Talisman balance
Kevin Chu
> The Prophetess, Wizard, and the owner of the wand get spells regenerated
> auto-matically. If those players are willing to be very free with their
> spells, they can run through an amazing number of spells each turn, and
> become far more powerful than any other character. Most of the spells can
> be wasted (such as barrier on a useless square, turning any number (like 0)
> of items into gold, healing a character with 4 lives, etc.) Thus by simply
> running through the spell deck, these characters can almost always have the
> one spell they most want.
> Has anyone else encountered this phenomenon, and if so, how do you deal with
> it? --Tim.
The best solution is to play with people who play fair and don't take advantage
of small holes in the rules. If that doesn't work, then limit the number of
spells you can cast per turn.
Remeber, the characters should be picked randomly, so no one should get any
sort of benefit.
For those of you who like the game, I recommend the expansion set.
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Kevin Chu
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Bob Simpson
> The best solution is to play with people who play fair and don't take
> advantage of small holes in the rules.
Oh, come on, half the fun of these games is finding (and plugging) the
holes that you mention. Why do you think that people still play
Dungeons and Dragons? B-)
For example, getting changed into a toad in Talisman is a crock of cow
patties, so we changed it to suit our style of play; the player on your
right picks three treasures for you to drop, and your character is
changed to stone for 3 turns. Sure, it's not "portable", but as long
as you don't mind different folks house rules, or agree to play
strictly by the published rules what's the big deal?
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Dr. Bob
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The opinions expressed here are only loosely based on the facts.