Sounds like some fun elements added here. Talisman is an old favorite in our home,and we are looking forward to some game nights with the new 5E. Thanks for the peek.
Thanks for watching. I think the co-op rules are pretty well thought out. They seem to have made an effort to add as many rules as possible that require discussion and team play.
I am trying to get the spoiler video up this weekend as well for those people who want to know exactly what is in the expansion, and which things will integrate with normal competitive play.
How did this video slip through my notifications? (Or was it just me?) Anyway, I bought Talisman, and I've mucked about with it, and intend to play it with some old friends this autumn. If it is as good as it seems (and as popular), I'll be buying Alliances, too.
I am experiencing significant drop-off of viewership in the last couple of months. RU-vid sometimes changes the algorithm, or doesn't send out notifications like it should (or just outright unsubscribes people). You might want to check your notifications for this channel and make sure they are still set to "all."
It's completely different. I wouldn't play Talisman (co-op or otherwise) to get the kind of experience I get from HeroQuest. They are both excellent games, but enjoyable for their own reasons. HeroQuest, of course, is always going to get my vote, but it's not really a fair fight!
how much of this expansion can be included into regular Talisman? can the villains be used in a normal game? can the new spells be shuffled into the spell deck?
I really struggled with this in the review, because as soon as you start talking about what you can keep to use in your normal games you are starting to spoil contents of the boxes and envelopes, so I wanted to save all that for my spoiler video. But, in general, most of the expansion is geared around co-op play and doesn't get mixed into regular games. Officially, you will be able to use the contents of all five boxes, two spells, and four adventure cards in normal games. Villains are not intended for normal games, but you could quite easily add them with house rules if you really wanted to. Hope that helps.
As I said in the review, one player could play solo, but the idea is there should be at least two heroes, and some people don't like playing more than one character.
That's not true though. There are some co-op games where the players have hidden information from each other and must work together despite this. A game like that wouldn't hold up solo very well at all.
I wish they'd just bloody release this already. I mean, it's done isn't it? People have copies they bought at conventions in some countries and I believe it has been shipped around the world to the countries that didn't have those conventions but the retailers are just waiting for the release date. Have I got my facts wrong?
It's definitely done. What I received is a final retail product, not a preproduction sample. However, that doesn't mean they have all the distribution sorted out. Plus, Hasbro is a gigantic organisation with individual entities handling each territory, each of which is sort of running on its own schedule. The release date in the UK is set as September 26, and in the US it's October 1, and it's very common for products to release before the estimated retail date, so I don't think you will have long to wait now.
