<p>I found the expansion as a whole to be amazingly out-of-balance with the rest of the game. The characters and events seemed only balanced with respect to themselves.</p>

<p>My suggestion is to remove all the characters and event cards. One possible compromise that might be reasonable is to shuffle the events into the deck only once a player has passed into the middle region. Likewise you could allow a player who has died to choose their second character from the Dragon Expansion characters.</p>

<p>This is all presuming you are talking about <a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/714/talisman" rel="nofollow">Talisman 2nd Edition</a> and <a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/1739/talisman-dragons" rel="nofollow">Talisman Dragons</a>.</p>

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I was talking about 4th edition sorry I am really not good at asking questions about board games.

Seems like the answer I expected though
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<p>The reason I ask is we like to play by picking characters at random, so maybe we should pick at random from the Dragon Expansion characters or pull them out.  </p>

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2014-08-01T19:10:20.493Z
For talisman 4th edition
Mark Monforti
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Do you find that with the Dragon Expansion characters more powerful?
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# Do you find that with the Dragon Expansion characters more powerful?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-01)

The reason I ask is we like to play by picking characters at random, so maybe we should pick at random from the Dragon Expansion characters or pull them out.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: For talisman 4th edition  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-01. Score: 0

I found the expansion as a whole to be amazingly out-of-balance with the rest of the game. The characters and events seemed only balanced with respect to themselves.

My suggestion is to remove all the characters and event cards. One possible compromise that might be reasonable is to shuffle the events into the deck only once a player has passed into the middle region. Likewise you could allow a player who has died to choose their second character from the Dragon Expansion characters.

This is all presuming you are talking about [Talisman 2nd Edition](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/714/talisman) and [Talisman Dragons](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/1739/talisman-dragons).

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I was talking about 4th edition sorry I am really not good at asking questions about board games.  Seems like the answer I expected though  

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