I wonder, if it will contain some cards which will start to affect starting values. Monk would be really hapy, if each time he could be able to add +5 to his S in battle..

Nemomon said:

haha

well, if you are wondering about that monk, then i wonder if there are some weapons for craft, so that the priest can still get a boost..

Or maybe some pray boosters...

Velhart said:

Eventually some Armours, which will be increasing Priest's S in battle

Eventually, maybe they finally will Fix the Elf (and in case they forget, Knight need to be made from the begining..).

Nemomon said:

Haha, that;s a good one

Magic armour for holy characters ( priest monk etc ( gain a + 1 strength and + 1 craft in battle and psychic combat

A elven robe that increase the elf's special ability that allows him to warp to the middle region

Having nothing better to do I tried to decipher some of the text from the picture of Ice Queen and Warlock Quests alternative endings on talisman island. With a bit of guessing I could make some parts.

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Ice Queen
(...?) If he is defeated, in addition to loosing 1 life, (...?) roll 1 die:
1-2) (...?)
3-4) (...?)
5-6) (...?) and immediately moves to the Plain of Peril
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If a character removes the Ice Queen's last life, he wins the game. If another character has already removed some of the Ice Queen's lives then a character only needs to remove the Ice Queen's remaining lives to win the game.
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If there are no characters on the Crown of Command, the Ice Queen heals all her lives.

Strength: 12 Craft: 12 Life: 4
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Warlock Quests

* Each character begins the game with four randomly drawn Warlock Quest.
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* Whenever a character completes a Warlock Quest, (...something about teleporting to Warlock's cave and gaining a Talisman...?)
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* If a character is killed, he must (keep?) all of his Warlock Quests both completed and uncompleted.
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* The first character to reach the Crown of Command with four or more completed Warlock Quests wins the game!
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I love speculating so here is my theory:

Notice the different design in the top left corners of the alternative endings. "Warlock Quests" have a star but the other two do not. Maybe so that you can easily separate the endings that can be used to be drawn randomly when the first character enters the Crown of Command (Ice Queen, Crown and Sceptre) and the ones that must be determined at the beginning of a game session (Warlock Quests). Of cause, nothing is going to stop you from drawing a random (or choosing) ending from all cards at the beginning of a game session.

I'm suprised that the fine people here at FFG haven't released any info about Frostmarch on this website. I can't wait to hear more about the theme and to get a proper look at the new characters abilities! ... Anyway, thanks to Jon New and you guys for the info so far

Jon has already said to me, that there is something with that sun icon on the upper left of the warlock card.

I thought it has something to do with the summer, because winter is coming now...but that's not case

If you know the ending from the beginning of the game, then you make a strategic to reach your destination, but if that is not the case, then you have bad luck if you reach the crown if you have not complete the warlock quests.

It seems you must go all the way back then..

but that;s just my idea for now.

And if the warlock card must be drawn at the crown if you land there, how will that rule activate on that card so that each character begins the game with four warlock cards. ( that makes no sense to me) It look like if they are already be drawn at the beginning of the game..

It seems more likely that Talisman alternative endings will match those done for other games. An endgame should affect the whole game, perhaps changing the way players go at it, if not the game as a whole. Likely, players can choose which endgame they will play for the night, or draw one randomly and reveal it before play begins. This also makes for a real quest of sorts, instead of going for a big slot machine waiting on the CoC. It's a good change in mechanics and will bring some simplified freshness to the game. Adventurers will have to alter (in small ways) some tactics for how they will prepare for which endgame is being played. As said, a good change, and hopefully the endgame deck will continue to grow.

Well.... if the endgame is been drawn and reveal to the other players at the beginning of the game, then i think that the Horrible black void will not been included for this edition...

But in return, we get something new that effect the whole game..

But they can always make the old cards again with the old rule of second edition..

Anyway, we get 3 new ending cards that are not from second edition..

And i like them. The Warlock ending card has some good art on it. The ice queen is awesome( no words for it) !

And i am also looking forward to the Crown and Sceptre ending. What should it do??

Off course, this is just based on the art. We have not seen the full text of all the 3 ending cards...( only a little..from far away..

I wonder when we hear something about the release date and some news on the FFG site.

I hope also that we get a sneek peek again on talisman island

Small news. John uploaded arts of front and backs of Frostmarch in High Quality:

Front: images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic544607.jpg

Back: images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic544611.jpg

As a news, one of the new Spells will have "Brain" word in the beginning of the name, and also After we will finish warlock quest from that Alternative Ending, we are not getting any reward nor we aren't teleported to Warlock Cave, but we are keeping it and putting it face down in our Players area.

Nemomon said:

The spell with the word brain, is probably the Brainwave card

From the looks of the last sentence of the warlock card, you only gain a talisman if you complete 3 warlock cards??

Nemomon said:

Actually, this is fantastic, because, if you get a talisman after completing each warlock quest card, then the talisman adventure cards have no meaning anymore to be added to the deck..

But now you get nothing when you complete a quest ( until you have complete 3 quests...??

Anyway, if it is possible to trade 3 warlock cards for a talisman, then you get it difficult if you have the warlock ending card at the crown.

It's still speculating and it's difficult to see the meaning of the last sentence of the text, but one thing is for sure.... ( you don't get a talisman card for each warlock card, so luckily that will slow it down...

If you draw some bad warlock cards like discarding 2 magic objects etc then you have bad luck if you have them and you must complete the quest.

You cannot evade the warlock cards now !

I can't wait anymore

Can you overcome the bone-chilling storms and strange creatures or will your blood freeze when you behold the Ice Queen's cold, cruel gaze?

Brace yourself against the onslaught of the Frostmarch!

-including a final climactic battle with the Ice Queen !

I just want to join in an say something...

... I also look forward for frostmarch

Cheer

I really hope that it will come soon..

I don't want to think about that it will come in oktober/november... or later...

September will be a good month for that

Velhart said:

Agree 100% with you Velhart

I wonder if all the snow enemies are new, or if they are some enemies from the mountain expansion..

Maybe it's better if they are all new

Anyway, when the Frostmarch adventure cards will be added to the deck, then we 290 adventure cards !

i am also wondering, when FFG put some news on their site about the frostmarch expansion

Can't be too early for me because as soon as Frostmarch is in store then we get closer to the next big expansion

Cheers

Old Master said:

Maybe that will become the Mountain expansion??

Now that we get the Frostmarch, it would be nice if the next is the mountains.

Marching from a land that do not exist yet on the table.. is weird lol

Saw this set at Gencon it it nice. Got to check out the 4 new figures and they look great. Was not able to check out the new adventure cards due to the fact they where still wrap in the plastic.

Militarywizard said:

Lucky you !

Even if you can't look at all the adventure cards, it's worth to check out the box and the figures..

Something we can't, because it's too far away...

There is so many news on the site lately, and still no news about the frostmarch expansion.

We don't even have a date for it's release...

I am afraid that we don't get it in september...

As long as we get a big expansion for december that's ok but if they plan to delay the release of Frostmarch for the holidays then

Cheers