Well we didn’t do Dungeons and Dragons this weekend. With just 2 of the 5 players making it, it was deemed just unfeasible. So we did in fact play Munchkin Cthulhu all night with a break to watch a Night At the Museum. Which was better than I thought it was going to be. And it’s pretty amazing just how short people are…
I also found out why I never seem to win at Munchkin. Everyone else cheats like a sumbitch. These people are playing cards when they shouldn’t, holding like 8-10 cards in their hand which is just supposed to hold 5 at a time. This goes a long way to explain why my wins can be numbered on two fingers out of probably 30+ games in the last few months. Sheer statistics (Munchkin is extremely luck oriented with a tiny bit of skill involved) dictated I should have won 3 or 4 times what I did. Now granted cheating is not only allowed but even encouraged in the rules but idiot me thought that was hyperbole and played well within the rules.
So from now on every time I catch someone cheating I’m going to hit them with a brick. And not one of those fluffy throw it at the tv and watch it bounce off as you get rid of some id based anger.
Cthulhu is also the first with some truly significant additions based on cards in the rules. Actually playing it made me want to start a Cthulhu based campaign (which came in a d20 flavor which is no longer publishes as well as a collectible card game). I’m an old hand with Lovecraft and familiar with the ‘world’ as it were. And of course I have Arkham Horror as well. Isn’t Wikipedia great for putting in random links in bullshit articles? Kinda like images.google.com works for snagging a quick image to embed in each one of these. 
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