[crawfordcomeaux]

I love this idea of bringing realism into board games like this.

I want to design a hippie anarchist postcapitalism gift economy game to transition into from choosing to stop playing Monopoly. Set the whole game up as usual, but add Jubilee (holiday of forgiving all debt and redistributing wealth) to top of community chest & General Strike (everyone stops working and paying bills) to chance below the top card (to give Monopoly a second chance to redeem itself? :P ), and then start playing the gift economy game.

[Zenst]

Oh you could just use Monopoly and change the community and chance cards by making your own. For example a chance card that can turn the spot you are on into a nature reserve - whoever owns that location. Then anybody landing on that would have to forfeit one of their locations to also be a nature reserve. Then change the definition of winning by whoever has the least money left after the whole board is a nature reserve.

So can modify existing games by changing the rules and adding a few homemade cards of your own making.

Not sure what the market for mod kits for existing board games is like or even if one exists, but if you come up with something that your friends enjoy, maybe a kickstart opportunity and worst case, you will have some fun.

[crawfordcomeaux]

I'd rather design it so it's something anyone can play without having access to money for it. I love the idea of getting people to give up land, though I'd probably make it voluntary. Are you familiar with nomics?