Member House Rules

[thedag]

Originally Posted by Techno-Man

[*]If an item is discarded, its attachments stay with it. So an Armored Piercing, Flaming, Self Cleaning, Gold Plated Eleven Foot Pole-a-matic With Spiky Bits of Doom and Destiny is discarded, and then reclaimed, those benefits stick with the weapon.

sounds interesting but could be confusing to keep track of cards attached to an item. How do you manage it or do you have a massive table

Originally Posted by Techno-Man

[*]If a player runs out of cards for any reason, even if they're not dead, they may draw two cards from each deck on their next turn.

This seems rough. Imagine a wizard with one card. Discards it to charm a monster and gets two cards in return. They are being rewarded for charming a monster rather than paying a price which defeats the purpose. It would be different if you had new rules as you are required to have three cards minimum. There are other similar abilities where this seems unfair. How do you get around that or has it not been an issue?

[Nakiro]

Originally Posted by thedag

This seems rough. Imagine a wizard with one card. Discards it to charm a monster and gets two cards in return. They are being rewarded for charming a monster rather than paying a price which defeats the purpose. It would be different if you had new rules as you are required to have three cards minimum. There are other similar abilities where this seems unfair. How do you get around that or has it not been an issue?

I think you have to have 3 cards in your hand to use Charm.
Though I do agree with you, you could play just to get rid of the cards in your hand so you get 4 more...

[Techno-Man]

Originally Posted by Nakiro

I think you have to have 3 cards in your hand to use Charm.
Though I do agree with you, you could play just to get rid of the cards in your hand so you get 4 more...

Well, keep in mind that we use all seven munchkin expansions plus other sets, so our card stacks are a good foot and a half high. We have cards to burn and since the wizard is getting penalized since he receives no level, it balances it out. More often than not though, a player will en up going entire rounds without any hand at all- everything he has is in play. So in order to keep cards flowing at a more rapid rate, we figured that would be the easiest way to solve the problem.

Now, if anybody has any suggestions on how to keep the damn monster-deck thing staying upright and not toppeling each time someone draws, that would be useful.

[Nakiro]

Originally Posted by Techno-Man

Well, keep in mind that we use all seven munchkin expansions plus other sets, so our card stacks are a good foot and a half high. We have cards to burn and since the wizard is getting penalized since he receives no level, it balances it out. More often than not though, a player will en up going entire rounds without any hand at all- everything he has is in play. So in order to keep cards flowing at a more rapid rate, we figured that would be the easiest way to solve the problem.

Now, if anybody has any suggestions on how to keep the damn monster-deck thing staying upright and not toppeling each time someone draws, that would be useful.

You could split the deck in half, then just use the first half before getting to the second one. Some people split it up into multiple drawing piles for each person. *shrugs*

[thedag]

Originally Posted by Nakiro

I think you have to have 3 cards in your hand to use Charm.
Though I do agree with you, you could play just to get rid of the cards in your hand so you get 4 more...

In the most recent rules that is true but we don't have those. We play with the rules we have so one card is all a wizard needs to charm but with the new rules it would balance out better.

[Gamer234]

It's always better to go with the most updated rules. They were changed for a reason ;)

Also, if you allow someone to draw cards every turn they have none, it lessens the impact of Bad Stuff that forces you to discard your hand.

[Nerftw]

Originally Posted by Gamer234

It's always better to go with the most updated rules. They were changed for a reason ;)

Not really. Using rules that are different than what the card text says just leads to confusion. Especially when they're using all those house rules already.

[thedag]

Originally Posted by Gamer234

It's always better to go with the most updated rules. They were changed for a reason ;)

Also, if you allow someone to draw cards every turn they have none, it lessens the impact of Bad Stuff that forces you to discard your hand.

We follow the official advice which is to use the rules we have to save problems of confusion.

I also don't see a problem with people losing their entire hand. How is that different to being killed and losing everything you have on the table as well as your hand? Are you going to suggest next that we make a rule to lessen the impact of death? I think the game is reasonably well balanced. The good feature about new rules is to use a wizard charm you must have three cards.

[Gamer234]

I didn't say there was a problem with people losing their entire hand...I said just the opposite. If you always allow someone with no cards to draw new ones on their turn, then it's LESS of a bad thing to be forced to discard your hand. That's why I wouldn't add that house rule.

[Techno-Man]

Originally Posted by Gamer234

I didn't say there was a problem with people losing their entire hand...I said just the opposite. If you always allow someone with no cards to draw new ones on their turn, then it's LESS of a bad thing to be forced to discard your hand. That's why I wouldn't add that house rule.

While I understand that much, the house rule came from a situation where a player was left with absolutely no hand for a record of seven consecutive turns, due to getting nothing but monsters that he could not fight. It became unfun for the player, so we implemented the house rule.

Discarding your hand is still bad though: You might have some good cards in there that you dont want to lose, but do.