Food allergy munchkin

[jack]

I assume everyone's familiar with the card game Munchkin? Guess which veizla-negotiating star-munchkin-buying geek is proposing "Food allergy munchkin", Munchkin meets Zombie Fast Food!?

Classes are eg:
Non-vegetarian: able to eat meat dishes, may not accept help from vegetarians
Not-coeliac: able to eat wheat dishes, may not accept help from anyone
Gourmet: May always run away, but [extra bad stuff] if caught
Everyone starts off as allergic to most things and thin
Beating a monster means you gain one level = unit of weight, and win when you're replete
Monsters are meals, level represents how much you might not want to eat it. Eg
Gaint snails, level 13
Hot vindaloo, level 8
Steak and chips, level 3
Mint, level 1
Weapons are implements, garnishes, etc. Eg:
Fork: +1 (1 hand)
Knife: +1 (1 hand)
Gumption to drink directly from the plate: +3 (2 hands)
Any number of condiments: +1 each, 1 hand total.
One-offs are other actions, eg:
Tomato ketchup: play once, food gets +2 against gourmet, or -2 against anyone else
Food fight: play once when another player kicks down a door, they have to eat a card from your hand
Fumblefingers: Drop a one handed item

Unfortunately we seem to have achieved the "Too realistic to be fun" category :) But it's a nice idea when I get round to writing some extra munchkin cards :)

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

That sounds great, I'd draw the pictures :D

[calamarain.livejournal.com]

Plausible, and disturbingly simple.

I might be interested in contributings cards :) If you're not so worried about game balance (e.g. Munchkin) it would be quite easy to make too.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I'll actually do it. It would be a novel idea, but unless it's both funny and fun to play I don't know if it's worth going to the trouble of making it, and balancing a munchkin game is a solved problem.

But it gave me goosebumps how good the match was. You don't need to tweak the framework at all, just specify the cards. The only problem is that it's sort of hard to combine them with regular munchkin:

* Can I combine a fork with a banaramalaser?
* Does ketchup work for samurai?
* Does "ability to drink from the plate" grant +3 against, eg. trolls? How? :)

OTOH, I do have a hankering to play Munchkin. I was inviting some friends over for munchkin/mao on sunday, do you think I should mention it on #dc?