Grave Robbers from Outer Space

Grave Robbers from Outer Space (GROS) is a card game designed by Stephen Tassie and published out by Z-Man Games. GROS parodies movies and movie clichés, especially those from science fiction and horror movies. It is played with a specially designed 120 card deck.

The idea of the game is to create a movie (made up of a location and characters, and having your characters holding props). Each of these cards has a "defense strength" (DS) between +10 and -15. The sum of the values on your cards is the defense of your movie. The goal is to have the strongest movie (i.e. the one with the highest defense) when either there are no cards left to draw, or one of two cards with the words "Roll The Credits" is played.

Each card contains the following information:

Each card is in one of five colors:

The two "Roll The Credits" cards are all black with the words in large red letters in the center.

At the beginning of the game, six cards are drawn at random from the deck. From the title words, which appear at the bottom of the card, you create a title for the game. At the end of the game, each player receives five bonus points for each word that appears both in their movie and in the game title. Many players choose not to play with this rule, and skip this phase.

You are dealt a hand of six cards. If you have no characters in your initial hand, you return your hand to the draw pile and draw a fresh hand, continuing to do so until you have at least one character in your hand.

You then put out your characters. Once all players have put out their characters, play begins.

Any time any card is played, its quote is read, otherwise it is not in play.

On your turn, you fill your hand to six cards. You may then play as many cards as you like, with three restrictions:

You may take a prop from one character and give it to a second character, this counting as the prop that the second character is given this turn.

You are allowed to change not only your own location, but any other player's location.

The Defense Strength (DS) of your movie is equal to the sum of the point value of your location, your characters, their props and any special rules that will add to these point values. For example, certain special effect cards give bonuses to a character or to a prop, and certain cards affect other cards. For example, the Nymphomaniac Cheerleader gives a bonus of +1 to all characters with the trait Male in the same movie.

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