From: smooge@jupiter.nmt.edu (the Smooge)
Subject: Munchkin game
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:41:40 GMT

Well Kansas Jim has complained that I run munchkin games in the past
(which I disagree with.. I just let the players do more)... however
this saturday I freely admit that I ran a munchkin game at the college
con. I had 8 people make up characters in Torg using whatever template
they wished. I wasnt allowing an elven dragon rider (with dragon) but
anything else was fair game...

I ended up with an elven mage who took all the state knowledges (which
I now know I will have to rework), an elven monk, an Akite Psionicist,
a Sumo Wrestler, a ravagon (which was the best played character ie
most role played), a adventurer scholar (who came in second for
roleplaying), and two others that I dont really remember. The party is
"enlisted" by the Storm Knights Registration act to stop a plague of
gospogs (ie the adventure from Cylent Scream). I changed the location
to a bio plant in South Dakota in a mixed zone of the newly connected
Eastern and Western lands. The party goes through a few combats to get
to the base and run into a fifth planting gospog, 2 ravagons, several
2nd planting gospogs, and Baruuh Kaah. The party did not stop to look
what was happening in the compound (which is what I was hoping they
would do, but charged right in.) If they had waited one more round,
Baruuh Kaah would of finished his invocation to Lanala to fill every
gospog in the living land with the living things in the vials (ie the
viruses). Well, with the spell snail's wit (reducing Baruuh Kaah to a
vegetable (ok so no one noticed.)), an invisibility spell, and several
huge tricks that did not use possibilities, Baruuh Kaah killed the
fifth planting gospog with the cause pain miracle. Baruuh Kaah and the
ravagons then did not roll higher than a 5 for the rest of the combat.
The party however did not roll high enough to hurt the enemy so
everything went into long combat mode for a long time. Then the martyr
card appeared into the elven monk's hands. He traded it in for a
possibility, the sumo wrestler master planned it, the party setback
Baruuh Kaah, and the Sumo Wrestler did an anime leap-crush onto Baruuh
Kaah... (which he then used all the drama cards he had been saving for
the adventure plus several hero cards and a possibility.) From the
setbacks and the fact that Rec Pakken is looking for a good excuse to
get a new highlord (ie would not let BK negate), we had the end of BK
looking something like a ketchup packet underneath a 800 pound sumo
(the sumo died from the cause pain miracle BK had up). While I should
of had BK reality storm each one in turn... I had planned for either
the party to get massacred by the 5th planting or a munchkin night..
I got the second... and to tell you the truth a bad taste in my mouth.

It did teach me some lessons... spell manipulation can make impressed
spells immeadiate (something I need to change)... and ravagons are NOT
munchkin characters. He and the akashan were the only balanced ones...
Now here is a question?  Are ravagons effected by syphilis (he got
nailed by a random plague.)

the Smooge
(writing I will not run munchkin games EVER again 1000 times)

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