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[[File:Talisman_full.png|frame|The Talisman with 13 [[charms]].]]
The '''Talisman''' is was to be a new game mechanic in [[Diablo III]]. The Talisman holds held [[charm]]s, which are small, 1x1 sized objects that provide general bonuses to stats and other modifiers. Characters do not begin the game[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-on-this-and-that/] with a Talisman, but receive it for an early (unnamed) [[quest]] reward, much like the [[salvage cube]].
Charms can only be used in the Talisman, unlike Diablo 2's charms, they provide zero benefit while in the inventory.
As of 25.5.2011, the Talisman has been removed from the game[http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=27810240882&sid=3000#2], but may re-appear after the game ships.
[[Bashiok]] listed the reasoning for the removal:
<blue>It was a cool idea at its core, but right now it's just really too basic and doesn't provide anything you can't get from the armor and weapons you're equipping. It requires a lot of the player to invest time and energy into finding and storing yet another type of item just to add player stats. When they do all that, it's just to do something pretty boring that they can already do with awesome things like armor and weapons. Originally the Talisman had a much deeper design, but it proved very ambitious and it got whittled down over the years to a very basic +stat per single square. We like simplicity in our designs, but charms became superfluous in their purpose.
We really like the core idea, but we don't want to stop everything and spend a large amount of time trying to fix the Talisman, although we do have some great ideas already. So, it'll very likely come back in some form or another after the game ships. And be awesome.</blue>
Details about the talisman prior to its removal have been saved for posterity.
==Details==
The Talisman was part of the inventory interface in the demo build at [[BlizzCon 2008]]. It was seen between the two weapon slots in the [[inventory]], and when clicked a bronze, circular disk appeared over the character. There were 9 slots on the talisman, with lines connecting some of them. It had no function in the Blizzcon build, and could not be clicked or activated in any way.