Talisman of Death

Infobox Fighting Fantasy book 2covers


caption1=The original cover of "Talisman of Death" illustrated by Peter Andrew Jones


caption2=The Wizard cover of "Talisman of Death" illustrated by Martin McKenna
location=Orb
references=400
authors=Jamie Thomson &
Mark Smith
illustrator=Bob Harvey
coverillustrator=Peter Andrew Jones
year=1984
number=11
ISBN=ISBN 0-14-031859-3
wcoverillustrator=Martin McKenna
wyear=2006
wnumber=24
wISBN=ISBN 1-84046-566-2

"Talisman of Death" is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Jamie Thomson and Mark Smith, illustrated by Bob Harvey and originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2006. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 11th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-031859-3) and 24th in the modern Wizard series (ISBN 1-84046-566-2).

tory

Unlike most other Fighting Fantasy books, the reader is in fact an ordinary person from Earth, drawn into the world of Orb by the will of the gods. In this book the player is given the task of protecting the Talisman of Death. The player must find a way of returning to their own world with the Talisman, thus depriving the god Death of the Talisman forever (the publisher's blurb is actually an inaccurate description of the plot, in that the player cannot destroy the Talisman).

etting

Talisman of Death is the only Fighting Fantasy gamebook set in the fantasy world of Orb, a creation of Thomson and Smith, although this world is also used as a setting for their "Way of the Tiger" series of gamebooks. Characters that appear in Talisman of Death, such as Tyutchev, Cassandra, and Thaum also appear in the "Way of the Tiger" series. Also, Bob Harvey reprises his role as the illustrator of the series.

ee also

*Fighting Fantasy
*List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks

References

* cite web
title=Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks on gamebooks.org
url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=11
* cite web
title=Talisman of Death on gamebooks.org
url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=48
* cite web
title=Talisman of Death on the Internet Archive record of the old fightingfantasy.com site
url=http://web.archive.org/web/20051127132124/www.fightingfantasy.com/ffb11.htmOfficial sites:
* cite web
title=Talisman of Death on the official Fighting Fantasy website
url=http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/ff24.htm
* cite web
title=Talisman of Death on the Wizard Books website
url=http://www.iconbooks.co.uk/wizard/wbook.cfm?isbn=1-84046-566-2Magazines:
* cite journal
year = 1985
month = June
title = Open Box
journal = White Dwarf
issue = 66
pages = 6–7