Monday, September 20, 2004
Munchkins...
This is a game that is newly recommended to me by Matthew Hoo of M1/04. This guy, I tell you, is a so, so, so dedeicated gamer. He spends so much money and time on games that is really fun. Really. Thanks to him, I'm hooked on all these games and neglecting my studies. Hahahaha...
The latest fad he introduced into my busy life is Munchkin, a really hilarious card game. What card game?! some of you guys asked. Things that enters the head is like Pokemon Trading Card Game, Lord of the Rings TCG, Harry Potter... but no, no, NO!
Munchkin is something like this. Imagine Dungeon and Dragons Board Game. For those who doesn't know D&D, you guys can just fall down and die. Okok, D&D is an RPG games with dices of many many sides. You have a board, a few characters, and their level ups. Then you proceed to go through the dungeon, flipping the dices to see which room you enter and what monsters you fight. You can add bonuses to your characters by equiping weapons and armors, and you can also use spells.
Lemme give you the simplest example:
You open the door and a Level 1 monster jumps out. It has 10 Health Point(HP). To win the battle, you have to kill it. What do you have? You have a Level 7 Paladin (Atk: 80, Def: 60), equiped with a Bastard Sword which gives you a bonus of Atk +30. What do you do? You trash the monster as you have Atk 80 + 30 = 110 and the monster has only 10.
Simple?
Now, going into the new Munchkin. Munchkin is really similar to D&D. Basically you go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run.
This award-winning card game, designed by Steve Jackson, captures the essence of the dungeon experience... with none of that stupid roleplaying stuff. You and your friends compete to kill monsters and grab magic items. You get cursed, you get stomped and eaten, you get choked. What you can think of, they have it.
This game is similar to how you play D&D, but without the board and so much calculation and stuff. You start off with level 1, and to win the game you must get level 10. On the way, you'll get treasures(weapons and armorswhich gives you bonus), and potions, and curses, and monsters, and you'll get backstabbed by your friends, or your friends will help the monsters to eliminate you, or basically a monster will roast you and eat you up. You will be urged to change your sex, your race and your class.
For example:
You are a level 5 Dwarf, equiped with weapons that gives you bonus of 10. You open the door by drawing a card from the dungeon deck. It may be a curse, or maybe a monster, or if you are lucky, something that would help you. Let's say you draw up a monster which has level 13 on it. So how do you win? You take your level and add it to your bonus. And if it is more than the monster's level, you win.
Simple? Ready to play?
Oh another example?
Ok, let's say you have these cards on the table.
And these cards in your hands.
You have 6 coins on the table, so this means that you are a Level 6 Wizard dressed in Chainmail Bikini.
So what do you do first?
First you play:
You go up a level so now you are level 6. Then you put down the Dward card. Now you are a Level 6 Dwarf Wizard dressed in Chainmail Bikini.
Then you draw a card from the Dungeon Deck.
Holy corommy!!! Remember you are a dwarf, so because of something stupid grudge, the monster attacks with 16 points (10 + 6(cos u dwarf)) so to win the fight, you have to have 17 points above.
Let's see. You are level 6, with +7 bonus of your bikini, and then in your hand you have Magic Missile and Potion of Haliotisis which gives you bonus +5 and +2 respectively. So total:
7 + 3 + 5 + 2 = 17. Yes!!!! You win!
But before you could do anything, Elena threw a card on you.
Damn!! You lost 2 levels (17-2=15 < 16) So close, yet so far!!! You stared at her with angry eyes, but she just grinned and exchange High-5s with your other opponents. You wonder if you want to run away. You look at your friends and you go onto your knees begging for help. All of them look at you like they have never seen you before. With a cry, you decide to run.
You take up the dice. You have to role a 5 or higher to escape. Praying to everything, anything that would hear your pleas, you threw the dice. It spun round and round and round and landed on a 4.
Argh!!! Your scream echoes through the hall as the dice is placed into your hands again. It is time for your punishment as the card has decreed.
It's your throw, munchkin.
So what do you think of the game, now you have played it. Fun? It is hilarious
Equips armor like Sneaky Bastard Sword, Horny Helmet, wield weapons like Gentleman's Club, Huge Rock, Swiss Army Polearm and who can forget Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment. And of course the use potions (Cotion of Ponfusion, Flask of Glue, and Electric Radioactive Acid Potion. Why not curse your friends with Curse! Change Sex, or Curse! Chicken on Your Head, or just a simple Curse! Income Tax.
Open dungeons to fight monsters like Large Angry Chicken, Unspeakably Awful Indescribable Horror, Pukachu or fight Lawyers and Insurance Salesman who takes your possession if you lose the fight. And do not forget the other cards that do not qualify as anything but just to irritate. Invoke Obscure Rules, use Truly Obnoxious Curse!, Mutilate the Bodies or Whine at the GM(gamemaster) to gain a level, or win the game with Divine Intervention.
All in all, it was a really fun filled time playing it with the gang. Imagine sitting in Food Ave and suddenly shout "I unleashed on you the Shrieking Geek!" or announcing in public "I put on the Pantyhose of Giant Strenght."
So in the end, the champion is crowned and declared,
Play the game, it is fun. And just to tell you guys the last part of the rule book.
When the cards disagree with the rules, follow the cards. Any
other disputes should be settled by loud arguments among the
players, with the owner of the game having the last word.
Enjoy, my dear passengers.
Well, I don't care if it's God's own personal anti-son-of-a------ machine,
or a giant hoola hoop, we're not gonna let 'em have it!
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