MCDM Plays Talisman - Ep. 1, Part 1 

A fun, silly game that's converted many thousands of people into gamers. Perhaps not the deepest gameplay, best not to overthink it.

Excited to finally see what this game is about after hearing it mentioned so many times.

Damn... Everybody gangsta until the bard rocks up blasting War Pigs from the back of a giant iguana.

A game that I think would be fun to watch you guys play is Secret Hitler.

I enjoy just about everything MCDM puts out IMMENSELY, but this one takes the cake for me. There's such a great atmosphere as they're basically just hanging out for 4 hours taking the piss, with the game acting as a backdrop. The game itself is interesting, but the commentary and things like "PedLAR" are what cracked me up and keeps me coming back to watch MCDM content!

Matt clearly needs to get his Warrior of Chaos converted to Good (if that's even possible - I forget, it might have a special rule where it isn't) and then continue his crusade to convert everyone else to Evil.

It hurts so much to see Matt forget about his gift from gods of Chaos.

I don't think you do get experience from the champion. We've never played as such. To get XP, don't you have to kill Monsters or Spirits? The Champion is neither. He is a follower. If a card is occupying the space, you cannot choose to ignore the card and draw a new card, when the space says draw one card. Halloween should not have been drawn on the space with that medallion given it says draw one card. The genie should keep his spell after the Magic Vortex. This spell isn't the Player's. It is specifically the Genie's. The Magic Vortex takes all spells from all players, but it says nothing about taking spells from followers.

Sure, it's a lot of RNG. But it's actually fun to watch. I'd say it's totally worth the time. Play it more.

I absolutely love the friendship ending power of Talisman. I've only played the modern print though, it was a real treat seeing the old art :)

O.Ds werewolf roll was the best part of this whole video.

1:31:44 another excellent but unoticed Monty Python reference from Anna 😂

Matt you need to upgrade to a green dot laser pointer for better visibility. Love watching all the games and finding new ones to play with friends.

I really enjoyed this video. I’m always amazed/entertained by everything Matt does. His personality and demeanor in all of his other videos is so pleasant and optimistic. I enjoy seeing how much he clearly loathes every second of this game when everybody else seem’s to be enjoying it.

Really love the addition of the "now playing" State Azure track.

I’m starting to rewatch the chain. I need something to hold me off. Y’all are amazing and are fucking hilarious 😂

Man, Talisman gets unfairly crapped on so often on the internet. The 4th edition has removed most of the OP cards and characters, and tightened the rules up greatly. Of course there's still RNG, but WAY less than the first 3 editions. Add the corner board expansions and the reliance in RNG to win is reduced massively, as each corner serves a strategic purpose. And it's simplicity and rules on dice, cards and movement give you a straightforward, strict idea of what you can do in a turn. There is no mucking about and getting hit by Analysis Paralysis like more complex games.

1:07:59 Matt's truly embodying the spirit of the Chaos Warrior

The old school Talisman board looks dope af.

4:32 Matt: "It is easy to draw a character from this and if you've played this game before go 'Oh. I'm going to win,' because that character is the best." 5:10 Also Matt: "Okay. I can be a Chaos Warrior..." 😂

Got this game when I was 8. All the added supplements. Hilarious if someone falls into the void instead of the crown.

This was delicious. On par with dune, albeit much more slow.

The digital version of this game is much smoother. The UI is funky, but it helps you learn the game. After a few sessions, I already ordered the physical board game

Hay Matt I love your content and can't wait for Kingdoms and Warfare! I was wondering if you would be interested in running an OSR one shot on your Twitch channel and if so I would suggest the Fantastic Heroes and Witchery system. It works very well with 1E AD&D and is a ton of fun. Anyway just an idea and keep up the amazing work!

I don't think you can draw a card if there is already a card on that space.

Glad I finally got to the end of this to find out that Matt can use the voice in real life as well as in the Dune game

Despite your warnings, I managed to enjoy watching this. Matt has mentioned this game so many times that it was nice to see what its all about. :)

You can buy a computerized version of this game on Steam.

