Talisman: Digital Edition

Talisman: Digital Edition is a digital adaptation of the Revised 4th Edition of the fantasy board game Talisman. You choose an adventurer and race across a perilous land to reach the Crown of Command, a magical artifact that can destroy your rivals and make you ruler of the kingdom. Along the way, you roll dice, face enemies and challenges, and build your character’s strength and resources.

Characters and alignment

Each character has distinct strengths, weaknesses and special abilities. Characters begin with a Good, Neutral or Evil alignment, which affects how they interact with board spaces; cards and spaces can change that alignment during the game.

The board and its dangers

Most spaces require you to draw one or more Adventure Cards. These can reveal Events, Followers, Enemies, Places, Strangers or Objects, including powerful weapons and magical artifacts. Adventure Cards help you build your inventory and grow more powerful, while deadly monsters, traps and magical disasters threaten your progress.

You can increase Strength, Craft, Lives, Fate and Gold, but can lose these resources as quickly as you gain them. You can earn resources through Trophies, certain Place Cards and board spaces, or Objects you find. Before entering the dangerous Inner Region, where creatures have high Strength and Craft, you need to build up your character. From there, you climb the steep steps to the Crown of Command.

Multiplayer

Up to six players can play online or locally, including hot-seat play. Online games can be saved and continued later.

The digital edition

The game includes the full ruleset of the Revised 4th Edition, released in 2008, and access to its expansions and content. Talisman was originally released by Games Workshop in 1983.