I see that the upcoming page has a listing for the Dungeon expansion. Looks like it might arrive in the March-ish range, which I am happy about.

Do we know anything at all about this expansion yet? Particularly I am wondering if it's a big box or small box (Reaper) expansion. For that matter, has anyone confirmed if there will be big and small box expansions for the game, or are we looking at a future replete with Reaper-style releases? I personally like the alternating release style Arkham Horror has been using...

--PenAgain

Does this help?

Tric Trac

Can't wait to see it! Looks like they have gone for the 3rd edition style for board expansions

Can anyone figure out what the new characters are?

Geoff

New characters are Gladiator, Gypsy , Amazon , Philospher , Swashbuckler.

Is that box the "standard" Arkham Horror, Fury of Dracula, etc. size box? I'm guessing FFG only really do a default size, but looking at the hands holding the box, somehow looks smaller than the regular box.

Oh wow.

YAY!

I loved the 3rd ed boards, because they gave the whole game a more planned feeling than the 2nd ed expansions did. I'm glad to see that part of 3rd carry forward (much as I like seeing the return of the cones and box-standard miniatures).

Now to start whining because we don't know what comes AFTER Dungeon yet... or do we???

--PenAgain
No such thing as too much information

Can anyone read what the back of the book says?

Looks like the man with the flaming sword is an other "Reaper" style character.

Also looks like a new card type of the back of the box.

I'm really surprised by FFG rate of publishing! Still I'm not familiar with Reaper expansion and there's another exciting work coming soon...

Well done.

The_Warlock said:

On the other, I'm already starting to hit the "been there, done that" phase after 17 games with Upgrade + Reaper. And there's still 3 months to go before another expansion is available . Probably will keep plucking away at it a game here and there, but don't think I'll hit another streak of "must play a game each day to see what cool stuff I've yet to see". Similar thing happened with Arkham Horror. After adding Black Goat and King in Yellow and going through a 24 game streak, it's been over 2 months since I've played AH. Yes, I'm a sucka for new shiny stuff .

Of course no detail yet so ready to be proved wrong but I am a bit disappointed that the Philosopher is included.

Is it not the same character as the Sage from the Reaper expansion ?

The big guy with the spiky armour and the flaming sword. Looks a bit like the Chaos Warrior, maybe he has been turned into a NPC.

I never really liked the Dungoen for 2nd edition, This looks interesting though. I might just have to shell out some cash and upgrade..

Having bought 4th ed from GW when it was released I was excited to hear FFG were releasing the game and developing it as they are my fave boardgame company.

I was going to opt for the conversion expansion, but I might just go the whole hog and buy the revised 4th for continuity and because i am a hoarder. So - 4 board expansions expected, on Dungeon, probably the City remade as well. Hopefully we wont be seeing timescape back again...

What others are contenders?

I never bought 3rd ed but have everything for 2nd ed. The 3rd ed board model looked impressive but i only played it once or twice

I'm not very familiar with 3rd edition, but I am aware that expansion boards were thought out a head of time (somewhat) so that corners and sides could all be used for add on boards. So can anyone tell which corner the Dungeons is going to attach to?

JCHendee said:

I hope it will be smaller...not enough place to play...:<

I love the look of this... just hope it adds some good NEW details to the game rather than just more of the same. So excited!

Bludgeon said:

In 2nd edition you had to find a special place adventure card to access the Dungeon called Doorway. I see that the expansion will add some new Adventure Cards. Since the deck has become really big after Reaper, I don't think they're going to add new Adventure Cards for base play, but they're going to bring back the Doorway cards in an adequate number.

There are two new card types depicted on the box. One is made of Dungeon adventure cards, but the other?

I'm not sure about this specific expansion, but I feel there will be many new Adventure cards in the future of Talisman. Considering the number of expansions in 2nd edition, how big were the Adventure decks? Personally, I hope they keep on addding to the adventure deck. Im sure Ill manage shuffling it somehow. ;-)

It seems the Products page on the Talisman website has been updated to include the contents of the Dungeon Expansion.

Game Contains:

* 1 Rulebook
* 1 Dungeon Board
* 128 Dungeon Cards
* 20 Spell Cards
* 10 Adventure Cards
* 10 Treasure Cards
* 5 Character Cards
* 5 Plastic Figures

Looks like the reduced adventure card speculation is correct. And we also know what that second card type isTreasure!

Just noticed that the main talisman board game box shows only five characters in the rear and all eleven in the front.The reaper shows all characters in the rear and minus the sage in the front.So maybe not all characters are shown in the dungeon box front or rear,there might be a surprise....Wishfull thinking. ....................The chaos warrior looking character does seem like an npc as somone allready quoted.

thanks for posting the official contents Atheral.

Atheral said:

It also said "Coming May 2009"

Looks like we'll have a long time to talk about it before it comes out.

I'm glad they keep the chance of being teleported to the Crown of Comand (Stated on the products page). Hopefully the dungeon is still accessed through dungeon door adventure cards rather then a fixed point on the board. I'm not thrilled that they went with the L shaped boards since it give you less options for set up (I don't have a table big enough to hold the talisman board plus the expantion boards around the edges), but oh well. I can't wait, Dungeon was my favorite expantion!!

P.S.

Does anyone have better pictures of the back of the box? I would love to get a good look at the board.

Bludgeon said:

Ah, so then it would probably wrap around the Tavern.

I don't know - I never really liked the expansiosn that added boards (although I did prefer the 3rd edition corner boards to the entirely seperate boards).

I just never liked the fact that you got distracted from your main quest there.

Now - a revised main board might be interesting...

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