The code goblins at Nomad Games and Asmodee Digital must have been very busy of late as they’ve only gone and announced MORE free downloadable content for Talisman: Origins which will be out on Steam, iOS and Android on the 18th of July!
This time it’s the Warrior that gets the spotlight in A Warrior’s Tale, a new adventure inspired by the original quests featured in Talisman Prologue.
Great news for fans of Talisman AND of the Batman Universe as Talisman: Batman Super-Villains Edition from USAopoly (The OP) is now available to purchase!
I don’t have my copy as yet, but can’t wait to get hold of it and have the fantastic miniatures painted up and play through the corridors of Arkham Asylum!
Although I don’t have much news to tell about the game as yet, you can check out the game entry on BoardGameGeek where Papa_Tom has uploaded a host of images for you to see.
Another piece of news is that USAopoly will have the game for sale early next month at Gen Con, so lucky visitors will be able to score a copy there!
Along with the release of Talisman: Origins and The Ancient Beasts expansion for Talisman: Digital Edition, the launch of Games Workshop‘s Skulls for the Skull Throne promotion on Steam has a huge range of discounts on the whole range of Talisman products from Nomad Games!
Talisman: Digital Edition has a massive 75% off and nearly all of its expansions and character packs are also on offer at between 30% to 52% off!
Talisman: The Horus Heresy also has 75% off the base game with all expansions being discounted by either 40% or 50%!
Talisman: Origins has a nice little 10% discount as a launch bonus!
Talisman: Prologue is discounted by a HUGE 80% so it’s well worth picking up to complete the set!
Nomad Games has also been streaming via Twitch (and Steam) as part of the promotion, showing off Talisman: Origins today, and they will be back online at 7pm (BST), so swing by and join them using the link below.
Tomorrow sees the launch of the newest adaptation of your favourite board game with Talisman: Origins coming from Nomad Games and Asmodee Digital on Steam, iOS and Android!
Experience the origins of historic events in the world of Talisman, such as the creation of the Crown of Command, the return of the Rragons, the Ifrit war and the rise of the Guilds.
Not only that, but also rearing its head tomorrow will be The Ancient Beasts expansion for Talisman: Digital Edition which sees the land overrun by terrifying titans.
The Quest for the Crown of Command might just have to take a back seat while you try to survive!
The store pages over on the Pegasus Spiele website have just been updated with entries for all of the upcoming reprints of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman and its expansions, and they are all listed for September this year.
Well, all except for Das Hochland, Die Feuerlande and Kataklysmus which are listed as August, but they could be typos!
An interesting addition is the translated versions of I Reami Perduti (The Lost Realms), originally produced by Giochi Uniti, which now has a working title of The Realms or Die Königreiche (The Kingdoms… I think).
You’ll have noted that in the Pegasus Spiele 2019 Catalogue, the preview image features the name The Lost Realms but, as we know, these things are subject to change.
What’s great to see are the retail prices listed for the game, with the base game of Talisman at €49.95, “small” expansions at €19.95, “large” expansions at €34.95. Cataclysm is listed at €39.95, but you do get a lot in the box. The Realms expansion is marked at €14.95, which has no miniatures of course!
There’s nothing new to share yet about Talisman: The Card Game – Clash of Heroes or Talisman Adventures – The Fantasy Role Playing Game, but I believe that they are still expected to be released at Gen Con in August. Who knows, maybe we’ll see some advance copies of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman there too?!
Talisman on the Pegasus Spiele Store
Sometimes, you just sit at home and have a root around the search engines to see if there are any tidbits of news about your favourite board game, which is Talisman, by the way!
Other times, you just have to look in front of your nose. So I did.
Today, I noticed that Pegasus Spiele had a catalogue up on their site, featuring all of the games that they are pushing for 2019, and got very excited when I found a reference to the upcoming licenses game of Talisman – Das Kartenspiel: Clash of Heroes along with a mockup of the box art, provisional contents list and a game overview in German. There was also an entry for Talisman: Legendäre Abenteuer and the previously noted German-language reprint of Talisman: Die Magische Suche, 4. Edition.
Then I got to thinking if there might be an English-language version of the catalogue and… OMG was there!!!
