Gloomhaven is an award-winning, sprawling cooperative board game that includes everything 1 to 4 players need for a GM-less playing experience.
Players take on the role of a group of mercenaries, each with their own unique abilities and evolving stories, working together to complete a long-form campaign. Over 90 sessions are built into this base game that includes everything you need, including player miniature figures and enemy standees, map tiles, story book, rulebook, and organizational boxes and trays.
The story of this epic game begins when your mercenary party is approached by a red-cloaked (and red-tailed) merchant Jekserah, who offers you payment to deal with some bandits who are causing trouble for caravans of goods entering the city of Gloomhaven. What sounds innocuous enough will start you on a journey throughout not only Gloomhaven, but the surrounding world – from the Dagger Forest, to the Copperneck Mountains, to the Lingering Swamp, to the Misty Sea. The story will play out through a branching narrative, where decisions you make will impact the campaign in meaningful (and permanent) ways. Your party will earn (or lose) reputation among three unique factions vying for power in the city. Who you decide to associate yourself with will impact how the story unfolds.
The heart of the game plays out scenario-by-scenario – the game boasts 101 of them, all unique. Each scenario will feature an objective (I.E kill all the enemies, escape, protect somebody for a certain amount of rounds, etc) and a set of enemies for you to encounter, each with their own unique deck of ability cards telling you what they will do each round. Depending on what mercenary you’ve selected to play, you will start each scenario with a hand of 8 to 12 cards, each having two different, unique actions on them – one on the top half of the card and the other on the bottom. Each round, you’ll pick two cards to play, and when your turn comes around (the cards also determine the order everyone goes), you’ll play the top action of one card and the bottom action of the other. This is a system that is simple to understand, but has loads of depth as you start to look at all the options you have available to you.
CONTENTS
- Rulebook
- Scenario book
- Town records book
- 3x Sealed Envelopes
- Map board
- 4x Sticker sheets
- 185 tiles
- Element infusion board
- Round tracker
- 6x Wooden element discs
- 18x Character miniatures
- 17x Character packs
- 457x Attack modifier cards
- 4x HP/XP dials
- 4x Player reference cards
- Party tracking pad
- 236x Monster standees
- 232x Monster ability cards
- 47x Monster stat sheets
- 67x Monster stat sleeves
- 24x plastic standees