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 travelling 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.

Key Features:

• Heldenkomplex:
  Spieler rekrutieren und trainieren Kommandoeinheiten, Ninjas, Konstrukteure und andere Außenseiter, um sich Horden von Monstern entgegenzustellen. Gefährliche Aufträge erfordern knallharte Helden, die gemeinsam nach und nach die Erde zurückerobern.
• Bauen und Erobern:
  Das revolutionäre Aufbausystem erlaubt es Spielern, während der tobenden Schlachten außergewöhnliche Befestigungsanlagen zu bauen. Monster können in tödliche Fallen gelockt werden, die aus giftigen Pfeilen, Metall-Speeren und Selbstschussanlagen bestehen. Doch die Feinde nutzen jeden Fehler in der Planung gnadenlos aus!
• Handwerks-Meister:
  Spieler sammeln Ressourcen, um verrückte Waffen wie zusammengeschraubte Gewehre, hydraulische Bergbau-Äxte und Katapulte zu bauen, die Monstern das fürchten – und fliegen - lehren. Je weiter der Fähigkeiten-Baum der Helden ausgebaut ist, desto wahnwitzigere Konstruktionen stehen ihnen zur Verfügung.
• Neue Freunde:
  Dank des nahtlosen Drop-On-Drop-Out Multiplayer-Modus und den prozeduralen Spielwelten eignet sich Fortnite für Revolverhelden, Konstrukteure, Entdecker und Ninjas gleichermaßen.

• 17 different monster cards
  
• 8 character cards
  
• 12 modular game board tiles
  
• 332 cards
  
• 14 dice
  
• 70 tokens
  
• 72 highly detailed plastic miniatures