Munchkin Second Edition (D-) Baiting The Switch! Kickstarter Critique Review

About Munchkin: Second Edition, from BoardGameGeek:

25 Years of Kicking Down Doors and Backstabbing Your Buddies! After 25 years of kicking down doors and battling monsters, a Second Edition of Munchkin is here! We kept your favorite jokes and monsters – and added more! This edition feels the same, but it plays faster, and the setup is simpler. A new game mechanic – Gold Pieces – allows players to get change when selling Items and to micro-bribe their friends. Reference cards for each player have been added, so no more fighting for the rulebook – unless you just want to. All the illustrations – including the box, gameboard, and cards – have been updated by Munchkin's original artist, John Kovalic. And the best part? It's backward-compatible, and guidelines for using cards from your First Edition collection are included! Grab your friends (or enemies), because it's time to kick down some doors! What's new in Second Edition Not only is there a ton of new art, Second Edition has redesigned cards, actual coins, fast setup rules, and more! New Illustrations and Card Designs New Icons Icons! Icons! Icons! You told us that icons would make the cards easier to read. We listened. Here's the chart from the rulebook. Updated Card Backs Full-color card backs! The card backs echo the background color of the card types - blue for Doors, yellow for Treasures -, making them easier to sort no matter which side is up. Spiffy Gameboard A Fresh Coat of Paint! John Kovalic redrew the gameboard, where you'll start at the top and progress down toward that pile of loot at Level 10! Player Reference Cards Munchkin Second Edition includes six player reference cards - one for each player color - so you can look across the table and see who is playing which color. This also means you won't have to open the rulebook as often. New Mechanic: Coins Real (fake) Gold Pieces Now you can get change when you sell an Item (which lets you level up a bit faster, which speeds the game). Coins can also be used to bribe other players - and even to level up. Add some coins to your next trade deal. Or hoard them. We know you want to! New Setup Rules Set up the game and Kick Down The Door faster than ever before! After choosing your player color, shuffle the marked Starting Cards. Deal one Door and two Treasures to each player. Shuffle the leftover starting cards into their respective decks, and give five 100 Gold Piece coins to each player. Everyone starts off at comparable strengths, ready to kill (small) monsters right away. New & Updated Phases Listening just got more lucrative! When you Listen at the door at the start of your turn, take one coin (100 Gold Pieces) and Draw one card from either the Door or Treasure deck, face down, and put it in your hand before you Kick Down The Door. After the hard work is done, it's time to Loot The Room. And rather than drawing a card from the Treasure deck, a munchkin may roll the die and take that many Coins. Queue up that Loaded Die to maximize your return! Updated Win Condition Who said you had to do it alone? Munchkin Second Edition introduces an updated way to win! If you're going for Level 10, you may ask any one player to help you. If you win the combat, you share the victory – regardless of the helper's level, Role, or anything else. (But you don't HAVE to ask for help, if you think you can beat everyone else at once.) This set is packed with rules tweaks to make it faster, clearer, and more exciting, with even more mayhem in the race to win! CONTENTS 150 Cards 6 Double-Sized Reference Cards 48 Coins 1 Custom Die Gameboard 6 Standees w/ bases Rules Upgrade Guide