# Munchkin, the card game. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390 "2004-03-25T18:19:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/1 "2004-03-25T18:19:26Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/2 "2004-03-25T18:54:10Z")
You haven’t truly played Munchkin until you’ve fought against a brood of baby insurance salesman. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/3 "2004-03-25T19:16:51Z")
I think I need to get this game. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/4 "2004-03-25T19:34:31Z")
**Munch** you do. 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. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/5 "2004-03-25T20:01:35Z")
Haven’t played the game, but I love the John Kolvaic artwork. Go read **Dork Tower,** people! ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/6 "2004-03-25T20:45:01Z")
> [@ITR champion](#): > > You haven’t truly played Munchkin until you’ve fought against a brood of baby insurance salesman. 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… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![coffeecam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc8723/32.png) [@coffeecam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecam)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/7 "2004-03-25T21:34:57Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > Haven’t played the game, but I love the John Kolvaic artwork. > > Go read **Dork Tower,** people! **CHEZ GEEK** for the quotes on RPGs alone this game is worth the money. And yes that’s John Kolvaic’s work too. (my interest is helped when John occasionally works on his comics where I spend my time skipping class, ah the union terrace.) “Roll the dice… I want to see if I eat your spleen.” “We follow the demon into HELL!” “WHAT?” “I ready my ‘fireball’ spell…” “I said, I KILL GANDALF!” “You do WHAT!” “I believe the time has come to mobilize the Shire.” C, wishes his life came with expansion packs. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/8 "2004-03-25T22:40:39Z")
Yeah, Star Munchkin! I’m a fan of BottleBottle, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Cobalt\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Cobalt\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cobalt_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/9 "2004-03-26T01:58:19Z")
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. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/10 "2004-03-26T02:10:46Z")
Ah, Munchkin. The best reason ever to shout “HIT HIM WITH THE DUCK!” at 2:00am on a Sunday night. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/11 "2004-03-26T02:49:15Z")
‘You should know better than to pick up a duck in a dungeon’ is in my lexicon. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/munchkin-the-card-game/236390/12 "2004-03-26T05:21:51Z")
I love this game. Partly because I’ve won both games I’ve ever played. 🙂 Plus there’s TWO Sluggy Freelance references, one with a Monty Python ref on the SAME card! Gotta love that!