Fist Fight over Yu Gi Oh! Cards! Oh my!

[marasbaras]

I've never had a Spy Trapper work.

I have seen a guy get nailed with a Super Germ and a Nuclear Meltdown during the initial secrets round. He "got" to retaliate before even the first normal card was played. Hehe.

[Andara Bledin]

Insane. Too bad cards are such good money for game stores.

We played Flying Buffalo's Nuclear War (with ALL of the expansions). Far more fun.

Mmm.... We call the full expansion Nuke War, Nuclear Proliferation.

All of the Munchkin games are a lot of fun, but you really need at least three people to have a good session. It can be interesting when you get into mixing decks on those. Very strange.

Another great little game is SPANC (2-4 players) which is, alas, out of print and difficult to find. The name stands for Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls. Art by Phil Foglio! yay

Another fun game, and a CCG, is XXXenophile, but it's adults only. One of the rules sets includes a designation of "exhibitionist" on the cards and involves the removal of clothing! All of the Foglio fans here should recognize the name, since it is based (loosely) on his comic series. Most of the cards are terrible puns, such as Count Pointercount, the Unnatural Axe, and the Chick Magnet.

My first CCG was Jihad, which was renamed to Vampire: The Masquerade to be more PC. Unfortunately, with most CCGs, once it's discovered that you're a sneaky bint who can get her prey to help kill her predators, you end up losing quickly all the time. But when it takes the rest of the group ganging up on you to take you out first, that's just confirmation that you're bad-ass.

My favorite ever CCG was Mythos, which is a Cthulhu-based CCG. The best part about that game is that you got to set what goals you wanted to work towards, and then you could conceivably ignore the rest of the players and win, or you could make a point of messing with all the others and win by driving everyone else insane. Good stuff, that.

My best "fight over a CCG" tale is from my local gaming convention. We don't really know what actually happened. We just have the aftermath to go on. Picture a small room that was designated for use as a CCG room. What was found by the convention security was a massive number (easily hundreds) of scattered M:tG cards (mostly lands, aka almost completely worthless but vital to play) and a heavy marble table that had been broken in half. I can't even imagine what kind of stress they had to put on that poor table to do that to it.

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[Gurndigarn]

se. Though it was a little more complicated, I really liked BattleTech.

I just picked up the basic BattleTech board game for my son, who was trying to design a game that looked so much like it that I had to say "here, this is what someone else came up with" to him. (But damn, those rules could have used a bit of editing, an index, and a lot less "and the real rules are super cool".)

I've never had a Spy Trapper work.

Nyaaaaah! I've even managed to blow up the solar system once!

I have seen a guy get nailed with a Super Germ and a Nuclear Meltdown during the initial secrets round. He "got" to retaliate before even the first normal card was played. Hehe.

It's been a while since I played, but don't initially drawn secrets get reshuffled?

I saw a guy propogandad out of the game before he got to play a card. No final strike for him.

[Dreamstalker]

Have things died down in the M:TG and related areas so that people no longer buy three boxes at a time?

The game store around here doesn't sell full MtG boxes except as preorders, so not sure in that arena.

A lot of D&D minis players buy full cases of each set. I just get a handful of boosters and trade for the ones I want/need.

[marasbaras]

The secrets just go into the discard pile ...it was just that one guy got "lucky".

We had the base Nuclear War, Nuclear Escalation, AND Nuclear Proliferation. PLUS 25+ of the little expansion packs. Our games were chaos. It was great.

One guy even managed to drop a 200 megaton warhead on an MX once ... oh, the damage was amazing. 180+ million.

[CaroPhoenix]

The HeroClix crowd likes to buy blocks of boxes. (A block is 10 boxes together).

Normally the Yu Gi Oh! players are all really sweet kids. But sometimes you get a$$hole$. Oh well. Both "L" and "J" can be scary so hopefully everything is okies.

