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I'm not sure if this has been posted but here it goes anyways.

Talisman’s back!
Lots of good news for fans of the Talisman board game today.

We are delighted to announce that this classic and much loved game will be getting a new edition, with an expected release later this year. At the moment, we don’t have much info on what that release will look like or an exact date for you, but we’re sure it will be a great new edition of an already excellent game.

We’ll have more news for you as we get it.

Source:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/02/19/talisman-update/

I hope they give this a full update, like silver tower. Them putting a lot of work into this, would explain the rush job on shadows over Hammerhal.

I have Talisman 3rd edition complete, and FFG's version complete as well, including the two special edition expansions. And...I'd jump on this! Love Talisman!!

Damn! Can't they bring back a good game instead?

Fans of the original Talisman rose together to cheer the announcement.

Then sat back down, wheezing and reaching for their oxygen masks.


There's something to be said for revitalising old, loved concepts to recapture some kind of spark; but at some point it begins to look an inability to come up with new concepts.

No need to reinvent the wheel, one could argue?

Me, I've never actually played Talisman - just one of those things.

So for the ignorant like myself, how does it actually play?

Me neither, and it certainly catched my interest.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
No need to reinvent the wheel, one could argue?

Me, I've never actually played Talisman - just one of those things.

So for the ignorant like myself, how does it actually play?

You choose left or right, roll a D6 to move. It takes forever and requires very little player input.

Is it a dungeoneering affair, or a sort of RPG? What's the aim? Why is considered such a classic?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
No need to reinvent the wheel, one could argue?

Me, I've never actually played Talisman - just one of those things.

So for the ignorant like myself, how does it actually play?

Imagine a boot stamping on a human testicle, forever.

Seriously though it's a pretty torturous experience.

If you want to know what's it's like, go watch the episode of Co-Optional Lounge where TB & Co play the Tabletop Simulator version, only seeing others suffer through the experience can adequately convey the reality of it.

It's like fantasy based monopoly combined with a dungeon crawler that is a fairly easy to figure out, and takes about 1hr per player. Ish. Maybe more with expansions added in. FFG made it much more involved, I expect GW will simplify it again.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
No need to reinvent the wheel, one could argue?

Me, I've never actually played Talisman - just one of those things.

So for the ignorant like myself, how does it actually play?

Imagine a boot stamping on a human testicle, forever.

Seriously though it's a pretty torturous experience.

If you want to know what's it's like, go watch the episode of Co-Optional Lounge where TB & Co play the Tabletop Simulator version, only seeing others suffer through the experience can adequately convey the reality of it.

Still better then playing monopoly.

I've only played the Horus Heresy version. It's the worst thing I've ever played that has GW stamped on it.

It play enough like Monopoly (for my money the WORST widely known board-game ever made), that GW would have to pay me to play this. The couple times I got a group together to play Talisman quickly devolved into MST3K-esque sessions where the only fun had was all of us making fun of the game.

If someone does want to put themselves through this special hell, there is a dirt-cheap PC version which includes all ten-billion expansions FFG made for it.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Is it a dungeoneering affair, or a sort of RPG? What's the aim? Why is considered such a classic?

The goal is to reach the inner map of the board and get to a certain location. You roll a d6 to see how many spaces you move on the board and you must move that exact number. To get into the inner map, you need to be in a certain location and pass a test. That or somehow get a magic item to transport you over. It's VERY RNG based so you mostly just roll d6s until you hit the exact spot you need to and then make a stat test and hope you don't die.

F%*K yeah!!!!!

I was hoping/guessing they'd do this.

FFG did a good job, but I HATED the character artwork from that edition.

Hopefully we'll see miniatures back!

I liked it as a 12 year old, not sure I would like it so much now.

As long as it is similar to the original and nothing like the Horus Heresy version or the FFG version, it could fit a niche, i am guessing there are plenty of people that would play a game like this. ( simple and quick )

So, GW has finally figured out that their whole back catalog of games that they own, can actually be reprinted and sold and make money solely for GW instead of just being licensed to FFG?
What a novel idea.

Not sure I would want to see any genuinely new games coming from GW's current design team, though. And I don't see GW willing to contract any big name game designers for a single product, either.

Sining wrote:

The goal is to reach the inner map of the board and get to a certain location. You roll a d6 to see how many spaces you move on the board and you must move that exact number. To get into the inner map, you need to be in a certain location and pass a test. That or somehow get a magic item to transport you over. It's VERY RNG based so you mostly just roll d6s until you hit the exact spot you need to and then make a stat test and hope you don't die.

Pass go, collect £200, don't land on a snake kind of thing? I get it.

Sounds like a wheel that could use some tinkering. But then if you pick your character beforehand and just hope to get the right dice rolls I can see how it'd fit in with GW's existing games.

