Played a great game of Talisman last night. I’d finally finished converting all the 2nd and 3rd editon expansions for 4th Revised and it was time for a game at last! So we were playing with the Expansion Set, The Adventure, The Dungeon, Timescape, Master Level Characters, City, Dragons, Cave, Forest, Mountains and the Dragon’s Tower! I’m still yet to convert the Characters though.

As I was playing the Dwarf, I thought I was in for an easy win when I saw my Craft starting to pile up especially when I became the High Mage as well. I got slowed down a bit and by the time I was in the Inner Region the Sheriff Prophetess was on her way in as well. We were playing with the Tower after the Valley of Fire. I raced up the Tower without too much problems but by this time was down to 2 Lives. I got to the Crown of Command, turned my alternative end card over, bugger, it was the Demon Lord! I had Craft 10 compared to its 12 and it had 4 Lives. It batted me once leaving me down to my last Life before I made my escape down to the Plain of Peril.

Well, I thought, I’ve probably blown my chance, the Prophetess had 13 Craft and all her Lives and was now at the Valley of Fire. At least I had plenty of Gold to heal. I drew my next card, Fools Gold! Now I was in trouble, but surely I had enough Strength and Craft to beat anything. Next card, Ghostly Vengeance! (all players who have defeated a Spirit must lose a Life). “***** ***** ***** *****” I cried as I crumpled down to the ground. The Prophetess looked confident despite struggling for 5 turns to lift a Portcullis. The Prophetess now had 14 Craft and was beating the hell out of the Demon Lord. My new Character was the Monk and together with the Wizard we hatched a plan to bring about the downfall of the soon to be victorious Prophetess. So there we were, the Demon Lord down to 1 Life, the Prophetess at 4, it was time to put the plan into action. The Wizard raced into the City, paid his 4 Gold to retrieve Random from the discard pile. This was never going to work was it? There was no way the Prophetess would be that unlucky to roll a 3 was there. Having no Fate left, it was a tense moment as the dice was thrown….. A 3!!!! All her lovely Craft vanished and a cheer went up! But the Prophetess had one more trick up her sleeve. Brainwave (doubled her Craft Value). This gave her one last shot at Craft 10 against the Demon. Luck not on her side the Prophetess made a hasty retreat.

Now it looked like the Wizard had the best hope with a Craft of 10 compared to the ruined Prophetess and a starting Monk. But it was not be! A while later and after several lucky cards, the Monk was now the Templar and could use his Strength instead of his Craft in Psychic Combat (we had removed the Life loss rule). After a quick journey into the Cave to boost his Strength even more (14) it was time to kick some Demon Lord butt! By this time, the Wizard had got himself up to Craft 13 but the Monk was now at the Valley of Fire and the Wizard was just picking the lock on the Portal of Power. “Not so fast” said the Wizard, casting his favourite spell as my girlfriend (how could she do this to me!) watched the smile fade from my face. Debauchery!! (the player must spend each turn moving towards the Tavern and upon arrival miss 3 turns and loose 3 objects, gold ,lives or followers. My chance at victory was gone.

The Wizard battled his way to the top of the Tower where the Demon Lord was waiting. Surely there was no way the Wizard could lose with 14 Craft and 6 Lives. But once again, the gods of Talisman decided it was not to be so. With both the Demon and the Wizard down to their last Life, the Wizard decided that surely she must be victorious. But surprise surprise, the Wizard fell dead to the cobbles.
Recovering from his massive binge, the Monk recovered his wits, marched up the Tower, slew the vile Demon and 6 hours after we started, victory was mine!!

What a game!!!

Geoff

Cool write up!

It must have taken you ages to convert all that stuff! And no doubt Velhart will be contacting you soon

Yo Cider,

Please contact me on yahoo or live messenger.

Ell.

It certainly did take me way too long what with all the scanning and typing and rewording!

Sorry, don't use messenger or anything like that but you can email me at

[email protected]

Cheers

Geoff

Very cool game Cider. I am not sure of 3rd edition rules. You said your dwarf was in the CoC when he died to demon lord. But once someone enters the CoC and they die, isn't that person out of the game? Or are you playing it your own way and still drawing another character.

very nice. sounds like a fun game.

Nice

I want at least take a look at the cards when can you download them on talisman island?

Very nice story. Hey you mentioned that you use some 3rd edd rules. Do you use Experience? Purple Cones.....?

Hi,

Essentially, I scanned all of the 2nd edition expansions and all the bits from 3rd edition that weren’t in the 2nd edition. I typed up all the text and then went through the cards and tweaked the text to make sure the cards used the same terminology as the revised 4th edition. I also took the opportunity to clear up the wording of the cards and incorporate the faq’s.

In terms of rules, I made a few changes here and there for the expansions but the only bits I used from the 3rd edition was the Realms rules and the die roll needed to become the High Mage which I added to the requirement to pay a magic object.

It was a massive project and I wouldn’t like to guess how long it took me. Playing with the Tower after the Valley of Fire works quite well. Normally you can see how many turns another player is ahead of you in a race to the Crown of Command and adds an extra bit of excitement at the end game. I’ve played before when three of us were in the Tower at the same time.

I’ve made a few tweaks to the City and Mountain board and a few big changes to the alternative endings as there were some pretty major flaws with some of them. There were lots of other smaller changes too numerous to mention. Yes, we do play that if The Demon Lord is in play you have to kill him to win and can get new characters if you are killed.

In terms of sharing this project I would like to but there are copyright concerns such as the art and FFG probably releasing a fair few of these expansions themselves down the line. Just have to get round to converting all the characters now!

Cheers

Geoff