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| - [Seen only as a pair of hands, uncredited but likely Jerry Maren who portrays Lower Gemini, Episode #136: "Hello, Columbus - Goodbye, America.]
- Origin: The Wizard of Oz movie about a girl who tempts fate by taking drugs and traveling to a world far from her safe home in Christian Kansas, which then became a book about The Gold Standard Image:WWTS1sted1.png "Munchkin"is a part of Wikiality.com's dictionary, "Watch What You Say". For the full dictionary, click .
- Munchkin sta ai giochi di ruolo come Nonciclopedia sta al mondo. Una marea di cazzate buttate lì a caso e prive di qualsivoglia significato senza il minimo rispetto per niente e nessuno, nessuno, NESSUNO PUO' SALVARSI Un modo divertente e costruttivo per fare della divertente e costruttiva ironia su argomenti divertenti e costruttivi. Soprattutto costruttivi. E nel pieno rispetto dei diritti d'autore, sia chiaro.
- Munchkin is published by Boom! Studios under the Boom! Box imprint. Price per issue is $3.99.
- The Munchkin is an Awakened relative of the spider monkey (genus Ateles), and resembles a short hominid about 0.9 meters tall. It has sharp teeth with a broad jaw, and long powerful limbs in proportion to its body. They are bipedal, and move rapidly through trees through brachiation. They have a vestigial tail.
- A munchkin is an immature player, to whom is ascribed every vice of the egoistic, unsophisticated gamer. The term comes to us from The Wizard of Oz, in which a munchkin is a short person from a faraway land. The older generation of wargamers applied the term to younger, perhaps very young, players who invaded the wargaming hobby with their improvisational, powergaming attitudes, Monty Haul style campaigns, and fascination with their own characters. In short, the original munchkins eventually came to dominate the RPG world with their interest in theatrics, heroic PCs, fun-oriented play style and interest in elaborate backstories. The term carried forward a generation, and is still used to label those whose gaming style is deemed, on whatever basis, to be immature and inferior.
- The Munchkin is the Tabletop RPG player who plays the game to "win", at any cost, even if that isn't the point of the game. Perhaps the most ridiculed Player Archetype of all time, this player is rarely interested in the story behind the game. Indeed, his characters are little more than extensions of his own personality, or whatever personality would give him the most plusses. Examples of Munchkin include:
- The Munchkin (Simiidiabolus hibernicus) is an Awakened relative of the spider monkey (genus Ateles), and resembles a short hominid about 0.9 meters tall. It has sharp teeth with a broad jaw, and long powerful limbs in proportion to its body. They are bipedal, and move rapidly through trees through brachiation. They have a vestigial tail.
- The Munchkin is a relatively new breed created by a mutation that causes achondroplasia, or more likely hypochondroplasia as the skull size is unaffected, resulting in cats with abnormally short legs. However, the shortness of their legs do not seem to interfere with their running and leaping. The breed originated in 1983 when Sandra Hochenedel found an extremely short-legged black cat living under a trailer in Louisiana. This cat, named Blackberry, was pregnant and half of her kittens were born short-legged. One of Blackberry's kittens, a tomcat named Toulouse, became the father of a breeding program that established the breed in North America.
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| - [Seen only as a pair of hands, uncredited but likely Jerry Maren who portrays Lower Gemini, Episode #136: "Hello, Columbus - Goodbye, America.]
- Origin: The Wizard of Oz movie about a girl who tempts fate by taking drugs and traveling to a world far from her safe home in Christian Kansas, which then became a book about The Gold Standard Image:WWTS1sted1.png "Munchkin"is a part of Wikiality.com's dictionary, "Watch What You Say". For the full dictionary, click .
- Munchkin sta ai giochi di ruolo come Nonciclopedia sta al mondo. Una marea di cazzate buttate lì a caso e prive di qualsivoglia significato senza il minimo rispetto per niente e nessuno, nessuno, NESSUNO PUO' SALVARSI Un modo divertente e costruttivo per fare della divertente e costruttiva ironia su argomenti divertenti e costruttivi. Soprattutto costruttivi. E nel pieno rispetto dei diritti d'autore, sia chiaro.