Love talisman, the 2nd edition was the first game (along with dungeon quest) I got given back in the 80s, got me into the whole board and miniature game hobby. With the right mind set and players (and enough time) you could get really deep and involved in an epic quest and once the game is under way there is plenty of choices, strategy and player interaction - alliances and betrayal, with most games coming down to the last dice roll as all players are often scrambling through the inner region (or cunningly avoiding it with an alternative plan) to win the game. It is old fashioned, the mechanics are dice and move but wehave so much fun with the game if you treat it as a (boozy) party story telling game

I have all the expansions (and there was loads of them) for the FFG '5th' edition, apart from a few of the more later character designs and balance (which ive house ruled anyway) I don't know how they could improve on it, a reprint would serve them just as well (and my wallet).

I have FFG's Talisman on my tablet. It makes my frequent flights go faster when I don't feel like reading. If I was with friends and have an afternoon to kill, I would rather see play Arkham Horror. However, it's a fun "let's drink till we're fethed up while we play" type of game.

Monopoly sucks donkey dong.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Is it a dungeoneering affair, or a sort of RPG? What's the aim? Why is considered such a classic?

Each player chooses a Fantasy archetype for their character with a special power. Roll a d6, choose left of right, draw a random encounter, roll a few more d6 to see if you win or lose. Continue for another 2 hours per player. It's based around a loose Lord of the Rings style fantasy theme.

It was OK when it was new, but there are so many games that do the same thing better. Prophecy is basically a cleaned-up Talisman with more player decisions. Runebound has evolved into it's own beast, but is another classic take on the genre (with much greater selection of where you'll go and what sort of threats you're ready to undertake). Either makes for a far superior playing experience.

It's the type of thing that you design yourself in junior school by smooshing snakes and ladders and ludo together.

The comparisons with monopoly are unfair as monopoly does have a level of player interaction and skill involved that Talisman could only wish for.

I once saw a 5 player game in which after an 1hrs play the players had started to banter about each other being useless and who would win.
2 hrs in and it had gone quite and players were casting longing glances at a whfb game between skavan and goblins that was still in it's 1st turn despite starting the same time.
3hrs in and now every missed game ending roll resulted in nervous laughter and involuntary twitching.
4hrs in and players are actively cheating to help anyone at all win.
5hrs in someone fakes a heart attack to stop the game.(only kidding theystopped shortly after 4hrs due to suicide risk.)

Honestly I am pretty sure before FFG picked it up GW offered it to Satan who looked at and declined saying he thought it was to much of a inhumane punishment.

All joking aside it was a horrible game even in the 80's and just is not fun, but for some reason it developed a cult following that keeps it coming back for some reson.

I'm curious to see how they tackle this.

Had the 5th edition, a slew of expansions, but there got to be so much bloat that we ended up trimming it down to the base game and bits of expansions in the end.

If they can somehow streamline a little of the bloat but keep the epicness of the quest aspect, I'd be down. Every major vacation/ holiday at school I'd end up running huge games of this with my 2nd graders, and they were absolutely merciless to each other, without fail.

Another positive- new GW figures!. Maybe it'll get tied into the bubble realms of Sigmar?

New Stormcast hero coming in 5...4...3...?

I have an old Swedish version of Talisman. Along with a "learn-to-play"-book for 5:th edition fantasy I think it is the only GW-product ever translated into Swedish. I play it alot but it is really simple, like others have already pointed out.

There are a lot of people that play these types of board games with minimum input, there are a lot of people that buy GW figures but don't play any of the games because of the complexity.

I can see a definite market.

I can definitely see them shoehorning a Stormcast marine into it as well !

Ohman wrote:
I have an old Swedish version of Talisman. Along with a "learn-to-play"-book for 5:th edition fantasy I think it is the only GW-product ever translated into Swedish. I play it alot but it is really simple, like others have already pointed out.

Heroquest was also in Swedish.

 Gargantuan wrote:

Ohman wrote:
I have an old Swedish version of Talisman. Along with a "learn-to-play"-book for 5:th edition fantasy I think it is the only GW-product ever translated into Swedish. I play it alot but it is really simple, like others have already pointed out.

Heroquest was also in Swedish.

That's technically a Milton Bradley product.

I remember playing it YEARS AGO, best part was getting turned into a toad after collecting all the things .

Such negativity.

I've always liked the base Talisman game, the add-ons were hit or miss (may the Warp expansion never see the light of day again!).

The game was best when you STOPPED when someone reached the Crown of Command.

The FFG version was pretty good and had more than enough expansions, and I can't imagine GW will do anything that will add value to the gamer side of the equation - this is just all about putting all the money back in their own pocket. I've already got the FFG copy and the electronic copy - GW won't be getting any more money from me; honestly, if anything there's a couple of FFG's expansions I'd like to possibly still pick up.

Go (1E) Monk!