Enter a prehistoric world with cave-boy Glog in this innovative storybook designed to boost reader confidence Cave-boy Glog is accidentally left behind when his tribe move to new hunting grounds
- & things look bleak Glog will have to do the best he can to fend for himself until they come to find him Along the way he encounters a ferocious wolf & gathers some new friends He draws them on the cave wall for company but it's not the same as his own tribe Will Glog's family come back for him?
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Changes to the 2nd Edition Here is a run down on what is new in the 2nd edition release Backwards compatibility is completely maintained between editions You can use 2nd Edition with your original edition core game & vice versa The 2nd Edition core game has a sturdy new telescoping box while 2nd edition expansions have double width tuckboxes Timing icons in the style of Cthulhu Gloom & Unquiet Dead are incorporated throughout the 2nd Edition Rules cards & icon reminder cards are included in each 2nd Edition for easy reference The card list & the effect texts of individual cards have been polished for a better play experience For example complex cards like " Body Theif" & cards with delayed effects have been removed Three Modifiers have been turned into Transformations in Unwelcome Guests 2nd Edition Residences & Mysteries have been reworked in the 2nd Edition so that you can no longer end up with unusable cards in your hand All the story icons & few family icons in the 2nd edition have been redrawn by artist Todd Remick Gloom 2nd Edition uses the discard rule from Cthulhu Gloom Death cards in the 2nd edition have a central art piece as Cthulhu Gloom does as well as a blank story icon at the top right Characters no longer flip upon death Event cards in the 2nd Edition have a center illustration & a blank icon in the top right spot to give them the silhouette as a Death Card Guests in the 2nd Edition have reminder text in the family icon spot as Cthulhu Gloom does Pathos Points are now called Self-Worth Points to avoid unnecessary proliferation of game terms A number of mechanical changes have been made in the rule sheet For example timing icons symbols on Event cards & the new discard rule have been accounted for The world of Gloom is a sad & benighted place The sky is gray the tea is cold & a new tragedy lies around every corner Debt disease heartache & packs of rabid flesh-eating mice—just when it seems like things can&t get any worse they do But some say that one&s reward in the afterlife is based on the misery endured in life If so there may yet be hope—if not in this world then in the peace that lies beyond In the Gloom card game you assume control of the fate of an eccentric family of misfits & misanthropes The goal of the game is sad but simple you want your characters to suffer the greatest tragedies possible before passing on to the well-deserved respite of death You&ll play horrible mishaps like Pursued by Poodles or Mocked by Midgets on your own characters to lower their Self-Worth scores while trying to cheer your opponents& characters with marriages & other happy occasions that pile on positive points The player with the lowest total Family value wins Printed on transparent plastic cards Gloom features an innovative design by noted RPG author Keith Baker Multiple modifier cards can be played on top of the same character card; since the cards are transparent elements from previously played modifier cards either show through or are obscured by those played above them You&ll immediately & easily know the worth of every character no matter how many modifiers they have You&ve got to see (through) this game to believe it! Each of the three expansions for Gloom adds one more player thus with all three expansions this should be playable with seven players ...

In the Gloom card game you make your eccentric family of misfits suffer the greatest tragedies possible before helping them pass on to the well-deserved respite of death Just mix the 55 transparent cards in this set together with your copy of Gloom to add morbid new Modifiers Events & Untimely Deaths Unquiet Dead also introduces Stories Undead & Timing Symbols The families of Gloom have many skeletons in their closets In Unquiet Dead the spooks come out to play Mad scientists can reanimate relatives or invent invisibility Vampires & shapeshifters can terrorize the townsfolk & go mad in the moonlight Will you give up the ghost or will you hold onto it? ...

In space what’s even the point of screaming? A st&-alone entry point to the evergreen Gloom game line Make your rag-tag band miserable… & then kill them Fight your father meddle with a monolith & be troubled by tribbles while looking forward to the sure (and mercifully quick!) death of being nuked from orbit! Components Double tuck box containing 110 transparent poker-sized playing cards 2–4 players 60 minutes ages 13 ...

