Last night we played some new games.  Munchkin Zombies and Zombie Fluxx.  I have played Munchkin Zombies, with friends, in the past and it was a blast.  All of them are gamers, though, and my two partners for these games were not.

I have a soft spot for zombies.  Those lovingly dumb and scary zombies never cease to amuse me.  Games, TV, Movies, if they have zombies in them, I am interested.

Both of these games were great fun.  Having played the original Munchkin with my gamer friends, and enjoying it, Munchkin Zombies was pretty simple to learn and play.  Liking the Munchkin system, adding zombies was a total plus.

My partners tonight, who had never played Munchkin before and never played role-playing games, the experience was quite different.  The play seemed restricted, and I found myself explaining things that would be familiar to a role-playing gamer.  Also I noticed that this frustrated my non-gaming partners a lot.  They got the hang of it by the second game but both said the game made them angry.  That seems fair, Munchkin really does a great job at mocking role-playing games so it seems fair that the humer is lost with non-gamers. Continue reading →