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…apparently he forwarded it to the college president Jack P. Calareso who wrote me a letter that I received yesterday disputing my impression of the college.
You might remember I promised to post the letter I sent, I’m going to hold off a bit until I get permission to post the president’s response at the same time. As his letter was a private letter I’d rather not post it without consulting him first. That way you can get my opinion and his rebuttal at the same time and make up your own mind.
Was over a friend’s house who had the old talisman game including Talisman City and Talisman Dungeon.
Since the new set doesn’t yet have these expansions I wondered if there was a simple way to adapt them to the current game.
Since both the city and the Dungeon use their own cards on their own boards that solves one problem.
There are several spaces where your character can be augmented: The Magic Emporium can make you the High Mage. The King can appoint you Sheriff, you might end up as the King’s Champion or the Master Thief. Simply keep your figure and add the additional card.
On the board there are of course no items that can give you fate. You can handle this three ways:
You can ignore fate altogether
You can at the enchantress’ location use the Timescape roll as a way to increase increase fate.
You can on any roll of 6 on a single die or twelve on two dice and roll another die on 5 or 6 gain one fate.
The final problem is how to add the Dungeon Door cards and the patrol and the ferry, again there are three ways to handle it.
Blank or alignment cards can be used and converted to watch ferry or patrol cards.
Bag of Gold cards can be altered to add at least one each of the three cards to the deck.
Shuffle the dungeon, patrol and ferry adventure cards into their own mini deck. Each time you draw a standard adventure card roll three dice. On a Roll of 3,4 or 18 draw from the mini deck
Hopefully the talisman people will quickly come out with a proper city expansion but until then this will do.
City rules are here.
While writing this post I was pleased to discover that Fantasy Flight Games will shortly be releasing a Talisman Dungeon expansion:
Will you have the strength to take on the Lord of Darkness? Do you have the skill to avoid the traps filling the corridors within the dungeon? Be sure to check back as our own expeditionary party has journeyed to this haunted dungeon, and if they return, will be bringing back tales of the horrors found within the halls of the Dungeon.
Some other great shots at Talisman Island just keep scrolling. Hopefully the city expansion is not far behind.
…Because a million people who likely never would have rented Swing Vote now likely have it on their netflix list.
It would be interesting to see how the rental changes this week.
After this post…
I concede I couldn’t make it through all of Limbaugh’s tirade (it was Castro-esque in its length, bombast and reception).
Amazing Rush Limbaugh the one who opposes Castro is castro-esque and the guy who wants to deal with Castro and communist Cuba appeals to the “conservative” Sullivan.
Limbaugh takes us right back to the 1980s and 1990s – the old red-blue paradigm that has led to massive GOP losses. But Obama has reframed his opponents as the vested interests resisting reform.
Takes us back to the 80’s and 90’s when Reagan won landslides and a congress that ran on the contract with America ended 50 years of Democratic rule, this is a bad thing?
You know Andrew was one of the first blogs that I ever read, there was a time when I wouldn’t miss him daily. Now I just check occasionally to see how far he’s fallen or in moments like today to see him prove that he if he is going to hit the conservatism he still claims to own.
He is the neo-liberal, to paraphrase Rush he is now the favorite example of a conservative for liberals because he still uses the name but only hits us. It’s McCain before he won the nomination all over again.
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