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Designed By	Stephen Tassie
Art By	Jason Millet Steve Bryant
Published By	Mario Truant Verlag spareChange productions Z-Man Games
Year Published	2001
# of Players:	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6 players (6 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups (3 voters) [poll]
Category	Card Game Horror Movies/TV/Radio theme Science Fiction
Mechanic
Primary Name	Grave Robbers From Outer Space
Alternate Names	Grabräuber aus dem All Les Pilleurs de Tombes de l'Espace
Expanded By	Show Expansions »
Families	B-Movies

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A fast-paced, humorous look a B-rated science-fiction movies. Players are creating bad horror and sci-fi films using cards that represent characters, props, locations, creatures and special effects. Creatures are used to attack characters. Props and locations can strengthen characters against creatures. Whoever has the strongest characters in play when the credits roll wins the game.

Part of the B-Movie Series of card games.

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Like New	$10.00	6-Mar-2009
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1	General What is the size of the cards?	2009-01-31	jcikal	1
0	Rules Location card, discard after changing locations??	2008-10-29	cdheinrich	3
1	Variants Would beads / chits / tokens help streamline this?	2008-09-09	jda1974	2
3	Variants "Grindhouse" variant	2007-09-17	LongtimeD...	0
9	Reviews Great Start to a Fun Series of Games	2007-09-15	sdonohue	3
2	Sessions B-Movie Premiere!	2007-03-22	Rliyen	1
0	News Online play for Grave Robbers From Outer Space	2007-02-15	BugLaden	0
1	Sessions A super fast session report, with a hidden combo inside!	2006-07-07	monkeyrobot	0
0	Rules Walked Out Early	2005-09-09	Shanahan	1
0	Rules 3rd Rate Actor card...	2005-05-22	WitheredHand	3

	Recommendations

Strong Recommendations
Grave Robbers from Outer Space 2: Skippy's Revenge	Cannibal Pygmies in the Jungle of Doom	Kung Fu Samurai on Giant Robot Island	Bell-Bottomed Badassses on the Mean Streets of Funk
Berserker Halflings from the Dungeon of Dragons

Standard Recommendations
Scurvy Musketeers of the Spanish Main

Weak Recommendations
Haunting House 3, The: A Ghost Story	Bushwhackin' Varmints out of Sergio's Butte	The Haunting House	Give Me the Brain!
Plague & Pestilence	Haunting House 2, The: The Second Story	Nuclear War	Car Wars: The Card Game
Ben Hurt	Lord of the Fries	Creatures & Cultists	The Testimony of Jacob Hollow
Ebola Monkey Hunt	Monster Mayhem	Hidden Conflict	Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond

Very Weak Recommendations
Gloom	Monsters Menace America	Chez Geek	Kill Doctor Lucky
When Darkness Comes	Fluxx	Zombies!!!

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Grave Robbers FOS UDEck liner

The box for this game fell apart and I had a ton of those great UDEck boxes from Upper Deck. So I put this together, it's a replacement wrap. Print on legal paper, trim and you're done.

cold_fuzion

2009-06-15

GROS_special_rules_summary_v2.doc

All the Special Rules for Grave Robbers From Outer Space through the Bushwackin' Varmints expansion on one page for use during play with multiple expansions.

Rigel

2006-10-04

Grave Robbers from the Outer Space (spanish).pdf

Spanish translation in PDF format

randast

2006-09-10

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1010	That is illogical captain! - Logical inconsistencies in otherwise fine games	2007-01-10
361	Your Favorite Rule	2005-09-23
357	Just Us Two, A Couple Close Gamers Weigh In... Our experiences with 2-player games (couples: husband versus wife)	2006-11-26
354	PYUREDEADBRILLIANT - The Distilled Wit, Wisdom, Ramblings and Musings of a CoffinDodging Sexygenarian.	2009-05-30
233	Game Designers Who Are BGG'ers	2007-01-26
195	A Simpsons Quote for Every Game	2006-07-20
189	If Hobby Games Were Named By the People Who Name Mass Market Games...	2008-12-02
156	The Definitive Horror Game Geeklist	2006-05-08
123	I paid to see this? The worst films you've seen at the cinema.	2009-01-08
117	One Degree of Separation: A Song Name Game for GEEKGOLD...Congratulations Ernie Lai (laiernie)!!!	2007-03-25

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User Rank:	3090
Num Ratings:	537
Average Rating:	5.79
Standard Deviation:	1.64
Num Views:	22654
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Avg. Game Weight:	1.5
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Personal Comments:	217
Users Owning:	669
Users Wanting:	9
Users Trading:	43
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the Grave Robbers website from Z-Man Games, the publisher	http://www.shadowfist.com/html/grave_robbers/grave...	2001-11-02
French review on Jeux2Rody.com	http://www.jeux2rody.com/jeux/pilleursdetombes.htm...	2002-10-23
Game review a La Tana dei Gobin	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2004-04-03
BGG Link: Cannibal Pygmies in the Jungle of Doom	http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3947	2004-04-24
BGG CrossLink: Kung Fu Samurai on Giant Robot Island	http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/6583	2004-04-24
BGG CrossLink: Grave Robbers from Outer Space 2: Skippy's Revenge	http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/6584	2004-04-24
BGG Link: Bell-bottomed Badassses on the Mean Streets of Funk	http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/13493	2005-05-03
GamerDad Unplugged review by Matt Carlson	http://www.gamerdad.com/detail.cfm?itemID=2438	2005-07-27
Official Rules (English) (pdf)	http://www.zmangames.com/cardgames/files/Bmovies/G...	2009-02-25
Official FAQ (.doc)	http://www.zmangames.com/cardgames/files/Bmovies/G...	2009-02-25

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