The merchant: eight item cards, priced in gold, over his stall

About this game

Developer: Flaming Fowl Studios, Saber Interactive · Publisher: Twin Sails Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Trade / Economy

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What to study

Shopping in Gloomhaven is reading cards, the same card object the game uses for attacks and equipment, dealt out in front of the man selling them. Because every card prints its full rules text, its slot icon and its price in the same positions, the shop needs no cart, no basket and no detail page: eight goods can be compared at a glance, and the comparison is tactical, not economic (10 gold for Hide Armor against 30 for the Eagle-Eye Goggles matters less than Advantage 'on the entire Attack action' against a shield that works once). The prices also quietly set the campaign's scale, these 10-to-30-gold goods are the same shop the Spellweaver visits carrying 9,870 gold, so the screen is a record of early-game scarcity preserved in a rich party's trailer. The merchant's grin behind the cards is the oldest shop interface there is: a person, and their wares spread on the counter. Frame at about 2:02 in the Gloomhaven - Gameplay Trailer (Steam; manual extraction, the scene-change pass missed the shop entirely; it sits inside a held montage shot).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

card-grid price-list character-presenter

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Portrait Slots Badge

Screen inventory

• the shop is eight full item cards in two rows of four, laid over the merchant himself, a smiling, open-handed trader in a green tunic standing in his market tent, used as the shop's living backdrop rather than reduced to a portrait in a corner
• top row: Poison Dagger 20 ('During your melee attack, add POISON to a single attack'), Piercing Bow 30 ('During your ranged attack, ignore all Shield values for the entire Attack action'), Heater Shield 20 ('When damaged by an attack, gain Shield 1 for the attack'), Leather Armor 20 ('The next two times you are attacked, the attacker gains Disadvantage on the attack')
• bottom row: Hide Armor 10, Cloak of Invisibility 20 ('During your turn, gain INVISIBLE'), Iron Helmet 10 ('When attacked, consider any x2 attack modifier card the enemy draws to be a +0 instead'), Eagle-Eye Goggles 30 ('During your attack, gain Advantage on the entire Attack action')
• every card shares one anatomy: name, a slot icon in a black circle (hand, fist, helm, body), the price in gold coins at top-right, item art, and the rules text, and the rows are colour-coded, deep red for hand items, blue-grey for armour
• small icons in each card's bottom-right corner mark its use and loss state, and the armour cards add an infinity-and-starburst strip counting their uses, the shop's whole stock can be compared without opening a single card

Top 3 colors

#3e3d39 22%#22231b 20%#2a291e 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Flaming Fowl Studios, Saber Interactive / Twin Sails Interactive, Gloomhaven screenshot: Gloomhaven - Gameplay Trailer (Steam), Twin Sails Interactive, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Twin Sails Interactive.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: manual extraction manual-merchant-122.png @ ~122s in the Gloomhaven - Gameplay Trailer, MD5 82abdb30c16611a0b4a224e1a40f2514, from the pipeline download (182,718,036 B, MD5 47da8cdd73706034495e7ca45444562d; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); all eight item cards legible with names, prices (20 / 30 / 20 / 20 / 10 / 20 / 10 / 30) and full rules text, the merchant figure and market tent behind them; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-25); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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