- The Munchkin (Simiidiabolus hibernicus) is an Awakened relative of the spider monkey (genus Ateles), and resembles a short hominid about 0.9 meters tall. It has sharp teeth with a broad jaw, and long powerful limbs in proportion to its body. They are bipedal, and move rapidly through trees through brachiation. They have a vestigial tail. Most munchkins are solitary hunters, although they have been known to form small social groups of up to four members. They are fast-moving predators that feed on small mammals and birds. Munchkins reportedly also have limited forms of communication and rudimentary language skills. They are tool-users, similar to chimpanzees in the wild. The researcher Dr. Derek Maclean of Berkeley claims to have studied a group of munchkins in captivity, and trained them for various tasks. There are rumors that the Munchkin was artificially engineered. Munchkins have an unusual dietary requirement of the metal Molybdenum. They are found in wooded areas around the Great Lakes of North America.
- The Munchkin is the Tabletop RPG player who plays the game to "win", at any cost, even if that isn't the point of the game. Perhaps the most ridiculed Player Archetype of all time, this player is rarely interested in the story behind the game. Indeed, his characters are little more than extensions of his own personality, or whatever personality would give him the most plusses. He sees fighting monsters and solving puzzles only as a means toward more power, more gold, more stuff, more plusses. A Munchkin is not satisfied until he can kill a god with his +25 Dancing Holy Vorpal Sword of Flame. On a Critical Failure. Of course, the combat mechanics is only the most obvious avenue. Munchkins try to hunt for "XP for roleplaying" by being over-the-top dramatic, and Kossuth help you if the game uses Ritual Magic -- everything will stop until the word salad cooked up by the Munchkin is resolved. Anything that gives more plusses will be used and abused. The Munchkin's ambition frequently outstrips his sense of fair play. Most of the time, he looks out for number one; the other players are little more than minor inconveniences to him, or obstacles on his path to ultimate power. As such, the Munchkin may engage in one or more of these irritating personas:
* Ninja Looter: Don't expect a Munchkin to share the spoils of an adventure equally -- if he can't take the lion's share, he'll try to take the best stuff first.
* Gamebuster: Min-Maxing taken to its upper limit. Any Munchkin character of this type is nothing more than a collection of 'kewl powers', taken for no logical in-story reason other than their combat effectiveness. Often includes blatant Game Breaker abilities and power combinations that were never meant to be. Call him out on this, and he'll call you a Scrub.
* Rules Lawyer: This Munchkin disputes every Game Master ruling, and has memorized every loophole in the game manual. For some reason, he never seems to "correct" the DM when the rules as written would hurt him... The Game Master's best tactic against this guy is Rule Zero; what the DM says, goes, no matter what page 54, column 2, line 41 word 5 of the book says.
* Cheater: He never rolls where you can clearly see him, and he gets a distressing number of natural 20s. It's just his "lucky dice", he says. His character sheet comes prerolled with max stats. And he has an annoying habit of "forgetting" to write things down, like whether he's used up his spells for the day. Could this be the sort of sad, pathetic creature that would cheat at a cooperative Tabletop RPG game? (Yes.)
* Metagamer: We all metagame once in a while. After all, even if our characters don't know exactly what that orb with all the eyes is, they've got the feeling that it's dangerous and probably shouldn't be charged head-on. But this guy seems to have read (and memorized) all the monster manuals and the published adventures, and is impossible to catch off guard. Once he sees that giant green scaly thing charging him, he immediately breaks out the acid. Homebrewing is the best way to trip this fellow up.
