The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming

by James 'Grim' Desborough

This humorous game features unique graphics, cartoon illustrations, sample paranoia notes and even scanned-in pizza. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556343477
• ISBN13: 9781556343476
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Hilarious book for any Munchkin fan!

I've been a fan of the D & D spoof game "Munchkin" for a long time. It's got to be one of my all-time favorites! Whenever my friends and I get together we play it, and it always ends up with everyone rolling around laughing. This book is written along the same lines (published by Steve Jackson Games I believe) and is just as funny! Anyone who has an understanding of what AD & D is like will love it, even if they have never heard of the "Munchkin" game. I had a great time reading it, and I bought it for several of my friends as birthday gifts recently! Great read, well worth the price!! Would recommend to any gamer!

Great for laughs.

if you expect to come out of this book a better person. Forget. If you want a good laugh. Then by all means get this book!

Brilliant

Having owned this book since it came out, I can heartily recommend this book.Having a lot of experience in gaming, I read through and could see where the author was coming from. Every incident he described, I had seen, every tactic in that book has been tried, and every ridiculous excuse and strategy has been done, and worked before. Side splittingly funny in itself, it is twice as damaging to your laughter muscles if you have a long experience with those annoying players who we unfondly call "munchkins"

One of my favorite gaming books, ever

When we started our Shadowrun campaign last year, the GM mentioned that he'd be watching for people who took Phobia: Man-Made Satellites. I, being a relative novice at munchkinization, asked why, and he pointed me to this book.I've actually had this for a while, but it is, by far, the single funniest book I've seen or read in years.The basic setup is pretty straightforward. There's a chapter on general munchkin strategies, and them specific strategies for fantasy, modern, sci-fi, horror, supers, and live-action games. There is also a section on dealing with munchkin players, intended for the GM. There's even a quiz to tell you how munchkin you are, and how bad your players are.Is there useful stuff in there? Depends on your definition of useful, but it's all funny, and the GM section does give somewhat useful strategies. But, it is side-splittingly funny. The first time I ever read it, my sides hurt from laughing so hard. If you get a chance, read it...it's great.