Cheesy Munchkin Fun
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jcfialaHi all.
Well, today I played in a really fun game - a new 'Living' campaign known as Cheesy Munchkin Adventures that's run by a local GM named Troy. It was a lot of fun.
First off, you've got to understand this is based on the Munchkin d20 books by Steve Jackson Games, plus plus! As such, we not only have access to all of the D&D books and the Munchkin books, but Troy had made a list of approved publishers - we could take feats, spells, skills, and classes for any of these books, as long as they didn't use the Vitality Points/Wound Points mechanism.
As it happens, Guardians of Order is on the approved list, and their Mecha d20 book doesn't use VP/WP. And it included a Mecha Pilot d20 class that starts at first level with a Mecha. How interesting. I sent an email off to Troy asking him about it, and then pointing him to the SRD for Mecha d20, which has all the details. He admitted it was legal, and pointed out that by the rules of CMA, I've got to have a physical copy of the book. (Not a problem in this case - it's only $20.) I pulled up the SRD and started cracking numbers.
The game started up early today at Attactix, one of many good local gaming stores. We all arrived and started browsing for miniatures, looking for something to fit our characters. I'd found a cheap Wargods of Egyptus one, when Troy mentioned that if we used the official Munchkin Miniatures, we'd get a benefit. This all went back and forth - it's a $25 set for 6 minis, but eventually the whole group agreed to buy the box and split the minis. The Wizard was was for halflings, and we had two wizards who were half-halflings. (Munchkin doesn't see why humans get to have all the cross-species sex.) Troy wasn't sure if Elflings or Gnomelings qualify as Halflings, but I paid him $2 and he agreed it was close enough. Tammy and the other guy diced off, and Tammy ended up with the fig, leaving the other guy (David M?) with a fig that gives a +4 to AC.
See, Munchkin's all about having fun, and making D&D as much a board game as it is a roleplaying game. All throught the game, Tammy was calling out 'I'm a Wizard!' to get +2 bonuses on her rolls, David was getting a +4 to his AC just because of his mini, and I was a little more wise because I ended up with the Cleric mini. And yet, we roleplayed, we joked, we had fun. It was a blast. (I may give up playing Greyhawk to just play Munchkin, only there aren't that many senarios yet.)
The three of us hung out in a bar, and my character (Dallas Tekas) caged three silver from my wife's character for dinner. We listened to a crazy old man who gave us all our plot hook - there's an old mine outside of town where some nasty things live, and a little boy named Timmy! had dissapeared inside. We tracked down the owner of the mine, whose son had disappeared inside of it. He gave us a week's food and boarding to clear the place out.
I don't want to give away everything, but it was fun. My character's mecha suit was described as being a magical artifact named 'The First of Kord', a red bundle of nastiness that (in true anime tradition) I could summon using the special holy symbol of Kord my character wears. The suit is marvelous - +10 STR, +10 AC, 16 Defense, etc. At one point Troy, almost overwhelmed with how madly I was mangling things, ruled that the Defense didn't protect against force effects, which means it now takes damage from Magic Missle, one of the most common damage-dealing effects in the game. (I'll have to find a broach of shielding, I can see.) At the end of the game he pointed out that the book does have level/CR equivalences for the point values, and from that decided that my character has an Level equivalence of 5 with the suit - so I need to earn 6000 xp to go up to 'second' level, which I'll probably take with the 'Warrior' class from the MPH.
That's not bad, though, as the Munchkin experience includes giving out enough XP so people can level nearly every module. Most of the table got 1200+ xp, with my wife getting a little extra thanks to her elven heritage's 'Aid Another' ability, which gives her an extra 25 xp for wounding a creature that is killed by another character. This isn't bad for her, being a wizard, as she can use them to scribe scrolls.
If you're in the area, I really, really recommend Cheesy Munchkin Adventures. It's pure out fun, without the worries about arcane rules from the RPGA, character survivablility (Character's don't ever die - they just go down a level) or game balance. Kill the Orcs, take their loot, and roleplay it - simple and easy.
Joe Bob says check it out.
