This 30-card deck of Boss cards is usable one of the cards you find is a monster, you
with any Munchkin game, plus must take that card.)
whatever expansions you want Figure out the monster’s Level
to add (we recommend including any non-Boss modifiers as
using at least one, but it’s normal, then add the base Boss
your call). modifier to the monster’s Level.
Shuffle the Boss deck If the total doesn’t reach the
and place it near the Door Boss’s minimum Level, use
and Treasure decks. Boss the minimum instead. Apply
cards are neither Doors nor any other bonuses or penalties,
Treasures and can’t be added to including those on the Boss card
your hands or examined by effects that let itself, to the modified Level.
you search through the decks or discards.
The Boss fight has special rules:
Fighting the Bosses • Once a Boss fight begin, nothing ends
At any point during the game, instead of it until one side or the other wins. No
Kicking Down the Door, you may declare cards or other abilities will dismiss the
that you want to fight a Boss. If you are Boss, move it to another player, and so on.
using the Listening at the Door “faster play” Other monsters in the same fight are not
rule, do this as the very first act on your turn, Bosses (not even if
as normal. the Boss has a Mate!)
When you call for a Boss fight, turn over and may be affected
the top card of the Boss deck. You cannot as in any other
receive a Boss from the discards unless a monster fight.
Boss card itself says to do so. Most of the • A monster that says
Boss cards are special monster enhancers. it will not fight you
These cards have both a Level modifier and ignores that instruction
a minimum Level. A few have other effects; when it is a Boss – Bosses always fight!
follow those directions. • A Boss is not vulnerable to “automatic
Once you have resolved the effects of the kill” conditions . . . you have to take it
Boss card, turn over cards from the down the hard way!
Door deck until you encounter • You must fight the Boss alone and you
a monster, discarding all the cannot be forced to accept a helper. On
non-monster cards as you go. the other hand, you can’t fight a Boss if
(Effects that let you draw from you’re suffering from a Curse or Bad Stuff
the Door discards only work if the that forces you to ask for help; you have to
top discard is a monster. Effects get rid of that effect first.
that let you “preview” the Door • If you kill the Boss, you win the game
deck work as normal, but if only immediately!
• On the other hand, if you cannot kill the monsters in the fight, Run Away from
Boss, you have proved your inferiority. them normally after dealing with the Boss.
Instead of rolling to Run Away from the
Boss, lose a level automatically. You In the unlikely event that you run out of
don’t lose a level if you are the already the Boss cards in the Boss deck, shuffle the
lowest Level or tied for lowest, because discards to create a new Boss deck.
you’re suffering enough. If there are other
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Game Design by Andrew Hackard • Illustrated by Lar deSouza
Based on Steve Jackson’s Munchkin • Development Assistance by Alain H. Dawson
President/Editor-in-Chief: Steve Jackson•Chief Executive Officer: Philip Reed
Chief Operating Officer: Susan Bueno•Chief Creative Officer: Sam Mitschke
Munchkin Line Editor: Andrew Hackard•Production Manager: Sabrina Gonzalez
Production Artist: Alex Fernandez•Project Manager: Darryll Silva
Operations Manager: Randy Scheunemann•Director of Sales: Ross Jepson
Playtesters: Annie Monteith, Daniel Hodgins, Pam Heberer, Leslie Rudisill,
Tomasz Jankowski, Mark Doherty, Chaz Welker
Munchkin, Munchkin Bosses, the Munchkin characters, Warehouse 23, the pyramid logo, and the names of all
products published by Steve Jackson Games Incorporated are trademarks or registered trademarks of Steve Jackson Games
Incorporated, or used under license. Munchkin Bosses is copyright © 2021 by Steve Jackson Games Incorporated.
All rights reserved. Rules version 1.0 (September 2021).
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