A
fantasy board game produced in the early 1980s by
Games Workshop. Crossing the bridge between
counter-based board
games and
role-playing, the
object was to wander through 3 levels of fantasy settings, collecting
followers,
weapons,
armour, and various magical
objects until the
player was strong enough to attempt to win the game by
ascending to the central area of the
board, thus gaining ultimate
power over the other players.
Several add-on sets were produced, including Talisman: The
Adventure, Talisman:
Timescape, Talisman: The
City and others.
Apart from their "epic
marketing games" (
Warhammer etc), this was one of the most
popular games that
Games Workshop ever published.