Yes that sounds like a good idea, Scout. So who is going to design it?
The Winning Monopoly Strategy?
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Yes that sounds like a good idea, Scout. So who is going to design it?
You know there are those Make-Your-Own-Opoly games out there for only about $20. My sisters and I made one for our family several years ago as a Christmas gift. We put our faces on the money. 
I always thought of the Community Chest cards as an event brought upon by TPTB, while Chance cards were purely random events. Perhaps "Chance" could be Q-cards, and Community Chest become "Starfleet Command orders" or something.
And instead of "Go", you "Make It So!"
In a now legendary game (amongst the four involved anyway) one of my friends was very cocky about his successes early in the game. Thus was born Tri-Corp. Tri-Corp was very good to its investors. We never paid for anything at Tri-Corp owned services or developments. Once the competition was driven out, the Tri-Corp board of directors retired content in their harmonious triumvirate control of the board.
And instead of "Go", you "Make It So!"
Go could be SFHQ.
Jail could be the brig.
Free parking could be shore leave.
Goto jail could be the neutral zone, which you're not supposed to enter, hence you do time in the brig for trespassing there.
Next we'd have to decide the planet sets. The ally home worlds, (eg Vulcan), or neutrals?
I always thought of Jail as Sickbay, the one place where the average starship captain always wants to avoid being confined...And instead of "Go", you "Make It So!"
Go could be SFHQ.
Jail could be the brig.
Free parking could be shore leave.
Goto jail could be the neutral zone, which you're not supposed to enter, hence you do time in the brig for trespassing there.
Thinking about this today, I wondered if each side of the board could represent a quadrant, starting with the Gamma Quadrant, then Delta, Beta, and finally Alpha. Then I thought it was a silly idea, and thought a "let's stick with planets of increasing worth" model would be better. Say, Nimbus III as Old Kent Road and Earth/Bajor sectors as the dark blues (Cardassia Prime, Qo'noS and Romulus being the Greens)...
Yeah we play that rule a lot. Personally I think it's a silly rule, but heck, I end up combining this with going to jail a lot to get there. I call it the Jeffrey Archer strategy.
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My dad's winning Monopoly strategy was getting mad and throwing the board across the room.
Huh... My Dad's winning Monopoly strategy was getting other people to get mad and throw the board across the room. I bet no one plays with either of them. That kind of ended though when my uncle made him a custom board on a 3'x3' piece of plywood. Oh yeah, that's the board the Tri-Corp game took place on.
Excellent! Does the game have Indi characters as your gaming piece? Oh make it fancy dress
. And have nibbles of snake and eyeballs. Or drink snakebites! Oh and anyone sporting a whip gets a 100 bonus, anyone arriving by rope bridge gets 500. We've got the Pokemon edition - I always get to be Jiggly Puff, doesn't go very well with the Klingon image thou
I haven't opened it yet, but goin' from the box, the game pieces are fedora hat, whip, mine car, grail diary, holy grail and crystal skull. Instead of houses & hotels, there's fertility idols (32) and arks of the convenant (12).
As for the rest, not sure how that would work...one of the friends is hardcore vegan - so much so that she brings her own food every time she hangs out.
Could still dress up though? Gotta get into the spirit of it!
If there was a missing piece, would that necessitate a search for the Holy Grail or the lost Ark?
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