Oh, my. We just got this and one of the expansion packs a bit ago and have been playing. Oh so funny. For people who were big D & D nerds as kids but then got over it (or didn’t) it’s frikking hilarious. Need more expansion packs. . .
Santa Claus.
Kneepads of Allure.
Sneaky bastard sword.
Gentlemen’s club. . . of DOOM!
Rules question for the anal retentive people-- what happens when you are using the +4 sword against everything except squid and someone adds squidzilla via wandering monsters? Does the +4 count against the other monster, or is out for the whoel combat?
As for the OP’s question if one monster prevents something from being used then you can’t use that thing*. You can’t say you are using something against a specific monster unless it is a card that actually says “One monster…” or “Pick a monster…” or the like. Also if a card forces you to run from a monster in the combat (as the +4SAEES does IIRC) you have to run from every monster. You can’t split up a combat against multiple monsters, you fight them all or you fight none.
One of the beautiful things about Munchkin is that only half (at most) of the game is the actual cards and trying to get to level 10. The rest is bickering over the rules, citing previous games, overturning those past rulings and making up fixes for “clear abuses” that are quickly turned into self serving additions to the rules that produce far more problems than they ever solve. At one point my group of friends considered writing down all our rulings and house rules to facilitate play. It would have taken about thirty pages or so to accomplish, and really wouldn’t have added anything. The game is so much fun because the basic rules and cards imply a number of different ways the game could actually be played.
I’ve always wanted to go to a convention and play it with Steve Jackson.
This makes combinations like the Ghoul Fiends and the Insurance Salesman (IIRC) unpleasant as all hell.
Nah, you haven’t truly played Munchkin until you’ve thrown both Star Munchkin and Munchkin Fu into the game too. Ah, my old Half-Elf-Half-Gnome Yakuza-Space Ranger with Drunken Clown-Fu style, fighting with the Spirit-Animated X-Rayser of DOOM of my Grandfather. Those were the days…
Ah, damned if Kovalic isn’t the only person who’s ever made me go all fangirly, ever. Munchkin precipitated my slide into gamerdom. Chez Geek and its successors didn’t help. Really, I collect miniatures for their artistic value.
