TALISMAN
Ranking: Four stars
Review
Everything about this game is wonderful except for the ending. There are plenty of cool items to collect, monsters and beasties to battle, and characters to encounter. The paranoia level is low, and the choices are relatively simple (like deciding whether to move left or right around the board). The first few times you play the game, you have to debate certain ambiguous rules (like the prophetess's ability to always have a spell), and the powers are definitely unbalanced, but the lack of balance isn't a problem; the game is still fun. However, we tend not to enter the endgame until we are absolutely assured of making it to the Crown of Command, which makes the ending anticlimactic.