March 2009 Game Night

I think this was a rousing success!

We started off with Will, Eric (who was a senior when I was a junior in high school, probably the first time I've seen him in 15 years), Shannon and myself playing Uno, just to start off the night. Will won (finally) (edit, I really wasn't paying that close attention obviously).

Then as more arrived (Proctor, Chris, Holly and Dave, Courtney and Dave), we started playing Munchkin.

This took the rest of the evening, for those who weren't here when we started, we added them in as we continued on.

This game was a combination of the silliness, constantly changing rules and sometimes confusion. It was very very fun though. I think with 9 people we had playing by the end it was a little long...but with 6 or 7 people playing it would probably be fairly quick and still pretty silly. The sort of screw your neighbor aspect of it also makes it fun. I help Chris, through a little misunderstanding I kind of screw myself (with the help of Dave) and then, later, I take my vengeance on them both.

After many hours, Eric teamed up with me, so that we could both win. After many people fighting off people at level 9 trying to win, the cards people had to play were diminished and we able to squeak out a victory.

Comments

[brandsilence]

Tell me more about this, Munchkin. Went to the site but didn't really understand what the game play might be like. The concept sounds fun. _ben

[brandsilence]

specifically, what game set do you recommend were i to purchase one?

[SammyD]

You use cards, the cards are either items, curses, rule changes, classes or races

So there's a flow chart that Steve Jackson games published.

So, for example, I draw a card, it's a monster of level 10, I'm level 5, I use my equipment (other cards), or effects that I may have in my hand to try to get to 10.

[SammyD]

I'm getting the Call of Cathulu edition...but we were playing the regular one. I know they are on amazon, and they were similarly priced at my local game/comic shop Mayhem (yes the same one as in Ames and they have one down in Des Moines)