Here is my version of the 3D game board. Since Monsterpocalypse is now OOP, lots of monsters and buildings are easy to find loose of on Ebay. I bought a bunch, then built a city with FIMO on a wooden base to fit in a cardboard “suitcase” from Michael’s Craft Store. The city is somewhat similar to the standard gameboard, but now in 3D. Since it is the King of Tokyo game, but with Monpoc decorations, I called in “King of Kaiju.”
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All King of Tokyo game components fit underneath the diorama. All Monpoc buildings stand erect in top half of suitcase. Monsters do need to be carried separately.
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We play a slightly modified rule with the buildings and survival of a full turn in the city – A monster surviving a full turn in Tokyo gains a building worth an additional victory point for every previous building he has taken/destroyed. Essentially, the first time a monster survives a full turn, he gets a building worth one point (similar to gaining one point for surviving a full turn in Vanilla rules). If he later on in the game lasts another turn, the second building he gains is worth two points, then three, etc.-rather than just the continued one point per full turn in Vanilla rules. This mechanism therefore has a rapidly accelerating victory point condition for those trying to stay in the city as a strategy to win the game. (Note: the increase in value per building is only to that player—another monster surviving their first turn only gains one victory point from destroying their first building, then two etc.
Prior to this rule, my sons tended to avoid going into the city to be King of Tokyo, and would instead tend remain outside, able to heal and to buy powers that would make their monster more powerful to their neighbors whether they were in the city or not. Hence, most games ended with the brawl and slaughter of the other monsters, not a win by victory points. So the building rule provided a bonus in the game to a strategy that was underused in my house, and also gave them something tactile and Ameritrash to enjoy doing. They really love destroying the buildings and gaining pieces as they go through the city in a Rampage.
Using the Monpoc monsters required making custom King of Tokyo style cards for the game. Originally, I used the standard game monster cards, but eventually Photoshopped all the monsters I owned into Mash-ups of real cities, then colorized them to look like comics... I then mounted the printed pictures on wooden boards I made at the same scale as the original game. I’m sure cardboard would do fine, I just have a nice set of wood working tools so I tried that instead.
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If folks are interested, I could post the picture files I made of the Monpoc monsters attacking the various cities. It wouldn’t be that hard to make your own monster cards over cardboard stock.
All in all, a lot of fun. I never played Monpoc, but really liked the miniatures. I also loved playing King of Tokyo so decided to merge the two. It really has been a fun pimp to one of my favorite games…
www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1763856
All King of Tokyo game components fit underneath the diorama. All Monpoc buildings stand erect in top half of suitcase. Monsters do need to be carried separately.
www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1763862
www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1763877
www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1763863
We play a slightly modified rule with the buildings and survival of a full turn in the city – A monster surviving a full turn in Tokyo gains a building worth an additional victory point for every previous building he has taken/destroyed. Essentially, the first time a monster survives a full turn, he gets a building worth one point (similar to gaining one point for surviving a full turn in Vanilla rules). If he later on in the game lasts another turn, the second building he gains is worth two points, then three, etc.-rather than just the continued one point per full turn in Vanilla rules. This mechanism therefore has a rapidly accelerating victory point condition for those trying to stay in the city as a strategy to win the game. (Note: the increase in value per building is only to that player—another monster surviving their first turn only gains one victory point from destroying their first building, then two etc.
Prior to this rule, my sons tended to avoid going into the city to be King of Tokyo, and would instead tend remain outside, able to heal and to buy powers that would make their monster more powerful to their neighbors whether they were in the city or not. Hence, most games ended with the brawl and slaughter of the other monsters, not a win by victory points. So the building rule provided a bonus in the game to a strategy that was underused in my house, and also gave them something tactile and Ameritrash to enjoy doing. They really love destroying the buildings and gaining pieces as they go through the city in a Rampage.
Using the Monpoc monsters required making custom King of Tokyo style cards for the game. Originally, I used the standard game monster cards, but eventually Photoshopped all the monsters I owned into Mash-ups of real cities, then colorized them to look like comics... I then mounted the printed pictures on wooden boards I made at the same scale as the original game. I’m sure cardboard would do fine, I just have a nice set of wood working tools so I tried that instead.
www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1763864
www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1763865
www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1763867
If folks are interested, I could post the picture files I made of the Monpoc monsters attacking the various cities. It wouldn’t be that hard to make your own monster cards over cardboard stock.
All in all, a lot of fun. I never played Monpoc, but really liked the miniatures. I also loved playing King of Tokyo so decided to merge the two. It really has been a fun pimp to one of my favorite games…