Munchkin (game): Difference between revisions

* [[Beyond the Impossible]] / [[Fridge Logic]]: Two of the cards that can be played to make combat difficult are [[Last of His Kind|Last of Its Race]] and [[Cloning Blues|And Its Clone]]. They can both be played on the same monster.

** There's also Mate and Brood, both of which would be rather illogical to play on a monster that had been made Last Of Its Race. Munchkin Cthulhu also adds "...and its Spawn."

** "Cheat With Both Hands" (the seventh expansion for the main game) is this trope in card game form. Along with the titular card (which lets you cheat for two items), there are cards which provide extra or even unlimited Races and Classes.

** The card called "Cheat" allows you to disregard all restrictions when attached to an item card. Depending on how loosely your group interprets the rules, this may lead to physically impossible things (such as wielding more weapons than you have hands).

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The Divine Intervention card.

** Not to mention [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Deus Ex Machinegun]].

** Made even more humorous when the outcome of the battles inevitably rely on which player has the best one-shot items.

* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]: "Of Doom" is an Equipment Modifier, there's the Duck of Doom, and a piece of equipment in Munchkin Cthulhu is the Sushi Knife of Doom. Yes, this means that if you play both versions together you may end up with the [[Department of Redundancy Department|Sushi Knife of Doom...Of Doom!]]

* [[Dungeon Crawling]]: There's no actual dungeon map, but the game assumes that you're in one.

** For a similar game with a dungeon map, there's the spinoff [[Munchkin Quest]].

** [[Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons]]

* [[Evil Is One Big Happy Family]]: Cultists from ''Munchkin Cthulhu'' gain larger bonuses the more cultists are on play.

* [[Exact Words]]: Let's put it this way: This game had to have errata added to clarify that, yes, the bad stuff 'you are roasted and eaten' means 'you are dead'. The game's played by [[Munchkin|Munchkins]], what else do you think they're going to do about rules they don't like?

** The text on it also qualifies as [[Don't Touch It You Idiot]]--"You should know better than to pick up a duck in a dungeon!"--and [[Noodle Incident]]--why ''would'' a duck be such a dangerous thing to pick up in a dungeon?

* [[Have a Nice Death]]: the "Bad Stuff" on some monster cards

** The Magnificent Hat card features art by [[Phil Foglio]]. Double Bonus: It's sported by a [[Girl Genius|Jaegermonster]].

** Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, featuring Aubrey from [[Something Positive]].

* [[I Know Kung Faux]]: Parodied in ''Munchkin Fu,'' with techniques like Drunken Monkey Kung Fu, Fee Fi Fo Fu, and Stomach Fu.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Most of the cards. Most notably "The Punster" from ''Super Munchkin'', who's stated as being "just a card. Ha ha. '''Kill him right now'''."

** And of course by mixing sets, the former might also become, just to name a few weapon bonuses, a "My Pappy's Old", "Blacker Than Black", "Gold-Plated" LDRMSBBL "...of Doom", "With Spiky Bits". Possibly even doubling its bonus.

** It is, however, possible to obtain the "Antimatter" trap, either via the initial draw or Looting The Room, and then to use said trap to turn someone's [[Game Breaker|stacked-laser weapon]] into an un-droppable [[Inverted Trope|Negative Infinity Minus One Sword]]. (The combined laser [[Crippling Overspecialization|counts as a single two-handed "complex" item]], so it works.) The unfortunate person/Munchkin on the receiving end is [[Fate Worse Than Death|pretty much crippled as a result]].

*** Made even more fun when [[The Plan|you're holding onto the "Antimatter" trap in your hand waiting specifically for someone to build their laser up to a big enough bonus]] ...

* [[Kneecapping]]: The card game gives us the Hammer of Kneecapping, usable only by dwarves.

* [[Loads and Loads of Rules]]: More rules get added every deck. There's even a rule lampshading this.