Talisman: Digital Edition Gets More Character Options, Charity Support
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In addition to releasing Ninja and Pirate characters in January's free update to Talisman: Digital Edition, the crew at Nomad Games has teamed up with the honorable SpecialEffect to create yet another as-of-yet unannounced character for the board-game-to-RPG. This third character will end up costing you some money, but it's for a great cause:
A new character for Talisman Digital Edition will be immortalised with help from SpecialEffect, the charity that helps people with physical disabilities to enjoy gaming. The proceeds of this new character will go to SpecialEffect, so more people with disabilities can be supported to reap the rewards of gaming.
A collaboration between Nomad Games and SpecialEffect will bring Talisman to people with disabilities. Not only will the game be provided to people that SpecialEffect supports, Nomad Games are asking those same people to get involved and design a character for the game.
The first step is to come up with some character ideas, and for the last few weeks Talisman Digital Edition fans have been submitting ideas for a new Talisman character. There has been a phenomenal response with over 200 entries, and it's been a very difficult job to whittle them down to a shortlist of 6!
This shortlist will be going out for a public vote on the Nomad Games web site in January, where people will have a week to vote for their favourite idea. When the character has been chosen, SpecialEffect gamers will create an artwork design for the new character. This will then be submitted to Nomad Games to convert into a new digital Character Card, which will go on sale over the coming weeks.
(When friends introduced Nomad Games to the work of SpecialEffect we were hugely impressed and realized that, as a games maker and publisher, we should lend our support. In an exceptional way, SpecialEffect put gamers with physical disabilities on a level playing field with every other gamer.), said Don Whiteford, MD at Nomad Games Limited.