* Psychopath: If it has stats, it's there to be killed. For this Munchkin, violence is the first, last, and only solution to every problem. Even the most zealous Real Man knows when it's not time to fight, but not this guy. He'll take up any excuse to start a fight. Munchkins are a constant source of pain and agony for the Game Master, unless he's a munchkin too, and will often be the direct cause of the Bolt of Divine Retribution, or even Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. He may be forced to employ some killer tactics just to challenge them. A more pleasant brand of munchkin may try to share his rule-bending benefits with the rest of the group. A more audacious one (a cross with The Loonie) takes advantage of his knowledge and power to do incredibly crazy things that their fellow players will be telling their children about in years to come. Sadly, a rare breed. A Player Archetypes trope, along with The Real Man, The Roleplayer, and The Loonie. Can be "Stop Having Fun!" Guys, if they leave the other players in the dust, and force them to play "Their Way." Not to be confused with the small but pleasant folks who live east of the Emerald City, nor the pleasantly-wacky card game/tabletop RPG inspired by this Player Archetype. Examples of Munchkin include:
- The Munchkin is a relatively new breed created by a mutation that causes achondroplasia, or more likely hypochondroplasia as the skull size is unaffected, resulting in cats with abnormally short legs. However, the shortness of their legs do not seem to interfere with their running and leaping. The breed originated in 1983 when Sandra Hochenedel found an extremely short-legged black cat living under a trailer in Louisiana. This cat, named Blackberry, was pregnant and half of her kittens were born short-legged. One of Blackberry's kittens, a tomcat named Toulouse, became the father of a breeding program that established the breed in North America. While a few cat registries have recognized the breed, others have not, including the FiFe, which refuses to recognize what they consider a breed based on a "genetic disease", achondroplasia. The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy likewise refuses to recognize the breed, considering this breed and others like it to be "unacceptable" because they are based on an "abnormal structure or development". The breed is also not recognized by the Cat Fanciers' Association. Among the cat fancies that recognize the breed are The International Cat Association, the Southern Africa Cat Council, and the Waratah National Cat Alliance in Australia There is controversy among breeders of pedigree cats as to what genetic mutations are abnormal and potentially disadvantageous to the cat. While several dog breeds such as Dachshunds have short legs, some critics note the higher dependence cats put on their legs for climbing ability and overall agility. Some governments consider the munchkin breed to be "malformed animals" and the deliberate breeding of them "unacceptable" because of the "genetic health problems associated with such breeding". But keepers and breeders of munchkins declare them to be "a sound breed" that is "ideal" for small homes and not particularly susceptible to health problems.
- A munchkin is an immature player, to whom is ascribed every vice of the egoistic, unsophisticated gamer. The term comes to us from The Wizard of Oz, in which a munchkin is a short person from a faraway land. The older generation of wargamers applied the term to younger, perhaps very young, players who invaded the wargaming hobby with their improvisational, powergaming attitudes, Monty Haul style campaigns, and fascination with their own characters. In short, the original munchkins eventually came to dominate the RPG world with their interest in theatrics, heroic PCs, fun-oriented play style and interest in elaborate backstories. The term carried forward a generation, and is still used to label those whose gaming style is deemed, on whatever basis, to be immature and inferior. Ironically, many younger players, joining the game through Dungeons & Dragons and other tactically oriented games, are earning the label of munchkin from older, more sophisticated gamers who like to play storytelling games in which they are immortal, inconceivably powerful, and stylishly evil characters such as vampires, wielding katanas, riding bikes, and possibly thrashing on guitars.
- Munchkin is published by Boom! Studios under the Boom! Box imprint. Price per issue is $3.99.
- The Munchkin is an Awakened relative of the spider monkey (genus Ateles), and resembles a short hominid about 0.9 meters tall. It has sharp teeth with a broad jaw, and long powerful limbs in proportion to its body. They are bipedal, and move rapidly through trees through brachiation. They have a vestigial tail. Most munchkins are solitary hunters, although they have been known to form small social groups of up to four members. They are fast-moving predators that feed on small mammals and birds. Munchkins reportedly also have limited forms of communication and rudimentary language skills. They are tool-users, similar to chimpanzees in the wild. The researcher Dr. Derek Maclean of Berkeley claims to have studied a group of munchkins in captivity, and trained them for various tasks. There are rumors that the Munchkin was artificially engineered. Munchkins have an unusual dietary requirement of the metal Molybdenum. They are found in wooded areas around the Great Lakes of North America.
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