Monsters! Is a table-top wargame which puts the player in control of one or more giant kaiju beasts. The object of
the game is to crush your opponents and destroy the structures of Stomp City. Each monster is created by spending
character points. A player can spend points on statistics such as Strength and Coordination. A player can also buy
his monster special attacks, such as atomic breath or a shocking grasp, or make his creation invulnerable to a certain
type of attack. Extra points can be gained by making a monster more vulnerable to a specific type of assault, such as
electricity. In combat, monsters can choose to do killing damage or stun damage. Stun damage is easier to inflict
and deteriorates the enemy's effectiveness in battle while killing damage is more lethal, but harder to inflict.
Diferent scenarios with set objectives are also given, such as Tag-team Monsters, King of Monster Island, and a
domination scenario where a monster tries to control as much of the map as possible.
The game comes with a large number of pre-made monsters, displaying a vast range of powers, designs and abilities.
There is the horrible result of an attempt to clone Adolf Hitler, the tele-kinetic monster Braino. A gigantic swamp
monster named Slunder. The ancient Aztec god Couatl. The horrible blob-monster RBP-7, or Ooz, who endlessly says
'absorb' following his consumption of a Star Trek convention. Most interesting of all, three monsters from Mike
Wolfer's Daikazu comic also are featured: Daikazu himself and Professor Hellbender's aquatic mutants Rhendar and
Tetralon.
The game comes with a rule book, a thing book which gives statistics for all of the pre-made monsters, a reprint
of Daikazu #1, a large double-sided map displaying both a city-scape and a tropical island, cardboard buildings, and
cardboard pieces to represent every monster featured in the game. Expansions were announced, among them a supplement
called 'Planes, Trains, and Other Edibles' and two more thing books, but to the best of my knowledge, none of these
supplements were ever actually produced.
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