Munchkin Quest 2: Looking for Trouble
Munchkin Quest 2: Looking for Trouble Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Optional Rule: Faster Player Turns
In game sessions with more than four players, or games with players who are new to Munchkin Quest, individual player turns run faster if all players start the game with two Move. Game setup and play is otherwise unchanged.
Glossary Additions
Words in bold italic are keywords.
Line of Sight (LOS) – I could see you right now if it wasn't for that pesky door in the way. Would you please open it for me? See p. 2.
Set Icon – A symbol to show what expansion a card or room came from.
To Dodge – The hoops you have to jump through to escape a trap. See p. 2.
Trap – A nasty surprise hiding in some rooms. Dodge it if you can! See p. 2.
Un-Big – A keyword found on item enhancers to de-bigify Big items, making once Big Items Non-Big. Got that?
New Rules
Male and Female Icons
The male and female symbols represent . . . wait for it . . . male and female Munchkins. A green male symbol means the room is good for males. A green female symbol means the room is good for females. Red, of course, means the room is bad.
(Icon panel: a green male symbol labelled "Male" above a green female symbol labelled "Female".)
Junky Passageways
This is a new kind of link. It is treated as a passageway, but its Move cost is 2.
(Link panel: "Link – Junky Passageway", showing a Movement Cost marker of 2.)
When a munchkin walks through the junk, he cannot help slowing down to look . . . Roll a die and take that many hundred gold. Search bonuses and penalties affect this roll. If you find 400 or more gold, flip the link. It's now an open passageway.
Munchkins with Flight power may choose to treat a junky passageway as open and pay only 1 to move. In that case, they find no gold.
Monsters ignore the junk and pass through normally.
If any reference to passageways does not specify Open or Junky, it applies to all kinds of passageways.
"The icon for this set is" – (the set icon is a spiked cannon, used as the Set Icon described in the Glossary Additions).
- We know this is a terrible problem for most of you. We also believe in the Tooth Fairy.
Components
- 27 Links. Mix these with the links from the base game.
- 10 Move Tokens. Double-sided, red and green.
- 12 Health Tokens. Double-sided, red and black.
- 17 Gold Pieces.
- 13 Monster Standies. Three Tiny, four Small, four more or less human-sized, and two Huge.
- 100 Cards, divided into three different decks (Monster, Deus Ex, and Treasure). Shuffle these with the appropriate decks from the base game.
- Two Level Counters. Orange and Purple.
- Six Search Result Tokens. Double-sided: Ransacked and Looted Out. Three pairs.
- Six Dropped Item Tokens. Three pairs.
- Two Munchkins and Six Bases. Orange and Purple. Two for each new player color.
- Four Dice. Two for each new player color.
- Nine Room Tiles. Mix these with the room tiles from the base game.
Trap Cards
Traps are found in the Monster deck. Whenever a trap is drawn, it affects every munchkin in the room at that moment.
Each Trap card has its own Dodge rule. Some can't be dodged at all. Others can be dodged with a successful die roll.
If you fail to dodge a trap, it will affect you. The cards you possess may help you against some traps – for instance, if you have a Sword, you can cut yourself down from the Noose Trap.
If a trap doesn't affect you (because you were immune, because you had a good item, because you dodged, whatever), you may immediately draw a DxM card.
You may not use potions, scrolls, etc., to get away from traps unless they specifically mention traps. If a Curse is played after a Trap card comes up, the Trap is resolved first and then the Curse.
After the trap effects are resolved, the main player must then draw another Monster card (unless, of course, the trap killed the main player, ending the combat and his turn). It is possible to encounter a whole series of traps. But if you survive, you'll have a lot of DxMs . . .
Trap Card diagram: labelled parts are Set Icon, Name (the example card is the Noose Trap), Cards that help you, Dodge Rule, and Effect of Failure. The example card's Dodge Rule reads "To dodge: Roll a 6 on the d6." and its Effect of Failure reads "Each munchkin who fails to dodge or escape has -5 on this combat." Its Cards that help you text reads "If you are carrying a Sword, or wearing the Flaming Armor, you escape immediately."
Wandering Traps
If someone plays a Wandering Monster card on you, and the next Monster card turns out to be a trap, you must try to dodge that trap immediately, before the monster fight continues. After the trap is resolved, you draw the next Monster card and add it to the battle, as usual.
If for any other reason you draw a Monster card for a room that you are not entering yourself, and it is a Trap, just discard it and draw again.
Weird Case Rule
If you fail to dodge a trap, and its effect is a penalty in the following combat, but you are not IN that combat (merely hanging around the room), the trap has no effect in your own next combat. But you don't get a DxM.
Die Roll Reminder
Remember that die-roll-modifying cards only affect the d6 unless they specify otherwise. So cards that give you a die-roll penalty don't let you weasel out of Traps. The Leperchaun, for instance, doesn't help you make your d10 rolls . . . to dodge Traps, or for any other reason.
Trap Example: Munchkin Babe Meets Too Many Traps
It's Munchkin Babe's turn. Igor plays Oh, Dear, a Trap! on her. It's the Arrow Trap.
Munchkin Babe rolls to dodge, fails, takes a hit.
Munchkin Babe draws her Monster card. It's the Falling Rock Trap.
Munchkin Babe rolls to dodge the rock, succeeds, gets a DxM.
Munchkin Babe draws another Monster card. It's a monster.
Galadrool plays Wandering Monster. That card says "Draw the top card from the Monster deck and add it to the combat."
It's the Axe Trap. Per the rules above, Munchkin Babe must now deal with THIS trap before she continues her fight.
Munchkin Babe fails her roll. She has no headgear, so ouchie. Another hit.
Munchkin Babe draws a replacement Monster card. Fortunately, it's not a trap.
Munchkin Babe fights her two monsters, wins, and takes her loot. But she picked up two hits from the Traps.
Line of Sight
At least one card in this set mentions Line of Sight. We might mention it again sometime.
Line of Sight (LOS) between two rooms is a straight line measured from the center of one room to the center of the other. LOS is only blocked by doors and walls. It is not blocked by munchkins, monsters, dropped items, gold coins, or any other object in the rooms. It is also not blocked by the intervening rooms themselves, even if the room art makes you SURE that line of sight ought to be blocked. For instance, you can trace LOS through the Twisty Tunnel.
Line of Sight Example: In the diagram at right, LOS cannot be traced from room 1 to room 2 (a door blocks the way). LOS can be traced from room 1 to room 3, room 2 to room 4, and room 3 to room 4.
(Diagram: rooms 1 and 2 across the top, rooms 3 and 4 across the bottom, with passages between 1 and 2, 1 and 3, 2 and 4, and 3 and 4. The door blocking LOS between rooms 1 and 2 is the one shown on the top passage.)