Woodlands is an excellent expansion.

[Genocide Pete]

Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed playing this expansion last night. The light/dark fate mechanic is fun, many of the new cards are interesting and synergistic, and the new treant character I used had a lot of cool abilities.

The only downside was the increased turn time caused by the introduction of dark fate, but good times aside from that.

[Driss]

I despise dark fate. I am having a hard time enjoying the game anymore. There is already a lot of luck in Talisman but dark fate removes what little mitigation we had.

[Sojiro]

That's precisely why there is a house rule that lets you turn that off. By making Dark Fate work like Light Fate, you keep the old system for Fate, the tokens only showing your allegiance to Oberon or Titannia.

I personally think that the Woodland expansion is great and makes the game much more fun. It's by far the most bug infested I've ever seen, though. Especially with Destinies, which isn't surprising given how they mess with the core mechanics of the game.

[Simon]

I love the dark fate mechanic and I'm enjoying the expansion; the best since Blood Moon for me. There's a lot to learn but I don't feel like it takes over the game the way Dragon does. Dark fate is still a rare commodiy; you have to be selective in its use and it doesn't guarantee you a positive outcome.

It doesn't seem like the most profitable region, unless you can pick Lucky Coin to grant yourself immunity from dark fate perhaps. So much can go wrong. I don't know if I'd want to spend much time in there during a competitive game.

[shredd1]

Originally posted by Meretrix:

I despise dark fate. I am having a hard time enjoying the game anymore. There is already a lot of luck in Talisman but dark fate removes what little mitigation we had.

I did the same as Sojiro and it solves that problem, however it has an unusual effect on your fatebound effect in the Woodlands. ie I had 2 light fate 0 dark but the AI saw me as unbound

[Sojiro]

I never said I actually used that house rules. Most of the time, I leave Dark Fate to work normally. It's when I want to play faster that I activate it.

Also, this houserule should have no influence whatsoever on your bound status. If you use Bound By Alignement, on the other hand, a Neutral character will be Unbound regardless of how their Fate tokens are flipped.

[Marik]

Woodland is definitely talisman's Brave New World expansion

[shredd1]

Originally posted by Sojiro:

I never said I actually used that house rules. Most of the time, I leave Dark Fate to work normally. It's when I want to play faster that I activate it.

Also, this houserule should have no influence whatsoever on your bound status. If you use Bound By Alignement, on the other hand, a Neutral character will be Unbound regardless of how their Fate tokens are flipped.

Thanks for clearing that up, I do have Bound by Alignment chosen, Ill change that next game.

[Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|]

The expansion is top, the bugfest is not top.

[Sojiro]

So many bugs. It's nuts. Probably because it's the woodlands, that's the kind of place where you'd find plenty of bugs and nuts...

[Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|]

Originally posted by Sojiro:

So many bugs. It's nuts. Probably because it's the woodlands, that's the kind of place where you'd find plenty of bugs and nuts...

The original plan was to release Woodlands in Juli and not Juni, so the DLC was rushed, it would be better if the beta wouldn`t have stopped so fast.

[Don Julio]

Originally posted by Gilga ™:

The expansion is top, the bugfest is not top.

This.

[Crash [LV]]

It doesn't seem like the most profitable region

Path bonuses, destinies, ton of awesome items (Cloak that grants immunity to events/strangers, coin that grants immunity to dark fate, destiny sword, etc. Even some of the cursed cards are good (the witch house that gives you fixed 5 move, the fae follower that gives you bonuses at the cost of 1 live per stat increase etc).
There are basically just two sideboards to go at the start of game - City (to buy a stiletto) or Woodlands (to at least use good path bonuses and/or get a destiny).

[Marcin Raelian]

Personally likes mechanic of dark fate because buff some weaker characters like priest but i would like have it at game without the Woodland Region. This is at possible table top but not at digital ver.

[sircrimsonfox]

USing the Woodland endings caused me to win in 2 turns lol

[krantkiller]

Which ending did you win in 2 turns?