Steve Jackson Games ' main product line, in terms of sales, is the Munchkin card game, followed by the role-playing system GURPS.

* Munchkin ( role-playing games )

* Munchkin ( role-playing games )

Munchkin is a dedicated deck card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic, that has a humorous take on role-playing games, based on the concept of munchkins ( immature role-players, playing " to win ").

* There are two role-playing games, both of which use the d20 System based on the Munchkin and Star Munchkin card games.

# REDIRECT Munchkin ( role-playing games )

In gaming, a Munchkin is a player who plays what is intended to be a non-competitive game ( usually a role-playing game ) in an aggressively competitive manner.

* Star Munchkin ( role-playing game )

* Munchkin Quest, a boardgame variation of the Munchkin card games

* Fantasy games catgirl characters include Magic: The Gatherings Mirri and Purraj, and the catgirl monster in the d20 Munchkin Monster Manual.

The phenomenon was parodied in the book The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming, which in turn spun off the popular Munchkin series of dedicated deck card games.

He designed many of the games published by SJ Games, such as Car Wars, GURPS, Munchkin and many others.

Munchkin is cartridge number 38 in the official Magnavox / Philips line of games for the Philips Videopac.

* Epic Munchkin is a set of rules for playing up to level 20 for all the Munchkin games.

Munchkin has also spawned a couple of games outside the card game universe.

He has illustrated board and card games for several companies, including Steve Jackson Games ( notably the Munchkin card game plus its many expansions and derivatives and Chez Geek and its derivatives ), Cumberland Games & Diversions ( Pokéthulhu ), and the third edition of Fantasy Flight Games's Mag Blast.

* Nels P. Nelson ( 1918 – 1994 ), actor, Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz

Most significantly, in the musical, Glinda unwittingly sets into motion the events that lead to the Munchkin Boq becoming the Tin Woodman ( which only happens in this musical ), and Elphaba's sister Nessarose being killed by Dorothy Gale's farmhouse.

Oz is roughly rectangular in shape, and divided along the diagonals into four countries: Munchkin Country ( but commonly referred to as ' Munchkinland ' in adaptations ) in the East, Winkie Country ( called " The Vinkus " in Gregory Maguire's Wicked and its sequel Son of a Witch ) in the West ( sometimes West and East are reversed on maps of Oz, see West and East below ), Gillikin Country in the North, and Quadling Country in the South.

* Mickey Carroll ( 1919 – 2009 ), Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz film

* Munchkin ( cat ), a breed of cat characterised by unusually short legs

* Munchkin ( card game ), a card game by Steve Jackson Games that satirizes the player type

Colvig worked for not only the Disney studio, but also the Warner Bros. animation studio, Fleischer Studios ( Bluto, Gabby ), and MGM, where he voiced a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz.

** The Munchkin RPG is an extended parody of Dungeons & Dragons: the latter has " cantrip " spells, the former has, among others, " can trip " ( foils pursuers with preserved foodstuffs ), " can't rip " ( reinforces fabrics ) and " Kant trip " ( induces hallucinatory deontology ).

Elphaba becomes friends with a Munchkin boy named Boq ( son of Bfee, the Mayor of Rush Margins, which was the town in which Elphaba was born ), who develops a crush on Galinda.

Ojo the Unlucky is a Munchkin boy who, devoted to life with his uncle Unc Nunkie in the wilderness but on the verge of starvation, goes to see a neighboring " magician " and old friend of Unc ’ s, Dr. Pipt.

After escaping that ordeal, Woot, the Tin Woodman as a tin owl, the Scarecrow as a straw-stuffed bear, and Polychrome as a canary turn south into the Munchkin Country and, with Polychrome's magic, reverse a spell cast on Tommy Kwikstep, a messenger boy who thoughtlessly wished himself twenty legs.

Boq was an unwanted but ardent suitor that Glinda foisted upon Nessarose, the Munchkin Governor's daughter, who became so attached to him that she stripped the Munchkins of their rights just to keep Boq with her ( thus earning the title " Wicked Witch of the East ").

The Munchkin Country is ruled by a king, later identified as Cheeriobed, who is revealed to be married to the Good Witch of the North, who, a spell broken, abdicates leadership of the Gillikin Country to Joe King and Queen Hyacinth of Up Town.

She was originally brought to life by a magician who lived in the Munchkin Country named Dr. Pipt by means of his Powder of Life formula to be a servant for his wife.

Elly Annie Schneider ( July 23, 1914-September 6, 2004 ) was an actress who played one of the Munchkin villagers in The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

In Baum's novel, Boq is a rich Munchkin who provides shelter for Dorothy on her journey to the Emerald City.

He is also the one who informs her that only witches and sorceresses wear white, and that combined with Munchkin blue in her gingham dress, this implies to them that she is a friendly witch.

In Wicked, Boq is a Munchkin who attends Shiz University with Elphaba and Galinda ( who would grow up to become The Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch respectively ).

Ojo is a Munchkin who lived with his uncle, Unc Nunkie in the Blue Forest, a remote location in the north of the Munchkin Country.

In 1957, he was one of the 16 charter members who co-founded the Munchkin Convention of the International Wizard of Oz Club.

The pair meet up with Realbad, the leader of a group of bandits, who caries a secret that is connected to the Munchkin boy and his habitually closemouthed Unc Nunkie.

Munchkin plays much like Pac-Man, with the following key differences:

* Munchkin RPG, a series of D20 supplements based on the Munchkin card game.

In the Steve Jackson Games card game Munchkin, there is a card called " Dwarf Tossing ".

In the game Munchkin ( card game ) ( expansion 3 " Clerical Erors ") the Vorpal Blade is a treasure card.

He also once entered himself in a race, driving the infamous " Munchkin " midget chassis, as " Mikey Fedorcak Jr ." after buying the Munchkin from Mike Fedorcak during a card game.

For example, the parody game Munchkin is about " the essence of the dungeon experience … Kill the monsters, steal the treasure, stab your buddy.

Munchkin, a cartridge for the Odyssey2 video game console

Designed and programmed by Ed Averett, Munchkin is very heavily based on Namco's 1980 arcade game Pac-Man, but not a direct clone.

Atari was exclusively licensed to produce the first play-at-home version of Pac-Man, but Munchkin hit store shelves in 1981, a year before Atari's game was ready.

* Compared with the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man, Munchkin has fewer objects on the game board but renders them with more color and animation.

* Munchkin Booty, the ninth standalone game, focuses on pirates and was released in September 2008.

Also included are 14 cards for the original Munchkin ( Race / Class modifiers, most notably ) and rules for rolling a Munchkin die for random game benefits.

** The Star Munchkin Role Playing Game is one book, and includes rules for spaceship design and a new class not seen in the card game, the Farce K ' nigit.

* Munchkin Quest is a board game / RPG based on the original Munchkin card game which contains several different items, monsters, and references to it.