Played through Munchkin Bites tonight. A worthy addition to the Munchkin series. If you're unfamiliar with the Munchkin games they're card based games that, to an extent, emulate a role-playing game. You try to get your character to level ten by defeating monsters and picking up treasure. You also do your best to prevent the other players from accomplishing the same tasks. You can work together, stab each other in the back, go it alone - it's up to you. The cards are all humorous parodies of whatever genre the particular Munchkin game is focusing on: the original Munchkin takes on fantasy games, Star Munchkin goes after sci-fi films/tv shows, Munchkin Fu tackles the kung fu world and Munchkin Bites parodies horror films. The game is all about humor and getting the other player before they get you. So if you tend to take gaming too seriously, you should probably stay away as several of the cards will reduce you to tears if you're not careful. A game tends to start off nicely enough as the other players are more than willing to help in an effort to boost their own chances at gaining levels, but once people get closer to the magical 10th level the vicious cards come out and it's all about taking everybody else down.
Switching gears, we watched House last night (the new medical show on Fox, not the great cheesy horror flick from the 80s). It was quite nice. House himself reminds me of Perry from Scrubs with a little less restraint. I plan on checking it out again.
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