Jon on his Twitter revealed few details regarding new expansion for Talisman - Frostmarch. It will be small expansion just like Reaper, containing:

- 4 new characters
- 84 Adventure cards
- 20 Spells
- 24 Warlock Quests
- 3 Alternative Endings

It will be released in autumn this year. As a reminder, image featured Freeze spell, which we weren't able to see in Dungeon:

Source: twitter.com/talismanisland

cool…!!

as ever though, need more info!!

Alternative endings, please let there be Horrible Black Void!

Please, please, please, please, please...

(Horrible Black Void as it was, not some sissified version of it, though if the Raiders are anything to go by )

Dam said:

Then possibility to move to Timescape

Nemomon said:

Ugh, I hope not. Timescape is one expansion I'll never miss.

Nah, I'm City not big fan, but I won't be fretfully on this matter.

In my humble opinion Horrible Black Void is really stupid and unfair alternative ending

Rimmer said:

And for me, along with Toad, it personifies all that Talisman is and should be about !

Beside that I have "Talisman: The Adventure" from second hand and Horrible Black Void card had a footprint from a maddened player on its back side

We suffer a lack of players. There are usually only two of us playing and we play "Talisman Bloodbath" mode. Horrible Black Void would mean end of game then. Game in which worse player would win.

Fortunately I don't really expect Horrible Black Void as one of the alternative endings in Frostmarch. 33% chance to lose by reaching Crown od Command is too much.

You mean 16.7% chance, since Black Void was one of six endings (?). We kept the others and trashed the Black Void after one game. It is not what Talisman is about.

But so far, Frostmarch as a "supplement" expansion could add some freshness to the game.

Horrible Black Void was just proof that Talisman is crazy, wacky fun without regard for human (or dwarf or elf...) life and anything can happen .

I've just posted some pictures of the Frostmarch display from the FFG booth today on Talisman Island. I will be posting the full sized pictures later on in a gallery, but I think you will be able to make out enough detail to be going on with!

talismanisland said:

What are the characters? My eyes are killing me trying to peer at the names.

Check again! (F5)

This is fantastic !!

The Ice queen returns and she is on the cover of the box ! The box is awesome !

When i saw the box, i was thinking that it was the mountain board but i realised that it is a small expansion. Not bad.

I wonder what the Ice queen will do. (Maybe a lot of cards that turn you into a toad? haha

Do we get finally some very dangerous cards?

And we get 3 ending cards too !

+84 adventure cards for the main board?

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Thank you FFG for making a awesome box of the Ice Queen

Now i look forward to it's contents.

Okay, so Necromancer, Warlock and Ogre Chieftain are pictured in the cards shown. Looking the mini, the fourth looks like Gnome/Halfling/Leprechaun.

Hmm... some things I was able to read:

Warlock begin the game with 2 spells, at the beginning of his turn, he can get that many spells as his Craft allows him, and after finishing Warlock quest, instead of Talisman he can take other cards (probably Objects from discard pile).

Ogre can evade Enemy - Monsters, unless he really want to attack them.

Necromancer begin the game with 2 spells, and can choose battle or psychic combat.

New Alternative cards are:

Crown and Sceptre
Warlock Quests
*something blue*

Alternative Endings are visible at the begining of the match. Example is Warlock Quests, due to it evcery Character begins the game with 4 random Warlock Quests. Used Warlcok cards can back to the game (Reaper says that they never won't back).

One of new Warlock is "Deliver 2 Objects.

I'm betting Leprechaun on that fourth character. Would love to see a bit more of those alternative endings, as they are obviously not played the way the old ones were.

Oh, and if anyone finds out the price on Frostmarch, let us know.

Excellent! They have finally added the Necromancer! I love the ghoul and his undeniably necromantic flair, but its good to have an old favourite back!

Any info on when it will all be released?

Awesome, Talisman is my favorite game. I love what FFG has done with it. I can't wait.

JCHendee said:

The brochure at GenCon states $24.95

I wonder if it is not too easy to begin with 4 warlock quest cards.

Then you have never go to the warlock cave again..

But the postive point is, that the warlock cards are more active..

And what to do, if you find a talisman in the adventure deck... ( If you have a warlock quest card, ( the reaper expansion says that you can not enter the inner region then..

That would mean that the talisman adventure cards are useless...( delete them from the deck?)

Velhart said:

Well, we still don't know purpose of that 4-cards-from-Alternative-Ending, maybe they're for something else apart of getting Talisman. Also, maybe that new 24 cards are harder (for example that "discard two Objects", considering the fact that You must complete Warlock quest when ever You are possible to complete it, You might lost 2 strategy Magic Objects).

Nemomon said:

Then you are very unlucky if you lost those 2 magic objects because you must finish the quest as soon as you can complete it.

This also means that you can go quicker to the middle region, because you land on the warlock cave again after you complete a quest.

Another point is what i am wondering about is: If you complete one of the 4 quests that you get at the beginning of the game, can you discard the other quests too?

If you can't, how can you enter the portal of power then?

But because you get 4 quests at the beginning of the game, maybe that you have a task that is easy to complete..

This way, you can get faster a talisman in the game

So i am still wondering if the talisman cards are useless now or not, because you can not enter the portal of power, because you have a quest..

And even if you can complete a quest and discard the other ones, and you find also a talisman on the adventure deck, then it's still wortless because you have 2 talismans then