A Board Game: The Gulch / Atlas Shrugged

Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 3 months ago to Entertainment
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khalling came up with a good idea that I think is worth expanding on. Let's see what great ideas we can come up with for a board game that follows Atlas Shrugged's theme and principals. (Is Shrugged's a word?? It's pretty hard to pronounce.)
So please contribute your ideas, for questions/tasks/etc that a player would have to answer or accomplish correctly to move forward in the game. C'mon, it'll be fun! We ARE allowed to have fun in the Gulch!

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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    you do understand that this is public domain and we are taking a risk brainstorming it here if you are serious. just thought I'd throw that out there.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    no one is bringing lawyers into the game unless they want to play it. I just don't want it to be Candyland.
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Cloak of Invisibility? No ship that small has a cloaking device..oops. wrong movie. Can you guess which one?
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No. I want to keep lawyers out of it! When it's simple, they hate it. Why do you think they want to "radically" change the Constitution? Because it's not 2,800 pages of nonsense.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The "banker"?...I thought this wasn't Monopoly? (OR Harry Potter). We could have categories of cards...Who is John Galt?....Bring guns!.... What is the root of money?.... Reason vs. Emotion........... A=A....
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    various securities. guns, safe, insurance, alarm systems-neighborhood watch-I think protections of the private variety demonstrate the value of what your holding/growing.
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You're on the $$ about protection. Hmmm. Let's see:

    Got team of lawyers? Check.
    Got connections to politicians in DC? Check
    Got nefarious connections in DC? Check
    Got the media in my pocket? Check.

    Ok, if all checked off, you should be unstoppable. Oh, that's if you want to stay on The Outside. Not suitable for The Gulch.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    maybe. let's come up with some choices and potential situations for players first. how do people design these games anyway?
    is JG also the banker? my sister in law got us this game called Railroad Tycoon or something. it was so convoluted I started reading my Kindle between moves.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    How about different levels. (Choose your level of questions/cards. Did somebody already say that?)
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I love all this brain storming going on in here! :) Nice to have a conversation without me butting in huh? :) This is great...I can't wait til I have time to sort it all out with the rest of the ideas I wrote down last night. Keep storming!!
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    exactly. and it's a choice. certain property is worth more, not unlike the whole real estate part of monopoly.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    well if you rolled over like a bug, no one would ever play with you again. upgrading your gun as you go takes the focus away from your wits. Protections should be part of the game however.
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