In the Gloom card game, you make your eccentric family of misfits suffer the greatest tragedies possible before helping them pass on to the well-deserved respite of death. Just mix the 55 transparent cards included in this set together with your copy of Gloom to add morbid new Modifiers, Events, and Untimely Deaths, and a new family - the artistes of Le Canard Noir, whose creative endeavors always end in disaster. When art lets you down, the Black Duck is there for you. This dingy caf? is home to a motley assortment of washed-up bohemians. Here the tormented painter Rosseau buys drinks for neurotic models and destitute poets, while a troubled actress and sickly courtesan compare notes across the way. Also included are five Residences, which are each placed next to their related family at the start of the game. New cards called Mysteries are also shuffled into the deck before play. A Mystery is the only card that can be placed on a Residence, and can be placed on any Residence as either of your two plays. It gives that Residence?s player a special effect and Pathos points that count toward his final Family Value.