You're actually playing Talisman on utube. Fan for life. But I think it gets a bad rap for being too RNG. Especially unfair when you add the expansion boards. Knowledge of what can happen and an idea of what is in each deck does = better play. And players most certainly DO have the ability to F with each other. The problem with just the base game is that its too.... basic.

I have the original 1983 Talisman somewhere. Many happy memories.

töm would be a great DM i can definitely see it

Hail Ped-Lar, god of commerce and guardian of the river Toms!

Matt: "Any game that takes you that long to realise it's not a good game is a classic game." Talisman was one of the first board games I ever played, and I vvvvery quickly figured out it's not so much as game as it is a random event generator. Glad people enjoy it, it's just not for me.

I was a game tester for what would become Talisman Timescape. In testing though it was called Fourth Dimension. I still have the paper board, rules and cards for it. It looked way different then, I guess that’s what testing is for.

Never seen the random ending. Our house rule to make the game more fun and don't let one player race ahead so easy: When you change in dead monsters to raise abilities the cost to raise is equal to the number you are raising to. I.e. to raise to Strength 8, you have to change in monsters with a combined str of 8.

This reminds me of "Quest For Shangri La," The board game put out a decade ago by Psychopathic Records. Or as most people call it... "Juggalo-Monopoly".

"Oh the Rod of Ruin..." ... so THAT'S where it migrated to Magic: The Gathering from...

It might not be complex but it is very evocative, I can confirm that it takes several hours to not complete, pack away and put on a shelf for years.

The pause button on RU-vid mobile fits perfectly inside the deck in the middle of the board.

Jerry always doing a great job! I had herd of talisman, but never played, seems so much fun!

I love watching you play this game, it's nice and easy to follow from up here above the board!

3:31:12 I mean he can still bounce. 5+2+6(1d6)=13. 12+1(1d6)=13.

Actually, modern baby carrots are actually a different sort of carrot. Typically of a sweeter verity.

I really loved this! Funny friends, interesting game mechanics, awesome!

I remember when me and my friends used to play, we made a rule that no one could pick the wizard character because he ALWAYS has TWO spells. He was too much of a powerhouse.

The best tabletop game there is. Pure and simple.

Oof, used to play this edition with my mum & brothers. Talisman is like schlocky 80s pop music. It's good. But its terrible.

long after the fact i know but there's no way it's intended for that werewolf to just never reroll it's strength over multiple rounds. Talisman sucks but it's not that bad.

3:10:00 Tom chose to encounter another player that was on the same space, so he should NOT have drawn any cards after that. Matt even described this rule at the beginning of the game.

I’ve played this with expansions and multiple times I’ve died turn one. This game can be absolute bullshit sometimes

With all the times Finger of Death was mentioned, I’m really surprised that no one made a Finger of Little Death joke 😏

came back to watch this and the dune game; its still phenomenal. there are two things you need to know about the glade ...

This is the weirdest game of Candy Land I've ever seen

"I'm connected to you", says Matt to Matt.

Is there no footage of ODnD?

Just because you have a really good character, it doesn't mean you'll win. There's a good amount of chance around this. When I first got introduced to this game, we had a friend of the family who created a few characters to go with this, just about the same power level. To get characters we rolled 3 dice, choosing in which order. And, yes, that meant we had 216 characters, with Timescape, Dungeon, and Adventure boards. And, if I remember right, we rolled 3 characters to start with each.

One time my friends begged me to play. I finally relented. We were playing with Timescape, by the way. I was the first to go. Someone how I ended up in the Timescape on the first turn and through incredible luck end up in the center of the board and it was the Crown of Command. I won in the first turn! I got up thanking them for the game. They of course would not let me get away that easily.

Our experience: The Seer is the most powerful character by far (draws one encounter card on each square, chose to encounter it or draw another which must be encountered.). Edit: Sorry, it was the Prophetess.

