Welcome to Talisman Island. A humble fan site dedicated to what I think is the best Fantasy genre game ever produced: Talisman - The Magical Quest Game. Designed by Bob Harris and originally released by Games Workshop in 1983, Talisman is now having a well-deserved revival in the capable hands of Fantasy Flight Games.
Talisman: The Sacred Pool Sneak Peek #3! 2nd September 2010
Another update for you today with an 'angelic' collection of artwork from the Sacred Pool expansion for the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman from the talented hand of Felicia Cano. One you may have seen before, but the others will be new to you.
Guardian Angel by Felicia Cano
Fallen Angel by Felicia Cano
Angel of Mercy by Felicia Cano
I'll be posting another image over the weekend too, so come and visit again soon!
Talisman: The Highland International News! 27th August 2010
It's been a while since there was any news from the international partners of FFG, but the next up for players will be the various incarnations of Talisman: The Highland expansion.
As you can see, the baton is still being carried by Galakta with Talisman: Magia i Miecz Góry, Edge Entertainment with Les Hautes Terres, Giochi Uniti with Le Lande Mountuose and Heidelberger Spieleverlag with Das Hochland.
Don't worry though as I will hopefully have some more sneak peeks of artwork featured in The Sacred Pool expansion very soon!
Talisman: The Sacred Pool Sneak Peek #2! 18th August 2010
Life is now back to normal with a week full of work and odd jobs about the house, so I thought it would be nice to keep a bit of the buzz surrounding the newest expansion for the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman going with a new piece of art for you to see.
Profane Relic by Julie Dillon
Let's hope that FFG doesn't keep us waiting too long for more news of The Sacred Pool. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us!
Gen Con Indy Update #4 & Talisman: The Sacred Pool Sneak Peek #1! 9th August 2010
It was a rather tiring day yesterday dragging my tired legs around the Exhibit Hall at Gen Con Indy for the last time. It was mostly spent catching up with people to say goodbye for another year, but I did manage to grab a quick lunch break with John Goodenough, which was rather pleasant.
As I have no photographs of any great importance to show you from the day I thought I would share a great piece of art from The Sacred Pool expansion for the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman to make your mouth water just that little bit more!
Firemane by Christopher Burdett
Funnily enough, I had been trying to find Chris during Gen Con and saw him in passing on Saturday night, but he was rather elusive the rest of the time. Then, whilst I was relaxing before leaving the hotel, who should turn up at reception but Chris! He had been staying in the same place as me all during the Con!! Typical!!
I have some more images to bring you in the run up to the release of The Sacred Pool expansion, but they will be a little spread out this time I think depending on how quickly more news surfaces from FFG!
Gen Con Indy Update #3! 6th August 2010
A quiet day for Talisman, but another Gen Con brings another starring role in a FFG video for a member of the New family! This time around it is yours truly in the Day Two video, lounging around during the FFG Flight Report!
I thought I should also show a picture of someone who has been working tirelessly all through Gen Con showing Talisman off to the masses. Mai Yang is an intern at FFG and I don't think there has been a time I have walked past the FFG booth where she hasn't been demoing the game and tempting more unsuspecting people over to the Dark Side!
Highlight of the day though was being invited out to dinner by John Goodenough where we were joined by Jakob Bonds and his brother, Gustav. In case you were unaware, Jakob Bonds is a co-designer of Drakborgen, which of course became DungeonQuest which has now been taken up by FFG, and both he and Gustav created Drakborgen Legenden!
We played a fun game of Magical Athlete in the hotel lobby afterwards, but unfortunately the day did not end too well for me as I completely failed to score any points at all in the game!
Gen Con Indy Update #2! 6th August 2010
Today was a little tricky when I got up as my legs didn't want to work! I still managed to drag myself to the FFG booth where I took this nice little picture of the back of the box for The Sacred Pool expansion for the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman.
Later this evening Katie and I played a game of vanilla Talisman in the FFG demo room and we were joined by a certain someone named John Goodenough!