The “US Catalog 2019” not only features a whole section dedicated to the Talisman World that Pegasus Spiele is adding all sorts of great stuff to, but also a few surprises!
Talisman: Legendary Tales, Talisman: The Card Game – Clash of Heroes, Talisman: Adventures – The Fantasy Role Playing Game and a full reprint of the entire back catalogue for the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman, INCLUDING The Nether Realm and The Deep Realms expansions in the new boxed format recently championed by Giochi Uniti in I Reami Perduti or The Lost Realms expansion!!!
I’m not going to be posting any content lists or what have you here, as things are obviously subject to change, but my goodness there’s a lot of stuff happening with Talisman this year, and we’ve also got new content coming for Talisman: Digital Edition from Nomad Games, two licensed versions of Talisman to come from USAopoly, the two new editions of Relic from WizKids and a dice game still to come from Pegasus Spiele!!!
More news when we hear it and when I’ve stocked up on more exclamation marks!!!!
There’s been much speculation about whether the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman would be seeing a reprint in English, and it would seem that it definitely is!
Following a lead from ‘Boodog‘ on BoardGameGeek, I decided to have a little search around the dark corners of the Internet, and discovered that Game Nerdz have put game entries on their store for preorders from Pegasus Spiele. Not just the base game of Talisman, or the few expansions that were reprinted by Games Workshop most recently, but EVERYTHING except the Print on Demand titles!
Another bit of delving revealed that preorders were up on the GTS Distribution site along with a countdown timer of 10 days for retailers to get their orders in, so it seems that things are moving rather quickly.
There are no new boxart images on the site, and there are old FFG boxes shown on the retail site, but it’s happening!
So, to recap… if you are missing the base game of Talisman or The Reaper, The Dungeon, The Frostmarch, The Highland, The Sacred Pool, The Dragon, The Blood Moon, The City, The Firelands, The Woodland, The Harbinger & The Cataclysm, then just bide your time and you should be able to snag a copy soon without having to pay some of the exorbitant prices that these boxes are commanding at the moment. Hoorah!
Given that the German reprint of the Talisman coming from Pegasus Spiele is slated for June this year, we could be looking at a bumper Summer for Talisman!
Hopefully someone will speak nicely to Giochi Uniti and ask if their combination expansion, I Reami Perduti, that includes The Nether Realm and The Deep Realms, might get printed in English too!
More as we hear it…
Speculation thread on BoardGameGeek
RETAIL Preorders on Game Nerdz
The Veil has been breached! Ghostly wailings have been heard throughout the lands of Talisman as The Realm of Souls expansion has been released!
In the new digital-exclusive offering, Nomad Games have produced a great new take on what happens when you die within the game, with new Characters and new Endings to enhance your quest for the Crown.
The expansion is now available on Steam, iOS and Android and it seems there will be more to come judging by the comments in the announcement –
“Having spent so much time immersed in the world of Talisman the Nomad team have been asking themselves the question what comes next? We’ve come up with a good number of concepts and principles that we believe are true to Talisman and we’d like to share the first one with you.”
Exciting times ahead!
The Realm of Souls Store Page on Steam
The talented folk at Nomad Games have been working very hard recently, not only with the beta of The Realm of Souls expansion for Talisman: Digital Edition, but also with the AEG game Mystic Vale which was released today on Steam.
In the most tenuous of links to this achievement, the artwork that I bring you tonight from the upcoming expansion is the Never-ending Mist (Mist… Mystic… never mind!) which is a Magic Object that will help you avoid unwanted attention while you are a Ghost character.
There’ll be a few more images to see from the expansion before release, so keep checking back to see what’s on offer. Hopefully in between times we’ll be seeing more news about reprints of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman and the new games in the Talisman world from Pegasus Spiele!
Realm of Souls Beta Announcement on Steam
Talisman: Digital Edition at Nomad Games
It’s always good to see Talisman featured on the Games Workshop website, and this time it’s the turn of Talisman: Legendary Tales from Pegasus Spiele.
A marketing email sent out by GW today links to a new page dedicated to a huge range of licensed products and, though the game is not yet available for sale on the Pegasus Spiele web store, it has been seen in the wild at a number of retailers across the water in Canada at least.
Hopefully this means that it will be winging its way to some local game stores as we speak!
Licensed Products page at Games Workshop