Talisman is my favorite boardgame of all time . 🍺

You are now all sick because matt wouldn't stop touching his face. You must all quarantine in place and play dnd for the next two weeks

Monopoly is one of the most known board games and its completely random. The only choices in the game is how many houses or hotel to put on a property and then later if there is even any point in trading but theres no point because the game still only comes down to what spots people land on

I bought this game back in 1984... got also all the extensions along the years... This boardgame is a gem and is awesomly lookin' good :)

Doppelgänger: Strength: [Tim Allen noise]

i love it when you guys play tabletop games

52:08 The berzerker doesn't die when you beat him. He moves. 53:05 Nevermind.

Twenty minutes after finishing the VOD, I was ordering myself a copy of Talisman. Thanks, Matt!

This is a game that works with people who aren't gamers. It does convert people. It did with me.

For those who don't know, a pedlar is a traveling merchant while a peddler is a person selling drugs or illegal goods.

This game at least in this edition has some serious seventies vibes. That great art is STONED 🙂.

King arthur: "on second thought, lets not go to talisman, it tis a silly place."

My sides are pulverized

Fantasy Flight lost the licence to Talisman back in 2017 ,but you can still find many copies on the net.

i have this edition of talisman

do the new expansions work for the old edition cos i still use the dungeon expansion from this edition

Played thi as a child and I turn 40 this year.... good memories and I still remember this game and all it’s rules

How absolutely weak sauce of TOM... disappointing.

Bought the Pegasus Spiele edition yesterday and the Reaper expansion today ... thanks Matt and the gang; influenced 😜

The Chaos Warrior comes upon The Minstrel lost in the woods and seduces him into joining the forces of evil in exchange for the path out

This seems like a fancy mulriplayer nethack with all the randomness. Tonne of fun though!

I remember playing this game just chasing players as a Troll (one of the available characters) in the outermost edge of the board because killing the other players was a legit early game strategy . such good times

I missed something there, is the board larger than it normally is?

That is so funny, It took me about 10 games to realize this game was kinda bad. I'm so happy I'm not alone on this XD

I wonder what a Talisman 2 would play like if MC made it.

1:00:17 There could be worse things under him, like more demons!

1:00:40 Can't you only have one quest at a time? 1:39:35 The FAQ clarifies that you cannot use the archer if you encounter the space or a character on the space. 1:55:50 Töm read his ability at 6:40 four those who want to check. 2:09:00 You still encounter the rest of the cards. "... only if all Instructions by Cards (1 - 3) have been followed and all Enemies are either vanquished or evaded, the following Adventure Cards can be used/taken" 2:17:50 "P-E-D-E-E-L-E-R" apparently spells "peddler." 2:52:55 The genie it's not a character. I would say that he is unaffected by magical vortex. 2:59:05 When you encounter multiple strength enemies at once they add together against you. That encounter should be treated as a strength 5 enemy. 3:17:25 The marsh should affect Töm's character, because he only has 4 strength. The additional 4 is from the ape and axe, which only add in combat.

I AM PEDLAR the eterniun traveling peddler.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SaxIQvdXJZk.html What a shot!

Advanced Killer Ludo, as it is also known! :D

A little bit criminal that the actual Talisman board is not this big.

These rules seem slightly different to what I am used to. I thought the talisman was needed to get to the crown of command not the inner region?

My group JUST PLAYED THIS for the first time! Glad this came up :)

nice 3 hr spoiler proofing after OD won in the first 20 mins :p

Art has some heavy Ralph Bakshi vibes for me.

The Warrior of Chaos is sooooo overpowered! BOOO Matt! :P

you are ~eveeeell~ the Kids in the Hall reference was not lost :)

unexpected La Dispute

Chasm of Doom is my favourite gamebook.

Wow. So much cheating with that Berserker.

In Poland the game was called "Magia i Miecz" (Magic and Sword) and was very popular in the late '80 or at least it was popular in the place I lived. The main board's graphic was just slightly bit different and made of a glossy paper. As for the cards, if I remember correctly, they were made in black and white by some polish artist. Check it out, google "Magia i Miecz karty" as the black and white art (no shading, only black and white colors were used) looks really astonishing and in many cases better than its colorful equivalents, for example DEMON craft 10 - portal.strategie.net.pl/PortalImages/Recenzje_Gier_Planszowych/MiM/MiM%20(7b).jpg

Essentially Fantasy Snakes and Ladders but real fun