Munchkin Madness!

Went out to celebrate Hongxuan's birthday just now (albeit a little belated, but better late than never..and trust me, were they late...hahaha). We had dinner at The Mind Cafe at Selegie, and then it was games games and more games (actually we only played Taboo and Munchkins, which were more than sufficient for us sia).

Everyone should know what Taboo is right? Basically try to describe a certain object to your teammates without mentioning a list of 'taboo' words given. Every object comes with its own list of 'taboo' words. After about 15 odd rounds, we moved on to Munchkins! The learning curve was a little steep at first because it's a card game set in a fantasy world, and most people don't really dig the fantasy shit. But that quickly disappeared when we began playing!

Basically, we all start as level ONE Humans and along the way, we can gain Classes (Warrior, Thief, Cleric etc.) and Races (Dwarf, Elf, Halfling etc.). The aim is to reach Level 10, and we do this by killing monsters and through special cards that instruct us to do special actions. There are monsters that are crazy, like Plutonium Dragon, Drooling Slime, and (my personal fav) Lame Goblin. There are also items like Magic Missile, Rapier of Unfairness and even Big Rock.

It doesn't sound that intimidating right? There are special 'spell' cards that do funky things too! Like Pollymorph Potion (turns monsters into parrots), Divine Intervention, and Friendship Potion! Don't forget the Curses as well! ^_^Don't forget the Curses as well! ^_^

I really loved the game lah...Kit Loong told me about it ages ago during OCS, but I never got around to buying it, or playing it. I finally got a chance today...and I think I may want to get a deck for myself...(or getting it as a birthday present wouldn't be half bad...heh)

There are already SOOO many sets and special themes out in the market! Gosh...so exciting...I wan...............

Visit the official Munchkin website for more details now!

Steve Jackson rocks! (who is Steve? he designed the game lah!)

PS: I almost won the game with Transferral Potion and (can't remember the card name) some card that allowed me to force someone to help me fight a monster. That plan was foiled by Lionel's well-played Magic Lamp (which negates level-gain). I was one level away from winning can?

In the end, Lionel, Lionel and Hongxuan won with an excellent combination of all three of them attaining Cleric class status, Stealing A Level from me, and a timely Wand of Dowsing fetched Divine Intervention from the discard pile to allow all of them to attain Level 10 simultaneously! Very impressive play sia...everyone bowed to their greatness...heh

I lost the game as a Level 9 Elf wielding a Singing and Dancing Sword (amongst other items, I just felt the sword was the funniest because it specifically says that Thieves cannot use it...which totally makes sense, don't u think?).