One game night not so long ago my sister-in-law finally talked me and my husband into driving the half hour to their apartment. I had never been into any game that took more instruction that what you could pick up from a commercial. There sat the gamers, they had all played more games than I knew existed and it was a little unnerving. They started to persuade me into playing a game...."it will be easy, even you can do it, just try it."
I sat down and tried to listen to the rules. My brother-in-law set up the scenario: We are in a deep dark dungeon, we are looking for trouble and looking for treasure. We start the game and I LOVE IT. I am keeping up with the hardcore gamers and laughing so hard I can barely see my cards through the tears. I won my first game, I was hooked. We have been back every weekend for months! My recommendation for everyone is to try some Munchkin, you will like it.
How Does It Work?
Here's the rundown. The rules start out by saying "Munchkin is a tasteless parody game which brings you to the essence of the dungeon-crawling experience...without all that messy roleplaying!" I really couldn't put it better myself.
With the basic Munchkin pack you get 168 hilarious cards and a six sided die. There are two decks: the door deck and the treasure deck. You start out with two of each card. Simple. The door cards consist of monsters, classes, races, curses and ect. The treasure deck consists of GUAL (go up a level) cards, weapons, and weapon enhancers and monster enhancers.
Each turn you open a door (by drawing a door card) and see if you encounter a monster or get a curse. If you draw something other than a monster or curse you can look for trouble and draw another door. If you get a monster kill it and take it's treasure, if you can't kill it bad stuff will happen. Don't believe me? It says so on the card.
Level 1 Crabs. Cannot be outrun. Bad Stuff: Discard the armor and all items worn below the waist.
Not that bad? What if your best item happens to be the Pantyhose Of Giant Strength? With +3 bonus that might just make or break your next battle.
It might sound confusing but once you see a game in action you realize the only hard part is taking the ridicule from your friends when you get you have a sex change and have a chicken on your head.
You really want to play? Try it out, then go out and get an expansion or seven. I recommend De-Ranged, how else will you get to be a Gnome Ranger?
Check out Munchkin online at http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/game/
1 comments:
you are addicted. I may have to play it sometime.
Post a Comment