"Munchkin - what else to get?" Topic

Last night I picked up my first box of munchkin, The Good the Bad and the Munchkin, on a whim. It was sitting in the local bookstore by itself on sale.

Now I have been wanting to try it out for ages but never got around too it.

The test play was a lot of fun so I was wondering what I should get next?

What are essential expansions to have? Could I buy the card expansions and not the box set and will it still work? Like say perhaps Need for Steed?

From what I understand, you can pretty much mix and match whatever game you want.

I'm a big fan of Munchkin Cthulhu.

You can add any of the expansions, IIRC. If you're obsessive enough, the T-shirts (as modelled on the front page of this very website, for far too long now) give in-game bonuses.

Oh, and most important of all; friends who get the joke; I had the misfortune to play it with people who took the whole thing depressingly seriously.

Barnes & Noble has the bobblehead Munchkin set in their stores.

To add another set to Good, Bad and Munchkin you need to pick up Munchkin Blender, then go to town…

Matt

"Need" is a bit strong, but Munchkin Blender makes the mixing of different genre sets easier.

You should start with the basic set in any given genre to get the vocabulary and genre-specific rules. Once you get familiar you don't necessarily have to use them that way, but having the basic boxes cuts down on the "Wait, what?" occurrences.

After you add another couple of decks, get a card shuffler. Seriously.

Among the base sets, Munchkin Cthulhu is indeed a cut above the others that I've played, in my opinion. I have not yet played the cowboy one, though.

The expansion sets won't play well on their own. Not enough cards, not in the right mix.

Adding Munchkin Cthulhu expansion to The Good the Bad and the Munchkin will give poor results, too, since some of the items will give bonuses to classes or races in MC that aren't in GBM, and the monsters will have similar problems.

Mixing two base sets will give pretty good results, since you will now have the items and classes necessary to get bonuses and penalties. If you mix too many cards, however, as in three base sets with an expansion for each, you may get a Wizard card, but you'll never get the items that give a bonus to wizards – there are just too many cards.

So I'd say another base set is your next stop, then go to the expansions.

With basic Munchkin (that is to say, the fantasy setting) I don't think you need to add the expansions in numerical order, necessarily. You might want to pick through cards that don't connect to anything, though; eg, if an item in expansion 4 gives a bonus only to members of a class introduced in expansion 2, you might want to pull it until you get expansion 2.

I do think Munchkin 6 could be added directly to the base set without too much trouble.

Warehouse 23 has a Munchkin level counter that's essentially a Munchkin miniature on a dial, so if you want to apply your painting skills to a cool level counter, that's a possible direction.

A company called Q-Workshop has licensed some Munchkin art and produced a 10-sided die level counter with pictures of the basic Munchkin character gradually increasing in his equipment from side to side, starting with nothing and gaining weapons and armor until he looks like the front of the box. Not bad for $5, and the in-game bonus for owning and using the die is that you start at level 2! I've got mine right here…

BTW I have seen Munchkin Quest (at GTS, where I was helping promote it). Its supposed to be out in August and cost $50, and its great. Its not the card game all over again with a board stapled on, its a real board game and its real fun.

Oh, and Munchkin Booty will be out in September.

So, really, you can spend an awful lot of money here…

Andrew

My son's a big fan of Munchkin Impossible and Munchkin Bites [apparently it reminds him of lots of gothy/emo types at school…and he's only 10!]

Munchkin Cthulhu is next on our list although I suspect if he gets wind of Munchkin Booty that might be it.

Munchkin Booty looks very cool. John Kovalic's style fits perfectly with pirates, who knew. Instead of races you have accents, giving you different flavors of pirates, as well as merchants, navy, I can't remember what else. I'm looking forward to it.

Andrew

The Piano Tuna, has to be seen to believed from that set, he previewed it on his site…

I prefer not to mix genres. I find the humor looses it's impact when you are mixing fantasy puns with star wars puns with vampire puns and … you get the point.

Obviously, the fact they sell "Blender" means many, many people must enjoy mixing genres. Just not me.

I have every Munchkin set you can get. Get the original munchkin. A lot more expansions to add to your game. Actually, I suggest getting them all but you gotta start somewhere.

Different mix and match combos make fun game. Munchkin Fu mixed with Super Munchkin gives a super kung fu type of game for example. Six of us did mix ALL of them and play to level 20 with the epic rules. A good four hour game. Fun fun fun.

We get together with friends 2 or 3 times a month and Munchkin accounts for about a third to a half of our game nights.

Thanks for all the responses. I will be picking up one more of the box sets and seeing how I like mixing them.

I'm looking at either the original Munchkin game(fantasy) or Munchkin Bites… Vampire Cowboys :)