Comments on: FFG releases Revised Fourth Edition Talisman

By: Phil Reed

Phil Reed — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:58:18 +0000

I love the back of the box. It’s got a photo of the BI edition and says something along the lines of “If your Talisman looks like this then you need this upgrade!”

By: Allan Sugarbaker

Allan Sugarbaker — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:02:18 +0000

Hi James. Your comment got hung up in the spam filters. All fixed now.

I completely agree, James – FFG has enough former GW legacies to continue, it doesn’t need to offer a helping hand to customers of older editions. From a company perspective, thinking that way lies madness (and fiscal suicide, as you said).

But not upsetting owners of the fairly-recent fourth edition seems to have been a priority for FFG, in order to make sure the expansions would be seen in a more favorable light. Seen from that angle, a PDF or other free upgrade could have maximized the good will the Upgrade Pack was obviously designed to inspire.

I understand why it was handled this way. Just amused by it, is all.

By: Allan Sugarbaker

Allan Sugarbaker — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:37:52 +0000

Ah, that’s a good point – the rules written on the board for certain spaces, like the Chapel, Graveyard, Village, and Desert have changed slightly. As near as I can tell, the Upgrade Pack doesn’t replace those with stick-on spaces or the like – maybe those changes are simply summarized in the rulesheet.

By: Matt Cramsie

Matt Cramsie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:27:26 +0000

Will it provide all the details? I had heard that the board might have different artwork – if so, would this be purely cosmetic changes, or actually funtional?

Or has someone been leading me wrong?

By: James S.

James S. — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:10:30 +0000

True, Alan, but it’d be company suicide to offer a free upgrade for decisions made by the previous company that owned the game (and apparently didn’t care one way or the other) … and you’d never get the quality out of a PDF download that would’ve been even superior to the quality of the original game.

BTW you can download the fourth edition rules here:

http://new.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/Talisman/Talisman%20Rules2.pdf