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The game's name subsequently appeared many times in the classic [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510055816/http://pw1.netcom.com/~shagbert/pages/munchkins.html "Real Men, Real Roleplayers, Loonies, and Munchkins" list] as being the favorite game system for [[The Loonie]]. There's a ''reason'' for this.
If you actually want to see what the game's rules were like without [https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1411/48/1411487336677.pdf having to actually read it yourself], an online review is available [https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/classic/rev_6157.phtml on RPG.Net]. It's not pretty.
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* [[After the End]]: Fashan allegedly suffered a nuclear war 2000 years before the period in which the game is set, which is <s>blamed</s> responsible for many of the setting's oddities.
* [[Artistic License Biology]]: No few of the creatures native to the land of "Boosboodle" run on this trope. A good example is the concor, "the Fashan viper". It can grow as large as six feet long -- but its weight in pounds is only one-tenth its length in feet. That means that the average concor -- 3.5 feet long -- would only weigh about a third of a pound. By comparison, a three-foot python can weigh upwards of five pounds or more -- the concor would have more in common with a pipecleaner than a python. And this is a creature that's supposed to swallow its prey whole.
* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: The "Foklom" is just the ordinary brown bear. The description makes no bones about it.
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* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|Game Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Davis seems to have been completely unaware that his campaign map covered an area nearly the size of Australia, and laid out its geography and features as though it were the size of ''Pennsylvania''. Or smaller.
* [[Game-Favored Gender]]: As noted below, female characters halve their strength, constitution and hit points. The blank character sheet provided with the game also assumes your character will always be male, as there's no place on it to indicate your character is ''female''.
* [[Gender-Restricted Ability]]: "Intuition", an undefined ability possessed by all female characters, apparently as a sop for having all their physical stats halved.
* [[Giver of Lame Names]]: Davis. See ''Fail O'Suckyname'', above.
* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer|I Am Not Making This Up]]: A phrase found with astounding frequency in reviews of the game.
* [[It Amused Me]]: The explicit reason given on page 87 for providing a character sheet blank, a reference sheet for the gamemaster, and a key to both:
{{quote|These are handy sheets that we wanted to include for the fun of it.}}
:Not because they would be helpful or useful, or because they are necessary to the game. But because it was fun for the ''author'' to do so.
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: [https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1411/48/1411487336677.pdf PDFs of the booklet] can be found with a simple Google search. Certainly no one in their right mind is ever going to reissue this turkey. Except Davis, who did so in 1998 so he could charge $20 (and then $50) a copy for it.
* [[Land of One City|Land of Four Cities]]: In a campaign map the size of Australia.
* [[Missing Episode]]: Numerous tables and other content invoked by name in the rules (such as the Destiny Table) ''do not exist'' because the game was allegedly designed to be "open-ended" and they were to be created by the gamemaster specifically for the culture/civilization in which his campaign is set. There is nowhere in the rules where this content that had to be self-generated was collected in a list for the convenience (and edification) of the gamemaster. The issue is further confused by the author's lack of concern over making sure the names used to refer to other parts of the rules actually matched the titles of the relevant sections.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The herbivorous monster called a "gruf" is described as "a floating set of the major human nerve organs -- the eyes, brain and spinal cord" with burning green flames in their eyes.
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