{"id":481,"date":"2008-02-21T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-05-01T14:29:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T18:29:58","slug":"gloom-no-fun-for-the-whole-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Gloom: No Fun for the Whole Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gloom.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Gloom' \/>Gloom is an entertaining (so to speak) card game whose object is to kill off the family in your care by heaping misfortunes upon them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You&#8217;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&#8217; characters with marriages and other happy occasions that pile on positive points. The player with the lowest total Family Value wins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are &#8220;Unhappy Homes&#8221; and &#8220;Unwelcome Guests&#8221; expansion packs available, too.  I suppose you could view the game as an exercise in altruism: After all, you&#8217;re not <EM>hindering<\/EM> your opponents&#8217; families, you&#8217;re <EM>helping<\/EM> them.  By, um, destroying your own family first.  Um.<\/p>\n<p>Extra points for the Goreyesque artwork.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlas-games.com\/gloom\/index.php\">Link<\/a> <I>(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/Howling-Fun-Games\">Haunted Wolf<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloom is an entertaining (so to speak) card game whose object is to kill off the family in your care by heaping misfortunes upon them. You&#8217;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&#8217; characters with marriages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}