Over on the Warhammer TV channel on Twitch, the licensing team from Games Workshop have just announced that Talisman: Origins, a single-player quest experience in the same vein as Talisman Prologue, will be coming to Steam and mobile on May the 16th!
More news as we have it!
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!!!!
Woe to you, oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the Beast with wrath
Because he knows the time is short…
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Beast
For it is a human number
Its number isSix hundred and sixtySIX!
Gosh, that takes me back…
Anyway, back to the news… those teases (in a nice way) at Nomad Games have put out yet another teaser for the next expansion coming to Talisman: Digital Edition, and this time the image has the name “AB_Beast_6“!
The next challenge on social media is to get some pictures together featuring the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman and its fourteen expansions, to create a larger image of the whole collection together. Take a look over on the Steam pages to see the announcement along with an example image. It’d be good if you include your username in the picture too, so that people can see what you’ve got.
The next teaser image will be spoiled on the Nomad Games Discord channel when the challenge is complete, and it’ll be an in-game shot from the new expansion, so get to it everyone!
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
It’s the weekend again (that was quick!), so here’s another preview image from The Realm of Souls expansion for Talisman: Digital Edition from Nomad Games and Asmodee Digital for you to ponder over!
The Rebellious Spirit is a Cursed Follower that might prove to be a bit of a distraction to you and your opponent should either of you be in possession of any trophies. So you’ll want to rid yourself of it as soon as you can!
In other news, Pegasus Spiele have said that it’s a bit early to be showing off the new Talisman-based card game (Clash of Heroes) and RPG (Talisman Adventures) at Spielwarenmesse, but there will be some sort of announcement regarding the reprinting of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman later in the month. I wonder if this means they will have something to show at UK Games Expo at the end of May?
Realm of Souls Beta Announcement on Steam
The Polish games publisher Galakta teased an announcement yesterday, and it’s certainly a great one for fans of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman!
They have recently signed an agreement to reprint Talisman: Magia i Miecz and its expansions, so that’s now THREE international publishers that will be making Talisman products going forward.
As well as Galakta, Giochi Uniti in Italy has released a reprint and Pegasus Spiele from Germany have been showing off the game at Spielwarenmesse this week!
I wonder if anything else will be announced this week!?!?
Thanks to Michal Ekrt of ADC Blackfire Entertainment, who has been wandering the halls at Spielwarenmesse in Nürnberg, we can see a little bit of what Pegasus Spiele has to offer for fans of Talisman and its worlds!
There’s no sign at the moment of Talisman: Das Kartenspiel – Clash of Heroes yet, but we can see a display featuring the reprinted German-language Revised 4th Edition of Talisman, Talisman: Legendary Tales and a banner for Talisman Adventures – Das Fantasy-Rollenspiel, the fantasy RPG coming later in the year from the mind of Ian Lemke and his team!
With a bit of luck we’ll get to see a lot more from Pegasus Spiele during the week!
In a week where we’ve been treated to news of an upcoming card game, Talisman: Das Kartenspiel – Clash of Heroes, set in the Talisman world, we can now add that a reprint of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman to the list of exciting things due from Pegasus Spiele this year!
Whilst looking for news from Spielwarenmesse about the new game, I came across a news article on the Brettspielbox site with references to the latest version of the board game!
At first I pondered whether it was a misunderstanding, but a store page has now been added to the Pegasus Spiele website with more details.
There’s only a German-language version listed at the moment, but the same is true of Clash of Heroes, so we’ll have to see what it all means.
The game is marked at €49,95 and due for release around June this year.
There’s no news yet on other language editions or expansions, but keep checking back for more information as we get it!
Talisman: Revised 4th Edition at Pegasus Spiele
Mike Mularz made a post on Twitter with a reply he got from Games Workshop in the US regarding the re-licensing of Talisman to another company with products due in 2019.
This mirrors the reply that Kyle Schilling got back in September, so it looks like it is a standard response to enquiries about the game, but it does confirm that things are definitely afoot!
I’ve said it elsewhere, but I’ve got my fingers crossed for a continuation of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman as there is so much more design space that could be explored, especially given that Nomad Games is now developing ‘digital-exclusive’ content with the Realms of Souls expansion.
We’ve also got the Talisman RPG, a card game and a dice game to come from Pegasus Spiele PLUS the reprint of Relic coming from Wizkids, so it’s going to be a big year for the game!
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