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Old 01-04-2006, 12:57 AM   #52
roguebfl
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Default Re: Whats a Munchkin?

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Originally Posted by Toadkiller_Dog
My definition of munchkin, to address the topic, is a little more flexible. Basically, I apply it to rule-bending cheats trying to achieve maximal power regardless of the intent and design of the rules. Merely maximizing power is more of a "power gamer" - a label that fits me exactly in CRPGs, wargames, and in my old PBM days. You can be a power gamer with excellent roleplaying skills and a good character background, but I find it hard to think of a real munchkin having positive gaming benefits.
On the behave of power games I'll have to cry insult there 8)

Powers games like high powered characters, in high powered settings, this has nothing to with rule bending or disregard to intent.

the only rule bending might bein in house rules to get the setting feel out of an inferior system that only goes most of the way to creating a game the group wants. But that's done as a group.
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