I and a large number of my friends ground our teeth on Talisman 2nd Edition, yet when the 3rd Edition was released, we LOVED it. The art style, the expansions, the mechanics.
We seem to think that FFG's 4th Edition was more designed around the 2nd Edition when we tried it...and none of us play today.
Don't suppose something along the lines of 3rd Edition's mechanics might be designed in the near future...?
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