Whats a Munchkin?

Irish Wolf · 06-12-2006, 06:01 PM

A friend of mine is in the process of being guided away from the Dark Side. The only system he has any experience with yet is d20 D&D (hey, we're both too broke to buy any new books right now!), which he used to play with some of his Navy shipmates on long deployments. He got some bad munchkin habits there, the worst of which was insisting on playing barbarian warriors - not because he liked pretending to be a barbarian warrior, but because they got more powerful combat-oriented gimmicks than anyone else.

I started curing him of that by running a series of adventures that started off in a magically-protected tower (only elves or half-elves could pass through the barrier unassisted - it dated from the Midsummer Massacre, when the ruler of a large human empire went crazy and tried to eliminate all the nonhumans - which meant his human barbarian needed some friends), then went through a city's primitive sewers (the ancient dungeon, built over 3000 years before, had long since been forgotten, and one of the biggest cities in the entire Outmarches region was built right over it). All that crap about "hiding in the trees for an ambush" and "crazed combat charges" and "leaping vast crevasses" didn't come up much in there... :-)

06-12-2006, 06:01 PM	#15
Irish Wolf Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Earth, mostly	Re: Whats a Munchkin? A friend of mine is in the process of being guided away from the Dark Side. The only system he has any experience with yet is d20 D&D (hey, we're both too broke to buy any new books right now!), which he used to play with some of his Navy shipmates on long deployments. He got some bad munchkin habits there, the worst of which was insisting on playing barbarian warriors - not because he liked pretending to be a barbarian warrior, but because they got more powerful combat-oriented gimmicks than anyone else. I started curing him of that by running a series of adventures that started off in a magically-protected tower (only elves or half-elves could pass through the barrier unassisted - it dated from the Midsummer Massacre, when the ruler of a large human empire went crazy and tried to eliminate all the nonhumans - which meant his human barbarian needed some friends), then went through a city's primitive sewers (the ancient dungeon, built over 3000 years before, had long since been forgotten, and one of the biggest cities in the entire Outmarches region was built right over it). All that crap about "hiding in the trees for an ambush" and "crazed combat charges" and "leaping vast crevasses" didn't come up much in there... :-)