Either/Or question on bad stuff

[paperflowers24]

If you don't successfully run away from a monster, and the bad stuff is "Either discard your whole hand or lose two levels", can you say you'll discard your hand even if at the time you have no cards in your hand to discard?

I said no, but I play with someone who is too persuasive to other munchkins and was over ruled.

[MunchkinMan]

If an option is impossible (e.g., if you have no cards in your hand, then you don't have a hand, so you can't discard "your hand"), you can't select it. The converse of this situation would be if the player was Level 1 (at which he could not lose a single Level), he must discard his hand. Someone at Level 1 with no hand would be immune to the Bad Stuff.

[paperflowers24]

thanks! that was my reasoning too - I won't let him get away with that next time. : )