Munchkin, the legendary card sport from Steve Jackson Video games, illustrated by John Kovalic, launched in 2001 and is a parody of roleplaying sport tropes. It has been expanded many instances with units based mostly on varied themes from Cthulhu to Marvel to Rick and Morty, with varied extra basic units based mostly on zombie, pirates, vampires, and extra. As well as, there have been varied boardgames, it’ gained awards, and bought second version this yr. Briefly, it is iconic.
And now… it may a roleplaying sport. After parodying TTRPGs for all these years, it is now going to be one. Lynnvander Studios has teamed by with Steve Jackson Video games to make a 5.5E-powered tabletop roleplaying sport called–appropriately–“Munchkin® 5.5E RPG“.
Lynnvander Studios has made video games based mostly on Buffy, Physician Who, Star Trek, Terminator, Shadowrun, and extra.
It’s going to be powered by the D&D 5.5E system, and include all of the basic Munchkin monsters, gadgets, and so forth. The sport’s Munchkin 5.5e Ye Olde Ruleboook is an journey and sourcebook for D&D. The Deadliest Dungeon is an accompanying ebook through which gamers can “struggle new monsters, set off new and attention-grabbing traps, and hoarde helpful loot.”
The rulebook comprises new subclasses lik the Oath of the Killjoy Paladin and the Faculty of Nihilism Bard, 4 new species (considered one of which is the Mimic!), feats, spells, magic gadgets, the works. There’s additionally a brand new subsystem they’re calling the “Pun-spiration” system.
From the appears of the Backerkit pre-launch web page, there’s additionally a ton of add-ons, together with playing cards, a rubber duck, standees, map packs, and extra. Plus an early hen silver coin. The crowdfunder launches in October.
