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.
Mythgardia News! 29th June 2009
At last Mythgardia, Bob Harris’ long awaited sequel to legendary game Talisman, is available to buy. It’s a colourful and exciting game for 2-6 players, as well as being an exclusive collector’s item.
Originally scheduled to be published by Games Workshop some years back as the official follow up to Talisman, time slipped by and the rights to the game eventually reverted to the designer.
Now Bob has taken the exciting step of launching the game himself in a lavish full colour first edition limited to only 100 copies, each numbered and signed with a certificate of authenticity. The artwork is by Debby Harris, graphic design by Kirsty Nicol, and technical support by Mark Nicol.
Mythgardia - The Game of Heroic Adventure is available exclusively from:
A few bits and pieces of news today from the site and beyond. Firstly there have been three sets of pages added to the Features section which will pass a bit of time this weekend.
Firstly, the final part of John Goodenough's 20 Questions article has been posted and even features a special bonus question!
Steve Dean managed to finish up the rest of my miniatures and I have posted a couple of gallery pages so you can see the great job he has made of them. They arrived back this morning and believe me, if you think the pictures are great, you should see the minis!
I've posted the extensions I have been working on for creating Talisman cards with Strange Eons. You can now make cards for all editions of the game with ease.
As it happens, Chris Jennings has updated Strange Eons today to 2.00.8, so you can go and grab that from his website so you are fully up to date.
In other news, eagle-eyed users of BoardGameGeek might have noticed the addition of a new game this week that should appeal to fans of Talisman. So get yourself off to BGG and find out more about Mythgardia. When I am in a position to post more, I shall...
Site News! 12th June 2009
Hopefully I will be able to update the site with a few files this weekend, but to start with I have posted the first half of the feature promised after the interview with John Goodenough.
Ten questions and answers are up for your perusal here, and hopefully the remaining questions will be done within the next few weeks.
There are some interesting little tidbits of information about the next expansion and future plans amongst the answers thus far, as well as a bit of insight into what actually goes on in the mind of a game designer!
* Update *
Some more things have been put on the site this past couple of days, namely Van Overbay's great overlays for you upgraders from BI's 4th Edition and a couple of painted minis in the gallery.
I am nearly done with version 1 of the extensions for Strange Eons, but not quite... they just need a polish though I think. In the mean time you could get yourself over to the Strange Eons website and score an up to date version of the fantastic creation tool in readiness. Make sure you get hold of the latest version (2.00.5), along with the original Talisman extension and the UI Grid Library from the plug-ins page!
In other news, Tim Street's unofficial conversion of Talisman to a PC platform has reached version 9 with the addition of 6 characters, some more monsters and a range of fixes.
I've also been working on a little expansion idea I had last week... Teaser below and more later...
Oh, and as if I could forget! I am working on making a gallery to display my own minis that are currently being painted by the very talented Steve Dean. It'll be a bit graphics heavy obviously, but it'll certainly be worth having a look!
Strange Eons News! 26th May 2009
Well, after much tweaking and a huge amount of work by Chris Jennings, the Talisman extension for use with Strange Eons (the fabulous custom component design tool for Arkham Horror) is now updated and ready for download.
The latest version of SE is 2.002 and is available on the main page (there is a patch from 2.00 or 2.00.1 if you have those already) and the latest version of the extension is 3.2 and is available from the plug-ins page.
It works really well and can produce most cards for Talisman and it is possible to adjust it to your tastes (with a bit of work) so you can add new card types and the like. You would do well to download and study the plug-in authoring kit before you rush at it like I was doing! It really makes sense to RTFM!
I plan on making a "how to" article for Talisman Island and will be posting a few alternative plugins with a few different options in time.
Using the tool is pretty straightforward, certainly more so than using expensive graphic apps, so give it a try! There are a huge range of features in the base program, including the ability to organise your individual creations into a page for printing and much more. In fact, I don't even know what half of the stuff does!
Sorry for the size of the image that follows, but I wanted to give an example of what can be made with Strange Eons. It's AWESOME!!!
Talisman Euro News! 11th May 2009
I have to say a very big thankyou to Birger Kraemer and Christian Stenner from Pegasus Spiele for very kindly sending me a copy of the German translation of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman this week.
Pegasus Spiele along with Heidelberger Spieleverlag are responsible for the production of Talisman in Germany and the good news is that it should not be long before German speakers will be able to play along with the Reaper expansion! If everything goes to plan then Talisman: Der Schnitter should be available by the end of July with the second expansion available at Spiel 09 in Essen later this year!
In addition to Der Schnitter from Pegasus Spiele & Heidelberger Spieleverlag, this year will see the release of yet more translations of The Reaper expansion by other international partners of FFG. La Faucheuse will come from Edge Entertainment for French players, Nexus Editrice from Italy will be releasing Il Mietitore and Polish speakers will be able to purchase Żniwiarz from Galakta.
I think I'm going to need some bigger shelves...
If you want to find out more about the international versions of Talisman there are a number of forums available from the various manufacturers as well as the main forums at FFG.
Talisman: The Dungeon News! 21st April 2009
It's available!! Check out the product page over at Fantasy Flight Games to see details of how you can get hold of a copy of the latest expansion for the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman!
The Dungeon features a new board and a whole lot of hurt for your characters, though it can be a shortcut to the Crown of Command and is home to new Treasures and many new dangers.
To find out more check out the previous articles published on the FFG site -
The Path Ahead The first glimpse of Talisman: The Dungeon
Digging Deeper The second preview of the upcoming Talisman: The Dungeon
What Lies Beneath... The next look at the upcoming Talisman: The Dungeon expansion
It's been a good week for Talisman with the news from FFG's Upcoming Products pages showing the expansion release date as April and the rules being posted online.
I thought would be nice to share a little bit of my happiness with you by showing you what now adorns my living room walls.
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!
LEGAL GUBBINS!!
This web site is completely unofficial and in no way endorsed by Games Workshop Limited. Talisman and all associated marks, names, characters, locations, units, illustrations and images from the Talisman world are either Registered, Trade Mark and/or Copyright Games Workshop Ltd 1983-2009, variably registered in the UK and other countries around the world. Used without permission. No challenge to their status intended. All Rights Reserved to their respective owners.
It goes without saying that everything presented on this site is copyright of its respective creator and is presented free on this site for the greater good of the Talisman Community. So please don't steal anything and try to sell or auction it off as your own work.
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.
