Grave Robbers II: Skippy’s Revenge

About this board game

Grave Robbers II: Skippy’s Revenge is a sci-fi movie-building card game for 2–6 players that plays in about 30 minutes. Released in 2003, it is the fourth game in Z-Man Games’ B-Movie Series.

Players create their own bad sci-fi movie by playing characters, props, and locations. The competition takes a hostile turn when creature cards are played onto rival movies, killing off their characters and disrupting their plans.

Special FX cards add themed ways to influence the action. They can boost attacks, defend against a particular creature type, and provide other sci-fi-inspired effects as players fight to make their movie the most successful.

• Build a movie from characters, props, and locations.
• Play creatures onto opponents’ movies to eliminate characters.
• Use Special FX cards for attacks, defenses, and other actions.
• Score points when “Roll the Credits” is played or the draw deck runs out.

The winner is the player with the most points in their movie when the game ends. The result is a standalone game that can also be mixed with any other title in the B-Movie Series.

The subtitle highlights a fan-favorite twist: Skippy the Wonderdog, a recurring character from the B-Movie Series, appears here as a creature rather than a character. That reversal makes Grave Robbers II: Skippy’s Revenge a distinctive entry in the series’ playful spoof of bad science-fiction movies.