Gloomhaven (New)

Name: Gloomhaven (New)
Brand: Cephalofair Games
SKU: 019962194719
Price: 3150 ZAR
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Product Dimensions and Weight

Product Length: 260.0000MM

Product Width: 260.0000MM

Product Height: 80.0000MM

Product Weight: 9500.0000G

R3150

Publisher: Cephalofair Games
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Board Game
Ages: 14+
Play Time: 30 minutes/Player
Players: 1-4

Description

Introduction:

Welcome to Gloomhaven.

Gloomhaven is a game of Euro-inspired tactical combat in a persistent world of shifting motives.

Players will take on the role of a wandering adventurer with their own special set of skills and their own reasons for traveling to this dark corner of the world. Players must work together out of necessity to clear out menacing dungeons and forgotten ruins. In the process, they will enhance their abilities with experience and loot, discover new locations to explore and plunder, and expand an ever-branching story fueled by the decisions they make.

This is a game with a persistent and changing world that is ideally played over many game sessions. After a scenario, players will make decisions on what to do, which will determine how the story continues, kind of like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. Playing through a scenario is a cooperative affair where players will fight against automated monsters using an innovative card system to determine the order of play and what a player does on their turn.

Each turn, a player chooses two cards to play out of their hand. The number on the top card determines their initiative for the round. Each card also has a top and bottom power, and when it is a player’s turn in the initiative order, they determine whether to use the top power of one card and the bottom power of the other, or vice-versa. Players must be careful, though, because over time they will permanently lose cards from their hands. If they take too long to clear a dungeon, they may end up exhausted and be forced to retreat.

Features:

Gloomhaven is a series of tactical combat scenarios that are strung together in a persistent, thematic campaign.

Each scenario is played out through rounds of combat against fully automated enemies. In each round, players will play 2 cards from their hand of ability cards which determine the order in which they act and what abilities they perform. Each card has 2 special actions, and on their turn, players can play the top action of one card and the bottom action of the other.

Card actions are varied and powerful, cutting through the monotony of a basic "move and attack" system. Default actions are available, though, if a player's plans get ruined by an enemy's ability card or even by the actions of their own teammates. Gloomhaven eliminates the alpha player through simultaneous hidden action selection to illustrate the chaos of battle.

There are also no dice in Gloomhaven. Instead, attacks are modified by a player's attack deck. Over time this attack deck will change as a player begins to add and remove cards by completing battle goals and leveling up.

Players gain the experience needed to level up by performing certain actions in their ability card deck. Through leveling up, players will also get access to more powerful, higher level ability cards which they can use to customize their deck.

In midst of battle, players will also need to focus on looting money tokens. These can be used to purchase powerful items in town, where new stock is always being unlocked by player actions.

One way to unlock items is to increase the prosperity of the town, which players can do by completing scenarios and making decisions during events between scenarios. Players will also have to manage their reputation during these events, as reputation will influence the outcome of some events and also affect shop prices.

As players interact with the town and move along the branching story paths of the world, they will always be working towards completing career goals. By meeting certain objectives, a player's character will retire, unlocking a new character class to play with, new events for parties to encounter and additional perks for the achieving player. After retirement, a player will create a new character, possibly from the class that was just unlocked, and continue the adventure!

Gloomhaven Includes (TBC - E&OE):

12+5 Thematic Hero Classes: Each with a detailed 32mm plastic miniature, character mat with wooden trackers and their own deck of around 30 unique ability cards.
30 Double-sided Interlocking Map Tiles: With 70 overlay tiles that accommodate a book of over 70 scenarios across 4 different environments.
45 Different Enemy Types, Including 12 Challenging Bosses: Each with their own set of standees, stat cards and ability card decks.
Over 300 Attack Modifier Cards: Including 5 decks of 20 basic cards, additional class-specific cards and cards added through status effects.
Over 150 tokens: To track status effects, gold, monster damage, experience and special abilities.
6 Wooden Element Tokens & Element Track
200 Item Cards
20+4 Career Goal Cards
20+4 Battle Goal Cards
90 City and Road Event Cards
12+5 Character Sheet Pads
1 Party Sheet Pad
1 Rulebook
An Interactive Map Board with Sticker Sheets: To keep track of which scenarios and achievements have been unlocked.

Specifications:

Publisher: Cephalofair Games
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Board Game
Ages: 14+
Play Time: 30 minutes/Player
Players: 1-4