Encounters means that you can add more cards to your encounter & reward decks to enhance the variety & narratives of your adventures in the world of Kilforth
- simply shuffle the extra content into your game & you are ready to go 1-4 Players Playing time 2-3 hours Ages 13
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The land of Kilforth i&115; a perilou&115; domain filled with nefariou&115; mon&115;ter&115; my&115;teriou&115; &83;tranger&115; & treacherou&115; Location&115; & dominated at it&115; centre by The &83;prawl a huge city where intrepid Heroe&115; begin their journey to fame & fortune Throughout the land variou&115; faction&115; vie for power over each other &115;uch a&115; the &115;uppo&115;edly noble Order of the Ro&115;e or the terrifying Doom Guard & pre&115;iding over the world out&115;ide Kilforth i&115; the ever-pre&115;ent Overlord Ma&115;klaw Over the coming month a deadly Gloom will de&115;cend upon Kilforthwhich the Heroe&115; mu&115;t Battle through to prove their worth defeat an Ancient evil & &115;ave the land from darkne&115;&115; Gloom of Kilforth i&115; a card game of high fanta&115;y with a Gothic edge playable in 1-3 hour&115; where 1-4 player&115; working individually or together mu&115;t take their humble adventurer&115; on a journey through a dark world of magic & peril They will vi&115;it &115;trange place&115; &115;tranger people & overcome powerful enemie&115; in their mi&115;&115;ion to di&115;cover my&115;teriou&115; artefact&115; & my&115;tical &83;pell&115; Player&115; follow their Hero&8217;&115; tale from mode&115;t beginning&115; through an epic &115;tory to an exciting climactic battle for the fate of the world Gloom of Kilforth take&115; about 45 minute&115; per player to play Player&115; 1-4 Playing time 60-180 min&115; Age&115; 13 ...

This is a small set of duplicate cards but with original artwork that was either a bit too terrifying or a bit too racy for a PG rating These are duplicates of existing cards but with slightly different art
- they are not required for play Either replace existing copies with them or just shuffle them into your game along with their existing counterparts
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From the frozen lands of the Snark to the torrid intrigues of the Bannisters there is one truth that echoes through the Umpteen Kingdoms Gloom is coming Gloom of Thrones a standalone card game spreads the misery & suffering of Gloom to the ill-fated land of dead monarchs dead knights dead brothers dead sisters dead heirs dead grandmothers dead chambermaids & almost-dead bastards Wrest control of a noble family guide them through lives of satirically-riddled sadism & deliver them to their ultimate fate Which is of course more death Printed on transparent plastic cards Gloom of Thrones allows multiple cards to be played on top of the same character determining their ultimate fate while still allowing you to see straight through their machinations just like Lil' Finger advisor to his seventeenth whoops! eighteenth! king andor queen As your characters seek a moment of respite on the Porcelain Throne your goal is to plague them with horrible mishaps like being Seduced by a Sibling or Tumbled from a Tower while filling the lives of the other noble families with happy events & family reunions that will raise their Self-Worth score The player with the lowest-scoring most tragedy-afflicted family wins! When you aim for the Porcelain Throne you'd best not miss Players 2-5 Playing time 30-60 mins Ages 14 ...

Designed by award winning artist & sculptor Jim Shore for the Disney Traditions brand This Eeyore waterball is made from resin & it has miniature confetti inside Unique variations should be expected as this product is hand painted Packed in a branded gift box Not a toy or children's product Intended for adults only ...

In the Gloom card game you make your eccentric family of misfits suffer the greatest tragedies possible before helping them pass on to the well-deserved respite of death Just mix the 55 transparent cards in this set together with your copy of Gloom to add morbid new Modifiers Events & Untimely Deaths & a new family of intrepid explorers who&ve faced misfortune across the globe These days Colonel Bumpersnoot is really more of a bargain hunter while Lady Bumpersnoot struggles with high society -- but she always loves to have guests for dinner Their Towering Treehouse is included as a Residence card to use with the Unhappy Homes expansion Unfortunate Expeditions introduces Expeditions into the game Set the new Expedition cards to one side When you play a Modifier or Untimely Death with an Expedition symbol resolve the immediate effects of the card then place that Expedition in the center of the table Only one Expedition can be in play at a time so it replaces the current Expedition if there is one An Expedition&s rules affect all players as long as it&s in play Some cards also have special effects that occur if a particular Expedition is already in play when they&re played Adds 1 player 55 transparent cards in a tuckbox ...