Post by mikeydanuke on Jul 5, 2008 11:22:27 GMT -5
Have you ever thought that life is going too good, you are happy, content, life is good...maybe you need a little despair and misery in your life. Allow me to recommend Gloom.
Gloom is a card game where you goal is to make your "Family" as miserable as possible (The more "Pathos" points you can rack up on a character the higher your score) before they meet untimely deaths and pass away. Yes, your goal in this game is to kill your own characters!
You can also be nice to your opponents by playing cards that will cheer them up an make them happy, such as being blessed by a clergyman or having a happy marriage. Happy characters cannot be killed. You have to be miserable to be worth points, and only dead characters are worth points!
Each card has brief description of its effect, and part of the fun is "describing" what has happened. In our first game, my great-nephews description of how he found his brain lying around in a darkened corridor jut blew everybody away. He's only 8. It was fantastic.
Gloom is published by Atlas Games (www.atlas-games.com). It sells for about $25.00 USA and is set up for 4 (or less) players. There are expansions out.
I also recommend playing with people of even tempers and dispositions, he he, my current deck is now damaged just because my niece slammed the cards she was holding onto the table and actually damaged one. All because I felt sorry for her only having one character left and so brought one of her "dead" family back to life. There is just no pleasing some people.
"Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I'm gonna eat some worms..."
MDN
PS: I came in 3rd on our first game, my niece was second, and my 8 year old Grand nephew was 1st! His score beat his mother's and my score combined!
Gloom is a card game where you goal is to make your "Family" as miserable as possible (The more "Pathos" points you can rack up on a character the higher your score) before they meet untimely deaths and pass away. Yes, your goal in this game is to kill your own characters!
You can also be nice to your opponents by playing cards that will cheer them up an make them happy, such as being blessed by a clergyman or having a happy marriage. Happy characters cannot be killed. You have to be miserable to be worth points, and only dead characters are worth points!
Each card has brief description of its effect, and part of the fun is "describing" what has happened. In our first game, my great-nephews description of how he found his brain lying around in a darkened corridor jut blew everybody away. He's only 8. It was fantastic.
Gloom is published by Atlas Games (www.atlas-games.com). It sells for about $25.00 USA and is set up for 4 (or less) players. There are expansions out.
I also recommend playing with people of even tempers and dispositions, he he, my current deck is now damaged just because my niece slammed the cards she was holding onto the table and actually damaged one. All because I felt sorry for her only having one character left and so brought one of her "dead" family back to life. There is just no pleasing some people.
"Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I'm gonna eat some worms..."
MDN
PS: I came in 3rd on our first game, my niece was second, and my 8 year old Grand nephew was 1st! His score beat his mother's and my score combined!