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Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#1: Dec 30th 2010 at 2:17:13 PM

How many people here like to play it?

My group played it quite a bit before we switched to Bang!. The variants too, like Star Munchkin and Super Munchkin...

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
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#2: Dec 30th 2010 at 4:00:35 PM

Good times.

My family plays it with Go Up A Level cards instead providing +3 to either side in a combat. It tends to slow things down a bit and allow more time for profitable backstabbitude.

GardenGnome Impressive Title (1) Since: Sep, 2009
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#3: Jan 19th 2011 at 7:56:47 PM

I played Munchkin with my friends at lunch in highschool until we got sick of it. Then we got sick of President and went to Munchkin and Hearts. For one player, hiding cards up his sleeve was a regular thing. We never ran into any Tentacled monsters, which rendered the Manga Dungeon card useless (from the Dungeons expansion pack).

Also: whatever you do, don't play with all the versions of Munchkin you have at once. It took forever, and we had way too many cards (the cards in hand limit was removed). Mind you if we had found Star Munchkin we were going to play just that. I haven't played it yet though. In that session (which was at my friend's house) we did play Munchkin Cthulu, and had about half the people become cultists.

My title is based on the munchkin card of the same name. It gives a +1 bonus and takes up no body slots (not that it matters if nobody notices).

edited 19th Jan '11 7:57:54 PM by GardenGnome

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#4: Jan 19th 2011 at 9:51:36 PM

Hehe. I love getting a Poisoned Really Impressive Title of Doom.

Because, honestly, how does that even work?

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#5: Jan 19th 2011 at 10:14:07 PM

[up] The title is a Brown Note. It infects the psyches of monsters who hear you proclaim it, leading to unusually rapid psychosomatic symptoms.

That took like four seconds off the top of my head.

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#6: Jan 20th 2011 at 12:15:37 AM

Super Munchkin allows for fun combos with powers and items.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
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#7: Jan 20th 2011 at 1:10:14 AM

[up] I remember a friend of mine using Fire Arms and as many extra hand items as he could find managed to reach like a +21 bonus from not using actual weapons.

Dynamod -Nudge- from Eagle Land Since: Jan, 2011
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#8: Jan 20th 2011 at 9:14:12 AM

i have played this game just once: it was the most fun ive ever had playing a tcg! nothing like a genderbent yakuza midget dwarf who replaced his arm with a machine gun to save the day and steal the loot!

edited 20th Jan '11 9:14:30 AM by Dynamod

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Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#9: Jan 20th 2011 at 9:38:28 AM

It's not a Trading Card Game! It's just a regular card game.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Dynamod -Nudge- from Eagle Land Since: Jan, 2011
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#10: Jan 20th 2011 at 12:32:03 PM

oh yeah. well, you know what i mean. best card game ever.

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CountDorku Behold my legal acumen! from the depths of insanity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#11: Jan 20th 2011 at 1:08:31 PM

[up][up] Can you imagine if Munchkin was a TCG?

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#12: Jan 25th 2011 at 5:49:35 PM

[up]Unholy Crap. That would be a good name for a card.

I think munchkin is a good game. But some games can drag on too long for some reason. I don't think I've tried to actually cheat while playing Munchkin. Dose that make it better?

edited 25th Jan '11 5:50:13 PM by DrStarky

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#13: Jan 25th 2011 at 6:47:02 PM

IMX, Munchkin Bites takes the longest. Too many 'lose a level' cards.

That said, I do enjoy Munchkin, but it's so hard to find people willing to participate in the backstabbing fun without getting all butt-hurt over it.

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#14: Feb 1st 2011 at 5:09:02 PM

Been a while since I've played Munchkin. I picked up Star Munchkin and the Clown Wars at a convention, haven't had too many opportunities to play; most people aren't interested, and I've always felt you needed at least three people to play properly.

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Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#15: Feb 2nd 2011 at 12:41:01 AM

Well, I really enjoyed it and would like to play it again, but my friends are more interested in Bang! now (recently we had a 9-player game that didn't even last a turn; the sheriff was dead before player 9 had a chance to play).

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
#16: Jun 30th 2011 at 5:49:07 PM

Ressurecting this thread because I was going to make one before I found it.

I just got Munchkin Booty a few days ago. Haven't played it yet. I play Munchkin Fu fairly often (Back Banner ftw!) and am looking forward to combining the two for the ultimate Pirate vs Ninja showdown.

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ArcanGenth Since: Aug, 2009
#17: Sep 21st 2011 at 8:02:00 PM

Played for the first time tonight after our D&D session ended early(we curb-stomped the 3-hour encounter in about 45 minutes. Lucky rolls and crits everywhere. It was awesome).

With 6 players the game lasted the rest of the night. Nobody won, due to the store closing, but I liked it enough to buy the 'Deluxe' base game and an expansion. Hopefully I can get the wife to try it.

Aniventerie Detective Extroadinaire from Imagination World Since: Apr, 2010
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#18: Oct 7th 2011 at 6:46:22 AM

My sister and her group of friends are really into tabletop games of all sorts, so it was inevitable that her girlfriend would eventually buy Super Munchkin. Playing it through, I thought it was very entertaining, especially the rules-lawyering and power-gaming you need to be able to succeed. At one point I had the Techno class (which allows you to treat two-handed items as one handed) and a power granting extra arms, letting me have four two handed gadgets all at once.

edited 7th Oct '11 8:01:33 PM by Aniventerie

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#19: Oct 9th 2011 at 4:43:43 PM

One time I used the Super Munchkin card to dual class Warrior with another Warrior, doubling the abilities.

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#20: Oct 10th 2011 at 1:06:15 AM

[up]This reminds me of Generic Half-Elven Dual-Class Ranger.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
BananaRamma Survivor Since: Jun, 2011
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#21: Oct 10th 2011 at 7:37:03 PM

[up][up] That reminds me of the time somebody in a game of Munchkin Bites was a halfbreed werewolf werewolf. We reasoned that meant every numeric quality applied to werewolves doubled for her. It was nuts.

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BananaRamma Survivor Since: Jun, 2011
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#23: Oct 18th 2011 at 9:37:43 PM

[up] We just figured she was a wolf who, on the full moon, turned into another wolf.

Barrylocke Reaching the Future, the hard way from Thracia Since: Aug, 2009
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#24: Jan 28th 2012 at 8:59:53 PM

Just played this for the first time. I actually won too :D Liked it so much that I bought Munchkin Zombie (aka the only one available besides Vanilla Munchkin, which my friends already have)

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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#25: Jan 28th 2012 at 9:01:04 PM

Got the original one + the two first expansions, Munchkin Impossible and Munchkin Quest.


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