The true joy of Talisman 2nd edition was forgetting about the crown and soending all your time in the City trying to become the Sherriff just so you could arrest people, or entering the dungeon with the 'plan' to roll a 6 on the final square and auto win, or seeing the player who's been in the leaf since turn one breeze their way to the optional ending card and reveal the Horrible Black Void.

Ah, good times.

Every single time you say "tal is man" my brain asks "is it?" and I chuckle quietly to myself.

"if it gets played it's good enough" 100%.

For me, the adventure story that unfolds through Talisman, with all its randomness and reliance on dice rolls and misc encounters (lack of skill and strategy) is beautiful. I understand the mechanics are simple, even too simple for naysayers, but it's not a bad game! 🎉

Loved Talisman as a Kid. Introduced it to my Kids recently. The Nostalgia was great but man did i remember this game differently. It was so much fun and the rules were so nice when i played it as a kid. As an adult it was just boring. But after i finished my son couldnt stop talking about the game and what he could have done differently. And how funny it was that the stupid Troll had 12 intellect in the endgame and won the game. Than i realized, this game does one thing really great. It hooks new player kids into a world. The mechanics become an thing to overcome to get to your goal. This game is the perfect introduction to boardgames if you want people to get into dungeon crawler or a fantasy setting.

My problem with the new cover is that it sucks artistically. It completely lacks appropriate drama. Talisman is a trashy, campy, sword & sorcery-type adventure game and the box cover needs to reflect that. Historically there's been combat, big-arse dragons, a sense of danger and the promise of treasure. You know, EMOTIONS. No kid will see Talisman on a shelf and go OOOH CROWN COLLECTION SIMULATOR!

It's like making the cover of Carcassonne a sketch of a meeple.

The ending monologue was absolutely harrowing

Always watching out for videos from you. The analysis, delivery, and humor is all the good stuff I'm here for.

I just want a new version of Space Crusade and loads of expansions

You are not a fat pig! You are a majestic, 23-toed dachshund that deserves to be called a good boy!!!

I played Talisman exactly once in my life. Chose to play as the Warrior, whom I named Steve the S**t-Kicker. Unfortunately for me, Steve had a bit of a problem which meant that he spent the majority of the game getting smashed in the Tavern. So while the rest of the players were racing to a close fought victory, Steve was still slumped over a table in the Tavern barely able to stand let alone take on a dragon.

10/10 experience would definately play again.

Saying "made by humans" can also mean "well it was outsourced to one human, other human looked at it and said nothing wrong, so we believed both cause it was really cheap to believe". Many such cases in a lot of spaces. Trust is gone. It'll only get worse

Honestly, adding the L-shaped piece is just F'ing brilliant.
That's how you DogGam do it!

I just got the new 5th edition game today at school and started playing it with my students after school.  They quite enjoyed it.  Lots of what you mentioned in the video rings so very true.  I grew up playing D&D, Heroquest, and Talisman 2nd edition.  Now I have an after-school club for students playing D&D Heroquest, and I just ordered a bunch of games, including Talisman and Escape the Dark Castle; all of this is to encourage my students to develop a love of boardgame playing and face-to-face interactions instead of being on phones.

"Forget it Jack, it's Tal-is-man."

A beautiful masterpiece. The video, not Talisman. Gods no, not Talisman.

I had to implement a few house rules to get the game fast enough that my kids would be willing to play. we would use fate points to adjust the distance of our moves, and movement rolls of 6 replenished fate points, you could always choose strength/craft to fight with, etc. The game ended up being an hour long, with an adult and two 10 year olds scrabbling for the crown of command at the same time.

That A.I. "artwork" is unforgiveable.

Wait, we can get Natalie Dormer reading boardgame rulebooks?  Um, asking for a friend...

+1 for Lords of Waterdeep. Played that with my extended family while visiting on vacation and it was a blast

No doubt the real pillow will be replaced by a card with a picture of a pillow. Pfft.