The four lads that joined us were a real laugh and towards the end of the game (which lasted about three and a half hours!) our little band was getting very loud indeed! Nothing to do with me of course... Emily, the unfortunate demo team member assigned to us, was a star too but I think she may have been a tad overwhelmed to have the designer sitting in on the action!
The highlight for me was when Katie ended up getting double-Toaded by the Witch. She was naturally ridiculed (by me) and there was much rejoicing!
Gen Con Indy Update #1! 5th August 2010
Well, it's been a rather busy day today and my feet are killing me! This is of course due to traipsing the halls of the Indianapolis Convention Centre in search of people playing Talisman.
As you can see there were a few games underway, from the tables run by the Rogue Judges, FFG's main stand and demo room to a hardened group of local Talisman fans who were playing a mega-game this evening!
There was also a little something displayed on a shelf on the main FFG stand today, but we will have to see if there is more to show after the FFG Flight Report tomorrow.
Hopefully there will be more to report tomorrow (if my feet stop hurting!), but I am sure I can come up with something if it turns out to be a slow day!
Talisman: The Sacred Pool Sneak Peek #0! 4th August 2010
I am currently in the air at 30996 feet on my way to Newark to get a connecting flight to Indianapolis for Gen Con where hopefully there will be some news of The Sacred Pool expansion for the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman.
I thought it would be nice to bring you a little pre-Sneak of some of the artwork contained within the expansion, and I reckon the image below is a pretty good one to start with!!
Judgement Day by Felicia Cano
Hopefully I will have some nice pics to show from Gen Con like last year, and hopefully not too long after my return, I can start a series of previews for you all!!
Talisman Expansion News! 20th July 2010
News has finally surfaced on the FFG website about the latest in a long (and growing!) line of expansions for the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman!
Talisman: The Sacred Pool will introduce new decks featuring equestrian followers and new rewards for completing quests!
New characters will be found to play with and new alternate endings too! You will even get the Neutral Alignment card that we have been waiting for!
I'm afraid my access to the Internet has been rather sporadic of late and mostly limited to emails, but I wanted to take the opportunity to mention a few of the things that have been going on in the last few weeks!
Talisman News
Talisman: The Highland expansion is now out and getting a lot of play around the World!
Królowa Lodu, the Polish language version of Talisman: The Frostmarch expansion has been released, along with the German version (Die Frostmark) and the French version (La Marche du Froid). Frost-tastic!
The Talisman Revised 4th Edition extension for Strange Eons had an update to incorporate the assets from Talisman: The Highland, and the Polish language plugin was updated. I must apologise though, as in changing some of the files I seem to have broken the other language versions! So if you are using those then do not update your main English plugin for now!
Runebound News
The rules for the Runebound: The Mists of Zanaga expansion have been uploaded to the FFG site!
More news about the reimagining of the classic "death to all who play" dungeon crawl, Dungeonquest, has been posted by FFG. One exciting feature is that the heroes from the game can be used in all other Terrinoth games!
Sadly I was unable to attend UK Games Expo 2010 in Birmingham at the beginning of the month, but Elliott and Emma had a great time demoing Talisman and I will be posting a gallery of pictures soon!
Nemomon, friend of Talisman Island and contributor to the Polish translations of Talisman will be at the Avangarda convention in Poland in July (22nd - 25th) where he will be hosting a Talisman: Magia i Miecz tournament and hopefully making a presentation about Królowa Lodu! More on that later!
I've been working on clearing the decks of things I need to upload and articles I need to sort and I am getting there, but very slowly.
Keep on visiting and there should be some new content when you come back!
Remember, Talisman Island is what YOU make it. If you have anything that you would like to be presented in any of the sections, just fire off an email to me and we'll try to get your creations to the masses!
Have a look around the place, let me know what you like, what you don't like and what else you'd like to see!
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Please also note that it is bad form to hotlink to any images here on Talisman Island and to take images for use on other sites without at least asking permission. I do not wish to start using "watermarks" on any imagery presented here, but will consider it if this becomes a problem.
