Project Update: A deeper look at Munchkin Bosses!
Hello everyone!
Last week, we explored Steve and John’s favorites from the 50 all-new cards found only in Munchkin Big Box. This week, we will be sharing some of the new art from Munchkin Bosses, a mini-expansion developed to make monsters more challenging than ever before.
When I asked John which card he remembers the most from Bosses, he didn’t come back with a card, but the card back! Here is what he had to say:
“Honestly, my favorite here is the card back for the set - the Bullrog sitting at its desk.”
We think you'll be excited to see the rest of John’s illustrations on the Bosses cards!
I also had a chance to catch up with Devin Lewis. If you don’t know Devin, he has been helping design and add the humor you know and love to Munchkin for over 10 years. Devin worked closely with Andrew Hackard in the early stages of designing Bosses, and here is what he had to share about designing this expansion.
"I initially pitched Andrew to make a set of really high-level monsters – something like The Biggest Squid Ever and Chicken on Your Planet, which are truly terrible names I made up on the spot. He didn’t immediately hate the idea, which was very Andrew of him, so we got into the details of how it would work and why I thought it was necessary as well as a good addition to the game.
"We went back and forth for a week or two and settled on ideas that would eventually end up in Bosses. The base concept wasn’t new – we had a boss monster fight as part of Munchkin Quest, which meant we didn’t have to reinvent the huge, angry wheel. We just had to adapt it, which Andrew did quite handily.
"I very much wanted you to have to fight a boss to win. Getting to level 10 wouldn’t have been enough, but that was just Munchkin Quest over again, so we didn’t do that. What we did do, however, was make a great little addition to the game, and we did it in such a way that it can easily be added to any Munchkin set and still function without adding "wrong" monsters."
Tell us on social media if you win the game by killing the boss!
Think you're munchkin enough to take on the boss monsters? Prove it with Munchkin Bosses!
- Darryll
- Darryll
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