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Old 01-04-2006, 12:29 PM   #84
Tom Kalbfus
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Default Re: Whats a Munchkin?

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Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company
I think you're missing the point here. What makes this definition and the nigh-identical one up-thread (mentioning Renaissance Florence rather than Victorian London) work is that the specifics of the setting kinda don't matter, nor specifically that it's a ninja. A munchin is the sort of person who would want to play a kewl, often ethnically badass, killer no matter what the setting is. He'd want to play a ninja in a Sherlock Holmes-themed campaign, in a political Renaissance campaign, in a mercantile campaign along the Silk Road, in the Uplift universe, or in a Jane Austen novel. Or he might want to play an Ultimate Fighting champion in all of them, or a shotgun-weilding renegade biker in all of them. The point is that he wants to wear a particular kind of badass outfit and kill lots of people with ease with a particular weapon or fighting style, no matter how absurd or impossible they might be in any given campaign, and can't and doesn't think beyond that.
Someone who plays Sherlock Holmes in Victorian 18th Century London would be just as out of place as the guy who plays the Ninja, maybe even more so, because from the point of view of the 18th century Londoners with there tricorn hats and their powdered wigs, Sherlock Holmes cap and cloak and pipe will appear quite outlandish, the Ninja, they'll understand as he comes from the foreign culture, but Sherlock? Where did he get those futuristic duds anyway?
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