As the sorceress, if i land on a space with another character, i may attempt to beguile. After that, do I also choose whether to encounter the space or attack a character on the space? If I land on a space with two characters, may I attempt to beguile both?

Dagnabbit. I wanted to delete this post, but you don't have the option! Sorry, I misread your question!

If you check out the Turn Encounter Sequence it is quite clear in this regard.

Encounter space or character. If you encounter character, then it's either battle/psychic combat OR special ability. Then turn ends.

Wait, I must have missed something in the rules. I thought one have to encounter the space first (if required) and only then if possibly could one encounter another character. What have I overlooked?

I was completely befuddled when I asked my question. Comes from being absent minded. :-)

You have a choice of encountering the space, or a character on the space, and they're mutually exclusive. (Take a peek at the flow chart on the back page of the new rules. Useful!)

Question: If I am evil and land on a character in the chapel, and I choose to encounter them (fight or special ability) , do I lose a life because of my alignment? (assuming I don't have the Cross or Druid Wand, nor playing the Druid of course)

As it stands, if you land on the Chapel and decide to encounter a Character there, you do not lose a life if you are Evil. It's the same with the Desert.

This is one of the areas that I'm really not happy with about spaces such as the Chapel/Desert in that they do not follow "real" logic, merely "game" logic.

I've been considering resurrecting the Talisman X feature on my site to detail suggested House Rules and other Experimental Rules for the game. Global Space Effects would be one of those suggested rules...

slabgar said:

But the rules imply that landing on happens before encountering - you land on a square, then you choose to either encounter the character ot the square. It's easy to assume that the Sorceress powers happen in the "land on" phase rather than the "encounter" phase. I think the powers should read "instead of encountering" or "before encountering".

talismanisland said:

My group has already house ruled the "Global Space Effects" into action. It makes more sense to have it that way, and sometimes a life is sacrificed in order to attack a weaker character that holds a desirable object.

A question that's been raised by some other topics here in the forum and I report it in this topic.

The Hag, the Poltergeist and the Jester are now "Followers". Can they now be Beguiled by the Sorceress or Mesmerized with a Spell?

This is really important because the Poltergeist can very be useful, even if it has been thought as a penalty. It can generate stalemates (Good Character-Chapel, or Character-Healer), allow Pool draining in few Turns, ecc....

I need an official (or semi-official) clarification before I start playing with Revised 4th edition. Thanks very much