Creating the Toad King!

By Mr. Brogger, in Talisman

inkblob said:

Oh, I hear you on that one, 3 ( going on 4 ) kids here... they are old enough to play these types of board games now, but still get a bit teary if things don't go their way ( unlike me of course )

Besides lamenting about our children mopping up our time, I actually have a relevant TK question for you.

We had a situation in the last game where the Wizard encountered another player in the Hidden Valley with TK in the Hills beside. Wizard cast a spell on the player and took a Magic Object, so you bet the TK hopped on over. My question is whether or not TK would have *2* encounters with the Wizard? We played it as one, and poor TK got squished *sob* so it was a moot point anyways. Also what about player 2, who isn't casting any magic, they don't encounter TK right?

What was funny was for the rest of the game when someone went to cast a spell, we automatically went to move him and then all nodded our heads in solemn respect for the squished King.

Wow inkblob, you must also have enough to do with three kids and soon four sorpresa.gif - But good thing that some time still goes to Talisman.

It is first time I hear that the Toad King has been squised gran_risa.gif

About your TK quistion. There is some clarification that maybe should have been on the rule card.

  • When Toad King lands in a space with two or more characters, he encouters the one that trickered him.
  • When there is an equal number of spaces either way to the player who trickered him, that player choses what way he goes.
  • When roling a #4 on the Toad King card the player choses the direction.

Hope that helped.

cheers

Mr. Brogger said:

inkblob said:

Oh, I hear you on that one, 3 ( going on 4 ) kids here... they are old enough to play these types of board games now, but still get a bit teary if things don't go their way ( unlike me of course )

Besides lamenting about our children mopping up our time, I actually have a relevant TK question for you.

We had a situation in the last game where the Wizard encountered another player in the Hidden Valley with TK in the Hills beside. Wizard cast a spell on the player and took a Magic Object, so you bet the TK hopped on over. My question is whether or not TK would have *2* encounters with the Wizard? We played it as one, and poor TK got squished *sob* so it was a moot point anyways. Also what about player 2, who isn't casting any magic, they don't encounter TK right?

What was funny was for the rest of the game when someone went to cast a spell, we automatically went to move him and then all nodded our heads in solemn respect for the squished King.

Wow inkblob, you must also have enough to do with three kids and soon four sorpresa.gif - But good thing that some time still goes to Talisman.

It is first time I hear that the Toad King has been squised gran_risa.gif

About your TK quistion. There is some clarification that maybe should have been on the rule card.

  • When Toad King lands in a space with two or more characters, he encouters the one that trickered him.
  • When there is an equal number of spaces either way to the player who trickered him, that player choses what way he goes.
  • When roling a #4 on the Toad King card the player choses the direction.

Hope that helped.

cheers

I think I forgot to answar your main TK quistion of encountering the same player more than once in the same turn. Actually that would be the case. Toad King can encounter a player more than once - you can keep feeting him with magic babeo.gif

cheers

Mr. Brogger said:

  • When roling a #4 on the Toad King card the player choses the direction.

I ment #5

cheers

The Toad King is definitely going to be in our next game. I am not sure if I like him being squished. If we don't like it we will resurrect him in the Cursed Glade.

Feldrik said:

The Toad King is definitely going to be in our next game. I am not sure if I like him being squished. If we don't like it we will resurrect him in the Cursed Glade.

I like that a lot, we really missed him heheh. Maybe roll a d6 and that could be how many turns it takes to resurrect him, or when the next person gets turned into a Toad that ~summons~ the Toad King back into existence :)

We don't use the Toad King regularly, but we have done the "back home" option to keep him around. He's less intrusive than the Reaper, and the younger players like him a lot more for his fairtale-esque nature. Even when they get into trouble with him, some can get actually sad when he disappears.

By the by, a great link of the crown for a miniature! Helps out those of use who are miniature-making challenged!

If you really get into the Toad King, and wish to spend a fistful of pretty pennies... well, take a peek for the fun of it just the same...

http://giftprose.com/Categories/Gifts-By-Type/Mens-Gifts-and-Baskets/My-Prince/

http://www.frogstore.com/catalog/Porcelain-Miniature-Frog-Prince-p-1210.html

hah, I might go for the $8 one, but will pass up on the silver one.

That's great to hear about the multiple encounters, I was rallying for that but got voted out, so hopefully he can cause some good mayhem.

That crown is availiable on many shops on bricklink, but you will probably have to do a minimum order. You can also see the sets it's available in, the rest of the bricks could make a good present =)

The sculpting of the Toad King is in progress, but I still need to find out how to replicate him the best way when he is finished.

His trone ( the mousroom ) is about finished. I will maybe soon upload some pictures of the process in this topic.

Cheer

Here is the first pictures of the Toad King being sculpted. I am sorry that some of the images is not very sharp.

The base is maybe temporary. I might size it down to the same size of the character bases in Talisman.

The reason for two colors on the mousroom is that I have used two different moulding materials. The grey was for eksperiment.

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And here is an image to size compare the mousroom with the Talisman toad.

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Hope to provide you with more images soon.

Cheer

Looking good Lasse! gran_risa.gif

Really excellent work.

Thank you guys,

I hope to get startet on the Toad King today after my kids are in bed. I ad more pictures in this topic as soon I have something to show.

Another thing, you can now download the Polish version of Toad King here:

geniesworkshop.com/index.php

cheer

Toad King is slowly taking his form.

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You know, your minis look really good. There has to be a market for custom miniatures out there.

Thank you Feldrik happy.gif

I can see that many people would like Toad King to get back in game after being squised. So maybe you will like this change on the 6 result ?

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You are an amazing artist! Very inspiring to see all the in production shots! I won't be printing off a new TK card but will put this in our house rules print outs that I seem to update fairly regularly. I like this better than when someone gets turned into a Toad next, as that can be quite awhile, if ever.

Thank you MrBrogger! The perfect solution!

inkblob said:

You are an amazing artist! Very inspiring to see all the in production shots! I won't be printing off a new TK card but will put this in our house rules print outs that I seem to update fairly regularly. I like this better than when someone gets turned into a Toad next, as that can be quite awhile, if ever.

Thank you alot sonrojado.gif

It seems that you have an early unfinished version of the Toad King inkblob. You can download a good quality with crop marks and right size of both the rule card and TK card in one PDF file from these places:

www.talismanisland.com/expansions.htm

geniesworkshop.com/index.php

cheers

Here is a bit more Toad King.

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And some more Toad King.

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That's really coming along nicely.

Mr. Brogger said:

inkblob said:

You are an amazing artist! Very inspiring to see all the in production shots! I won't be printing off a new TK card but will put this in our house rules print outs that I seem to update fairly regularly. I like this better than when someone gets turned into a Toad next, as that can be quite awhile, if ever.

Thank you alot sonrojado.gif

It seems that you have an early unfinished version of the Toad King inkblob. You can download a good quality with crop marks and right size of both the rule card and TK card in one PDF file from these places:

www.talismanisland.com/expansions.htm

geniesworkshop.com/index.php

cheers

I got mine from talismanisland =) It's the version just before the one you posted? I have both the TK and rule cards printed out. Your Toad is looking wonderful!

Hee hee, toad king! I just need a big cool toad miniature to represent a toad king. This sounds fun!

More Toad King.

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Ooooo... now that LOOKS like it's ready to paint!