From: lavonius@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Ville Lavonius)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Son of the Munchkin Guide
Date: 30 Aug 92 10:03:05 GMT
Organization: Vidal Sassoon's Mosh&Go


These are kinda old, I just wrote them when I re-read Munchkin Guide a few
months back.

Feel free to be offended or add...

The basic RPG-players:

*The Real Man*
    The tough macho type who walks up to the attacking dragon and tells him
to leave before he gets hurt.
 
*The Real Roleplayer*
    The intelligent cunning guy who tricks the constable into letting you
all out of prison.
 
*The Loonie*
    The guy who will do anything for a cheap laugh, including casting a
fireball at ground zero.
 
*The Munchkin*
    Need we say more?


REACTIONS TO AD&D2:

	*Real Men* think it's OK.
	*Real Roleplayers* think it has improved a bit but still has a bunch of
faults.
	*Loonies* like the improved graphics but mourn the passing of the 
impossibly inane jokes from the DMG.
	*Munchkins* have already blown their dads' accounts buying all what's 
been published.

REACTION TO DARK SUN:

	*Real men* like to have worthy opponents.
	*Real roleplayers* think that the setting has some promise.
	*Loonies* are delighted by Cannibal Hobbits.
	*Munchkins* are already creating 25/25 level characters using Dragon 
Kings.

FAVE HANDBOOK:

	*Real Men* like the Fighter's (wouldn't have guessed, would you).
	*Real Roleplayers* like the Thief's (lotsa nifty background notes).
	*Loonies* like the Campaign/Catacomb guide (so bad it's got to be 
good).
	*Munchkins* like all of them.

FAVE TSR CAMPAIGN SETTING:

	*Real Men* like Greyhawk.
	*Real Roleplayers* like Forgotten Realms (but rather play in an own 
setting).
	*Loonies* like Spelljammer.
	*Munchkins* play in all of them.

FAVE DRAGON COMIC:

	*Real Men* liked Wormy.
	*Real Roleplayers* liked Wormy.
	*Loonies* liked Wormy.
	*Munchkins* like Robinson's War.

WHO SHOULD BE EDITOR OF THE DRAGON:

	*Real Men* would like Kim Mohan back.
	*Real Roleplayers* would like to see Jeff Grubb usurp the throne.
	*Loonies* would like Snarf as the editor.
	*Munchkins* want to have EGG or Elminster.

WHAT KIND OF CHAR. SHEETS DO PLAYERS USE:

	*Real Men* use scrap paper and pizza cartons.
	*Real Roleplayers* have details in a spreadsheet program.
	*Loonies* use totally unintelligible multipurpose sheets of their own 
invention.
	*Munchkins* use Official Character Sheets (tm) only, without even 
resorting to photocopying.

REASON TO DISLIKE TORG:

	*Real Men* are bothered that all the players get referred to as _she_.
	*Real Roleplayers* are bothered by the ambiguous miracle-rules.
	*Loonies* mourn that there's no Toontown cosm (of Roger Rabbit fame).
	*Munchkins* don't like anything not by TSR.

FAVE TORG TEMPLATE/TAG SKILL:

	*Real Men* like tough hero and barbarian / any combat-skill.
	*Real Roleplayers* like vampyre hunter / evidence analysis.
	*Loonies* like Renegade gospog / Artist (bellydancing).
	*Munchkins* create their own characters by rolling 3d6 / jinx tables.

FAVE COSM

	*Real men* like Living Land.
	*Real Roleplayers* like Cyberpapacy.
	*Loonies* like the new Nile Empire.
	*Munchkins* like Tharkold, but use it only as Big Guns setting.

FAVE RPG-MAGAZINE:

	*Real Men* still read General.
	*Real Roleplayers* have switched to White Wolf.
	*Loonies* can't be bothered with rpg-zines.
	*Munchkins* read anything by TSR.

THE BEST NEW GAME:

	*Real Men* like Macho Women With Guns.
	*Real Roleplayers* like Vampire.
	*Loonies* like "Oi, dat's me leg".
	*Munchkins* like Buck Rogers.

WHAT KIND OF MESSAGES DO THEY READ ON THE NET:

	*Real men* read only messages in which the word 'combat' appears on 
the subject line.
	*Real Roleplayers* read all messages in r.g.frp.
	*Loonies* subscribe to alt.stupidity.
	*Munchkins* have (thank God) no access to the netnews.
--
Ville Lavonius	        University of Helsinki, Dept. of Computer Science
lavonius@cc.helsinki.fi : I'm the son of a gun and the gun of a son