Gentlegamer said:

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Yes, I use photoshop. To print, I put the file, centered, on a word file, on page one, and a back also centered on page 2 (the back must have exactly the same size). Then I print recto-verso. Usually, I print new characters 2 by 2, on a specific paper (200g/m2). Cut, plastify if possible, and then let's play.

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I like your ideas, but you're making characters who are way too powerful starting out, with 6+ Strength in Battle to start the game, as well as items from the Purchase deck. The Purchase deck will nearly be out of Weapons and Armour before the game starts!

Gentlegamer said:

Yep, maybe. I used to play that game a hundred times when I was young, but I may have lost my experience over time and the characters may be sometimes unbalanced.  To be honest, my main purpose was to make characters I would love to play and have fun making them.

the samurai is too powerfull for me because, in fight, you can lose aa fate to reroll, another to add+1 and another to reroll in ths second round !

if you succed in losing life you are very good ! may be you can refight with +1 but lose one life, it's the fight for honour !

could you send us the blank sheet for character ?

in another way, if all the people have powerfull character the game is equivalent. there are allready more powerfull character !

The Ninja should be allowed followers but lose assassination ability when having a follower

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latest versions (including new pic for the ninja)

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Have you considered formatting some standees as well? Other than as mentioned, the King should not be a character for players... and its abilities also seem a bit much, even if architypally appropriate.

In the same venue, if you're going to have a King... you might as well have a Black Knight.

Love your character ideas sir especially black paladin and barbarian.Good work.

Also, you should reconsider publicly distributing character cards with art stolen from professional artists. There are both national and international laws that cover this. You are not only endangering yourself but anyone else who redistributes this material. There are plenty of options for purchasing or finding freely usable and/or public domain images.

You used several objects that cannot be stolen, or possibly sold.

That is probably too much grey area, and sounds like the characters were made in defence of the thief.

Can these items be "beguiled"?

What about Alchemy? or the spell that steals a object? (cant remember what it is called)

When creating characters, I would avoid using specific cards for special abilites. like not affected by Raiders, or cant have the Maiden. Just becasue if that card is on the bottom of the deck, it is kind of a dud abillity. 

Just squeeze out a bit more of that creative juice on a few of those, and they will be rather nice.

and i had, if you become a toad, without your capacites, you lose your weapon and when you become a character, you haven't your weapon or armor !

The art work is nice but the abilities are very ininspirering, Cant you come up whit unique abilities?

If you are going to design new charachters a good idea could be imagining them in the realm of talisman (walking breathing). Take the King, what would happen if the king walked the lands himself, how would others react? Then make rules that reflect that.

I would make the king like this:

Aligment: neutral

str: 2 wis: 4  fate: 3 gold:3

main ability:

As the King you have the ability to command, If you land on a player you may command them. If you choose to do so you controll their next turn unless they give you 1 gold.

Secondary ability:

If you are good aligment all enemies bow before if you spend one fate,  you may evade them and gain experience.

If you are Evil you may bribe all enemies for 1gold, evade the bribed enemy and gain experience.

misc ability:

You may always heal for free at the castle

But I do think that "king" is more suitible as an advanced character, something you can become, just like the high mage or sheriff in Talisman City expansion

If the king were walking about like any other adventurer, without and entrouage, I'd simply whack him as soon as possible and take the "Crown" so to speak. Aside for that, if he was killed off, who's running the land?   No, the King as an adventurer simply wouldn't happen.