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Nomad Games announces Fighting Fantasy, Talisman Digital Edition, and Mystic Vale for Switch

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by rawmeatcowboy
15 November 2019
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Nomad Games has announced a triple threat of digital board games for the Switch. The company is bringing over Fighting Fantasy on Nov. 29th, 2019, followed by Talisman Digital Edition and Mystic Vale in 2020. Check out info on all three games below.

Fighting Fantasy

Travel through the land of Allansia in your quest to become a legendary adventurer. Play through three iconic Fighting Fantasy gamebooks - City of Thieves, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Citadel of Chaos. Discover these classic adventures in a whole new way!

Create your own adventures in a dangerous land full of monsters, treasures and traps. From renowned authors Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone (co-founders of Games Workshop) and Nomad Games, Fighting Fantasy Legends is an epic role-playing card game set in the classic world of Fighting Fantasy. Can you survive the dangerous streets of Port Blacksand, the murky depths of Firetop Mountain or the looming shadows of The Citadel?

Featuring a dice-based combat system unique to Fighting Fantasy Legends, where you level up your dice as you play. Choose to increase your strength or your luck, so that you can increase your chances of dealing devastating damage to your opponents and evading deadly traps!

Never experience the same adventure twice! Each location has treasure, monster and event cards for you to uncover, shuffled into a deck you then draw from. Will you stumble into a deadly trap? Or encounter a helpless villager looking for their saviour?

With unique cards in each location, expect danger around every turn. Unveil cards to discover fiendish creatures, powerful objects and dramatic events as you play!

Thousands of choices as you play, making each game unique.
Powerful adversaries, such as Balthus Dire, Zagor the Warlock and Zanbar Bone.
Kill monsters and add them to your Creature Codex.
Iconic characters, such as Nicodemus the Wizard, Gareth Yaztromo and O'Seamus the Leprechaun.
Unlockable titles and achievements for completing challenges.
Permadeath mode - not for the faint hearted!

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Talisman Digital Edition - The Magical Quest Game for 1 to 6 players.

The officially licensed multiplayer version of the classic fantasy adventure board game, Talisman.

In Talisman Digital Edition, there are 14 characters a player can control, from the heroic Warrior to the powerful Sorceress. In this perilous adventure, players battle it out to journey across a dangerous land and be the first to claim the Crown of Command, a magical artefact with the power to destroy all rivals and make the bearer the true ruler of the kingdom. On your travels, you will need strength, courage and some good dice rolls to survive the dangers you face and beat your opponents to the centre of the board.
Features -
Multiplayer modes for up to 6 players.
Play against AI opponents.
14 characters to choose from.
17 powerful spells to cast.
Many expansions available.
Detailed, interactive tutorial.
Based on the Revised 4th Edition by Fantasy Flight Games.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Talisman?
Talisman is a board game in which you move around the board building up your character’s strength and magic power by battling monsters, finding treasures, completing quests and trying to be the first player to reach the centre space – the Crown of Command.

Can I play dirty?
That’s at the very core of Talisman! Cast spells at other players to make them miss turns! Steal from them! Turn them into toads! Send powerful allies to do your fighting for you!

How replayable is the game?
The emergent nature of the game means that every game will tell its own tale. The board starts with just the playing pieces and builds up to become a land filled with terrible danger and fabulous treasure! As you move around the board, you must make careful decisions about where to travel as each space can become more dangerous or more helpful as the game progresses. To help you get around, players can use things like teleporting, magic portals and fate, which allows you to re-roll your dice to get different results.

How long is a game of Talisman?
The physical board game can take 2-5 hours with 6 players, but our digital version cuts that down drastically, with an offline 6 player game typically taking no more than 1 hour. Offline and online games can be saved and resumed at any time so your adventures can take as long as you like! We’ve also added some features which decrease the length of games – House rules and Runestone cards. House rules change the basic rules slightly to speed-up the game and Runestone cards, exclusive to this digital edition, give characters extra abilities and allow them to become very powerful much quicker, making for shorter games.

Is there a hotseat mode?
Yes! Look your opponents in the eyes as you face them in deadly combat or sneak up from the shadows and steal their favourite items! All of the fun and social enjoyment of the physical game is captured in the digital version, but with no setup time!

What’s included with the base game and are there expansions?
For the initial purchase, everything that you get with the physical board game is included – all of the characters, spells and adventure cards, plus a few bonuses we've added. Many expansions are available now. These add lots more spells, events, monsters, characters and alternative endings! Extra characters are also available to purchase, including rare characters from Talisman’s history.

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Mystic Vale

Take on the role of a druidic clan and use your blessings to heal the Valley of Life. This task doesn’t come easy though, it requires both courage and caution as it can be easy to overwhelm the land if you’re careless or wield too much power.

Based on the Origins award-winning board game from AEG, get ready for an all-new deck-building experience in Mystic Vale. With the innovate Card Crafting System, you can keep improving and building your cards to create a diverse and effective deck.

Mystic Vale is easy to pick up for those new to deck-building games, yet is challenging even for those skilled in the genre. Practice against AI opponents from easy to hard and if that's not challenging enough you can add up to 3 AI players which makes the game an even bigger challenge. That perfect combo card could be picked up long before it’s your turn again!

If you think you have what it takes to battle other druids, Mystic Vale has Online Multiplayer where you can find and create public or private rooms.

Cards combine in a variety of different ways creating powerful combos. What combo wins one match might not win you your next one, though. If you’re a risk-taker, Mystic Vale has a push-your-luck element, but if you spoil your hand, you’ll miss your turn and maybe even that special card you were hoping to collect.
Remember, keep an eye on your opponent’s cards to see what advantage they may have over you and which cards they may want.

Mystic Vale debuts a new approach to the deck-building genre. You start and play through the game with the same 20 cards, however, each card has 3 slots available within it which you can add advancements to by buying them from the field.
Each advancement has different abilities and properties, which when mixed together can create powerful combos. Some cards will offer you extra resources and perks but they may come at a high cost. Determine your strategy and build your deck to your play style.

Find online matches within the community or host your own private matches with friends. You can set the matches to suit you, whether you want an extended pool, playing with/without expansions or want to add turn timers to keep the game moving quickly. Online multiplayer is also available cross-platform so you can play against your fellow druids no matter if they’re on PC, Android or iOS.

If your clan are all together in one place, Mystic Vale also supports Hot Seat for up to 4 people!

Discover amazing artwork throughout the game. Each card within the game has a subtle hint of animation helping to really bring the game to life.

May your clan cleanse the Valley of Life!

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