Well, today I played in a really fun game - a new 'Living' campaign known as Cheesy Munchkin Adventures that's run by a local GM named Troy. It was a lot of fun.
First off, you've got to understand this is based on the Munchkin d20 books by Steve Jackson Games, plus plus! As such, we not only have access to all of the D&D books and the Munchkin books, but Troy had made a list of approved publishers - we could take feats, spells, skills, and classes for any of these books, as long as they didn't use the Vitality Points/Wound Points mechanism.
As it happens, Guardians of Order is on the approved list, and their Mecha d20 book doesn't use VP/WP. And it included a Mecha Pilot d20 class that starts at first level with a Mecha. How interesting. I sent an email off to Troy asking him about it, and then pointing him to the SRD for Mecha d20, which has all the details. He admitted it was legal, and pointed out that by the rules of CMA, I've got to have a physical copy of the book. (Not a problem in this case - it's only $20.) I pulled up the SRD and started cracking numbers.
The game started up early today at Attactix, one of many good local gaming stores. We all arrived and started browsing for miniatures, looking for something to fit our characters. I'd found a cheap Wargods of Egyptus one, when Troy mentioned that if we used the official Munchkin Miniatures, we'd get a benefit. This all went back and forth - it's a $25 set for 6 minis, but eventually the whole group agreed to buy the box and split the minis. The Wizard was was for halflings, and we had two wizards who were half-halflings. (Munchkin doesn't see why humans get to have all the cross-species sex.) Troy wasn't sure if Elflings or Gnomelings qualify as Halflings, but I paid him $2 and he agreed it was close enough. Tammy and the other guy diced off, and Tammy ended up with the fig, leaving the other guy (David M?) with a fig that gives a +4 to AC.
See, Munchkin's all about having fun, and making D&D as much a board game as it is a roleplaying game. All throught the game, Tammy was calling out 'I'm a Wizard!' to get +2 bonuses on her rolls, David was getting a +4 to his AC just because of his mini, and I was a little more wise because I ended up with the Cleric mini. And yet, we roleplayed, we joked, we had fun. It was a blast. (I may give up playing Greyhawk to just play Munchkin, only there aren't that many senarios yet.)
The three of us hung out in a bar, and my character (Dallas Tekas) caged three silver from my wife's character for dinner. We listened to a crazy old man who gave us all our plot hook - there's an old mine outside of town where some nasty things live, and a little boy named Timmy! had dissapeared inside. We tracked down the owner of the mine, whose son had disappeared inside of it. He gave us a week's food and boarding to clear the place out.
I don't want to give away everything, but it was fun. My character's mecha suit was described as being a magical artifact named 'The First of Kord', a red bundle of nastiness that (in true anime tradition) I could summon using the special holy symbol of Kord my character wears. The suit is marvelous - +10 STR, +10 AC, 16 Defense, etc. At one point Troy, almost overwhelmed with how madly I was mangling things, ruled that the Defense didn't protect against force effects, which means it now takes damage from Magic Missle, one of the most common damage-dealing effects in the game. (I'll have to find a broach of shielding, I can see.) At the end of the game he pointed out that the book does have level/CR equivalences for the point values, and from that decided that my character has an Level equivalence of 5 with the suit - so I need to earn 6000 xp to go up to 'second' level, which I'll probably take with the 'Warrior' class from the MPH.
That's not bad, though, as the Munchkin experience includes giving out enough XP so people can level nearly every module. Most of the table got 1200+ xp, with my wife getting a little extra thanks to her elven heritage's 'Aid Another' ability, which gives her an extra 25 xp for wounding a creature that is killed by another character. This isn't bad for her, being a wizard, as she can use them to scribe scrolls.
If you're in the area, I really, really recommend Cheesy Munchkin Adventures. It's pure out fun, without the worries about arcane rules from the RPGA, character survivablility (Character's don't ever die - they just go down a level) or game balance. Kill the Orcs, take their loot, and roleplay it - simple and easy.
Joe Bob says check it out.
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Date: 2003-10-20 06:37 pm (UTC)Glad you had fun! Next one premieres at Genghis!