too young to play them but my older brother had loads of them. I remember the artwork was great and I was really interested in them, I think I just used to scan the pages looking at the artwork. I think I played a couple of similar type books when I was about 10-11years old on holiday; but never Lone Wolf. If I could I would buy them all now and have a little blast! I'd probably coax my son into playing them as good reading practice

One thing I would say about playing the books, and replaying them once a charaacter dies...My take on the concept of the books is that it is a 'complete it in one-hit- type of game. If you die you start the whole game a fresh, with all the hideous monsters back in their original places.

Do you have the complete set 80s vamp? Bet they must be worth something by now. Also did you ever play HeroQuest and the spin off fighting fantasy books???

It's not quite the same thing as flipping through the pages of the books but you can actually download all of them for free, totally legit, html scripted and all. I can't get the linking to work properly (probably just me being a bit tired at the moment) so here goes:

http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

I suppose you could always print them at hideous expense for the full experience

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The cunundrum is though (and I appreciate this is a Talisman forum) but when adventuring through such books if you go back to a room your previous incarnatiion has been to, is the monster, trap, death sludger, gas cloud etc etc still there or do you merely come across a rotting corpse?

Ha ha! I always played without the rotting corpse, just this incredibly uneasy feeling of a really bad déjà vu. The object of my previous death would depend on what options I have to avoid it. There are a few bottle necks and boss fights in the books that you have to get across. When there's no other route, I tend to cheat by replaying only that page until I succeed and give myself a negative score for every time I die. You really need a lot of discipline for these books! Who knew?

I have the first 8 books (1st edition),Jackyboy ,which was when Mr Chalk was the artist but lost interest after that.

You can still pick them up quite cheapy on e-bay.

thanks fot the inspiration 80sVamp. I now have the first 3 books coming to me from ebay. About £7 in total which I don't think is too bad at all Can't believe I will be playing these books sooo many years after my brother had them all. Maybe my son will play them when he is old enough

Getting back to the questions, while we still own it, we don't play it. Somewhere after Blood Moon came out for the 4th, I began a hunt for it - I knew it was in some box or bin somewhere. Unlike many of the other games we played, we had stored it well. Most of the other games ended up with moldy/mildew smells because they lived in a basement for many years.

So I did find it and looked it over. We even had those 8.5 X 11 inch play-sheets that were great for organizing your objects, followers, etc.

But it has submerged again; perhaps the Deep Realms even, snicker. My wife is no help, but if I find it again, I will cannibalize those play sheets for the 4th rev. we now play. They could certainly help out.

We ended up buying 3 somewhat affordable folding tables which when arranged side by side has given us lots of room to put out the entire board system and still have room for player areas and the card decks, Dragon Lords, Reaper, Werewolf, etc to be close at hand.