Another Day, Another Christmas

Having a spread out family does mean that you can have more than one christmas. This was number two, with presents, enormous meal, flaming pudding and silly games. The silliest game we played was Munchkin. This arrived courtesy of number one son, who lists it amongst the cerebral things that he does at university.

If you like daft card games you will love it. It is a bit like an adventure quest type thing, but a seriously silly one. You fight with each other, help each other (if the price is right) and generally plot and scheme to get to be the strongest fighting force in the dungeon. The monsters are great. Grandad won by beating a level 8 Gazebo....

Comments

[Simon Crowder]

Steve Jackson is quite a legend, he's produced tons and tons of roleplaying games, some serious, some not, for all sorts of genres.

There are actually two people called Steve Jackson that do this type of thing, which is very confusing. Games Worshop and Fighting Fantasy are both made by a different Steve Jackson, who used to (might still) work at (possibly even own) Lionhead Studios (Black & White).

Munchkin is the technical term used for someone who plays purely to be the most powerful at something, expecting never to die or lose, and to be able to defeat people with ridiculous ease. They play oblivious to the fact they're missing the whole point, and fail to understand most of the game, usually getting tricked by other players who generally get annoyed with them after 5 minutes into killing themselves.

http://home.mira.net/~tosh/humour/realmen.htm