Monster Levels Too Low

[Dreamer]

I just recently started playing munchkin regularly with friend and we noticed that we could easily beat monsters at the end of the game or get away from bad effects if we couldn't. My question is are there any packs that have monsters higher than level 20 and what you guys do to make the game harder? Thanks in advance!

[NOLAman]

You could always pick up monster enhancers, tons of cards to make monsters stonger.

[morleydotes]

Blend the base sets or add more expansions. The more cards you have to mess with folks, the harder it is to win. OR play Epic Rules. They do make it tougher.

Pat

[Dreamer]

Originally Posted by morleydotes

Blend the base sets or add more expansions. The more cards you have to mess with folks, the harder it is to win. OR play Epic Rules. They do make it tougher.

Pat

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when setting up a game next week.

[philreed]

Originally Posted by Dreamer

. . . what you guys do to make the game harder?

What I do is play nasty from turn one. If you start the game brutal it usually turns into some backstabbing action pretty fast. Be ruthless, mean, and take every opportunity you get to screw over anyone else no matter who they are.

[bondace007]

Originally Posted by philreed

What I do is play nasty from turn one. If you start the game brutal it usually turns into some backstabbing action pretty fast. Be ruthless, mean, and take every opportunity you get to screw over anyone else no matter who they are.

That is how I like to play my Munchkin games

[StormyWaters]

Originally Posted by philreed

What I do is play nasty from turn one. If you start the game brutal it usually turns into some backstabbing action pretty fast. Be ruthless, mean, and take every opportunity you get to screw over anyone else no matter who they are.

This. I know a lot of people that play the game with the mentality of "Oh they're only level 4, let them kill it". It's way easier to stop people early than to try stopping them when they've built up steam.

A +5 Monster Enhancer hurts a lot more against a level 1 than a level 9.

Play mean, play hard, play to win.

[Turhan's Bey Company]

Although I might not go so far as to recommend a maximally aggressive strategy from the very start (if you're playing all your cards to keep your opponents from getting levels, you're not playing them go get them for yourself), it is nevertheless the case that for most of the game, you should be fighting the other players as much as the monsters. Which means that the monster level is just one component of a fight, and it's often a relatively small one. If the people you play with can smack around high-level monsters without trouble, they're not smacking each other around enough.

[morleydotes]

Originally Posted by philreed

What I do is play nasty from turn one. If you start the game brutal it usually turns into some backstabbing action pretty fast. Be ruthless, mean, and take every opportunity you get to screw over anyone else no matter who they are.

In my home group, yes... At a convention, where I have to teach folks, I follow the Hackard Munchkin Theory of gaming.

I play against some of the best Munchkin players about and that is indeed how they play, low down, dirty, backstabbing Munchkins. From turn one, it's on! With the addition of Munchkinomicon, curses and traps have taken on a new meaning.

Sparkly Good Fairy damn near ruined the game for a bit. Everyone was being NICE to get the cards. Now it pays twice as much to be a curse monger...

Pat

[Dreamer]

I tried playing dirty from turn one and it was an amazing improvement. Not only did the people I was playing with respond by backstabbing everyone but I found that I actually had to try to get away from monsters much more often.