[Tuxian]

I'm in a local gaming group, about 5 or 6 of us, that loves to get together and play wacky, tripped out games. We love Munchkin, and between us we have all the versions and expansions. Yes, all of them. Munchkin, Unnatural Axe, Clerical Error, Need for Steed, De-Ranged, Star Munchkin and Attack of the Clowns, Munchkin Fu anf Fu 2 Monkey Business, Munchkin Bites and Bites 2: Pants Macabre, Munchkin Chthulu and both expansions, Super Munchkin and The Narrow S Cape, Munchkin Impossible, The Good The Bad and the Munchkin, and Munchkin Blender. And yes, we have mixed the whole shebang together for one uber-epic blender game. The decks were like... 2 feet tall. >.>

Arkham Horror (a board game based on Call of Chthulu) is a new one for us, having only played it twice, but we love it. It takes a long time to set up, but once you get the hang of it, it's not so bad. And once the game gets rolling, it can get exciting really quickly. Lemme say this: There's nothing quite as exciting as racing to seal that final portal when there's only one spot left on the Doom Track before the Ancient One wakes up.

Other games that grace our play table are Survival of the Witless, Kill Doctor Lucky, Samurai and Katana, Risk 2210 AD, Civilization the Boardgame, Omega Virus, and a bunch of others that slip my mind at the time. If you want cheap, lasting entertainment, go check out CheapAss Games. They sell their games for like, $5, and they such incredible games to play.

[CaroPhoenix]

Tuxian - you might have all the Munchkins known to man, but ... do you have the munchkin dice?

[Tuxian]

Tuxian - you might have all the Munchkins known to man, but ... do you have the munchkin dice?

Yes, yes we do. And I also own the Munchkin d20 sourcebooks. Good for a laugh, those are.

[Geek King]

I'm in a local gaming group, about 5 or 6 of us, that loves to get together and play wacky, tripped out games. We love Munchkin, and between us we have all the versions and expansions. Yes, all of them. Munchkin, Unnatural Axe, Clerical Error, Need for Steed, De-Ranged, Star Munchkin and Attack of the Clowns, Munchkin Fu anf Fu 2 Monkey Business, Munchkin Bites and Bites 2: Pants Macabre, Munchkin Chthulu and both expansions, Super Munchkin and The Narrow S Cape, Munchkin Impossible, The Good The Bad and the Munchkin, and Munchkin Blender. And yes, we have mixed the whole shebang together for one uber-epic blender game. The decks were like... 2 feet tall. >.>

We do this too, but our group has two house rulesets that we use, depending on what we feel like, to keep the deck size under control.

1) Munchkin TORG: Each player gets a different set. You only draw from that set, or the Blender deck. Steals and "take the top discards" can be used on any applicable card deck, though.

2) Munchkin Rifts: Decks are separated into the different sets, and you draw from the whichever set you like. If you draw multiple cards, you can take from multiple sets on one draw. Seperate piles for the discards too, so take the top discard can be used on any discard pile.

We've also played Munchkin Blender with 15-20 people. Far too much fun when everyone is piling on that possible last monster to make him unbeatable.

[CaroPhoenix]

I found, right next to the box of Arkham Horror, a game called "Forbidden Words" (at least that's what I think it's called). I read the back - it's just like the game Quiddler (which is Scrabble but with cards) but with "Forbidden Words", you have Cthulhu art on the cards! I'm going to buy it! (I get a 20% discount because I work there. ).

[Andara Bledin]

Yes, yes we do. And I also own the Munchkin d20 sourcebooks. Good for a laugh, those are.

Do you have a personally signed Munchkin t-shirt so you can start out the opposite gender if you feel like?

Steve Jackson was guest of honor at the most recent convention. We had MiBs all over the place. fnord

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[Ironclad Alibi]

I have the first 8 Munchkin games (including the misprinted Clerical Errata), and the miniatures (yet to be painted). One time another player went up against the "3872 Orcs" monster card. In the true spirit of the game, and according to the rules since it was my deck, after he defeated the monster I said, "Great, only 3871 Orcs to go." He was not happy, but accepted his fate.

[Bagga]

So, instead of being reviled by the reactionary press fro beeing teenagers plotting nasty INDIVIDUAL murders because we are negatively influend by the Grand Theft Auto games, readers here are closet world leaders secrectly gloating over mountains of megadeaths?

Ban all card games I say, they are EVIL!

(relax, I''m just kidding - I have played D&D and similar games since the VERY early 80s, and currently have over 400 total days played in WoW. 400 days played isn't bad at all, since I only started playing about 750 elapsed days ago...)

[Andara Bledin]

(relax, I''m just kidding - I have played D&D and similar games since the VERY early 80s, and currently have over 400 total days played in WoW. 400 days played isn't bad at all, since I only started playing about 750 elapsed days ago...)

Is there a way to check total elapsed playtime on all characters, or only for one at a time?

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