Smegupoly – The Red Dwarf Boardgame.

>Jail could be The Tank

It sure could be, but I’d prefer quarantine. :-)

That’s skating ever so close to a Birds of a Feather gag.

An official Red Dwarf monopoly would be amazing. I think GNP people should talk to Monopoly people.

I think you might be better off having the property as various locations/ships seen in the series rather than just confined to the Dwarf. Community Chest cards could be called Garbage Pod and Chance could be Future Echoes (the idea being that you pay for stuff that happens to you in the future, e.g. you end up as a brain in a jar pay ?200 medical bill) actually that’s a bit crap but you could have a laugh thinking up the cards.

We have a number of versions including, The Simpsons and Star Wars, we also have one (cant recall the name) that has a global theme and you tick off places on a passport..
Clearly, the makers are able and willing to diversify somewhat if they see a profit in it..
There is also somewhere in the house, a PC Star Wars version, which is extremely slow..

Powerpuff Girls (I kid you not) editions

Oooh, I’d never heard about this! Fantastic!

*googles*

I want.

Ooooh special rule. Every time you roll a 5 and 2 you can move to the square of your choosing ;-)

I honestly think this is a really good idea for GNP to get in on this.

There could be a competition for submissions into the contents of the Chance cards and Community chest. I’m sure fans would love to know that their submissions ended up in the actual game. Even the locations would be fan-submitted! You wouldn’t have to lift a finger.

Mostly….

Do the locations have to be ON Red Dwarf or would it be places that have appeared in Red Dwarf:

SSS Esperanto,
Justice World,
SS Centauri,
Io,
Miranda,
Mimas,
Garbage World, would be Old Kent Road.

yes? no?

Sorry for the multiple posts but they’re on seperate subjects :)

Yes Danny it was a reference.

Maybe it could be split across series so that each group of locations was linked to a series? After all we have eight colour groups. So, we start small with two series one locations – let’s say the bunk room and the drive room, then we get more extravagant with each series.

Right I’m going to list all the squares, for convenience, and chuck in some suggestions.

GO – Red Dwarf itself?
Old Kent Rd – Bunk Room
COMMUNITY CHEST – Post Pod
Whitechapel – Captain’s Office / Drive Room
INCOME TAX –
KINGS CROSS STATION – Blue Midget
Angel Islington – Series II Drive Room / Science Room
CHANCE –
Euston Road – Floor 16
Pentonville Road – Nova 5

JAIL – Quarentine
Pall Mall – Officers Quarters
ELECTRIC COMPANY – The Norweb Federation?
Whitehall – Xanadu
Northumberland Avenue – Backwards Earth Location
MARYLEBONE STATION – Starbug
Bow Street – Parrot’s Bar
COMMUNITY CHEST – Post Pod
Marlborough Street – Scanning Room
Vine Street – Waxworld

FREE PARKING – Justice World (It makes more sense it’s a neutral square)
Strand – SSS Esperanto
CHANCE –
Fleet St – Psi-Moon
Trafalgar Square – Enlightenment
FENCHURCH STREET –
Leicester Square –
Coventry Street –
Waterworks –
Piccadilly – Rimmerworld

GO TO JAIL –
Regent Street – SS Centuari
Oxford Street –
COMMUNITY CHEST – Post Pod
Bond Street –
LIVERPOOL STREET STATION –
CHANCE –
Park Lane –
SUPER TAX – Ooooh ooooh OUTLAND REVENUE!
Mayfair –

You can finish the rest of yourselves :P

I like the idea of the stations being ships, but then how would you distinguish between those ships and ships as locations? Perhaps if all the stations were JMC or Space-Corp vehicles. It makes more sense having external locations both for building and because a lot of the action takes place off-ship.

In terms of cards you want to get EVERYTHING in there. Writing a #1 hit that everyone has to buy (give you money for), the Holly Hop Drive – go directly to XXXX etc.

Also somekind of advanced rules that involve curry and drinking based shenanigans. Perhaps you could have an additional villain wandering round the board that does something horrible to you when it lands on your square.

Thought of a few more:

Shower Room (from Stasis Leak)
Disco (from Parallel Universe)
Holly’s Brain Room (from White Hole)

3 Million years from Earth, and You win a smegging Holiday in Mauritius, collect $?100

Now we’re rolling, Einstiens every one.

“You stepped on a superior technicians foot, maliciously and with intent to wound. You owe the bank ?50”

You have bought a work of art…’Smeg it’s a light switch’ pay each player $?50

You accidentally devolve Cat with the Time Wand. Pay ?20 for milk and Whiskas supplies.

You left a light on…3 million years ago. Pay all your money to Norweb.

You sell your photograph of Chloe Annett’s foaming twat. Collect ?200.

By the way, does anyone else hate it when people insist on playing stupid made-up rules in Monopoly? Like, if you land directly on Go you get ?400 instead of ?200. And I can’t count on both hands the number of arguments that have cropped up over whether you can collect rent when you’re in jail and buy property when others decline to when they land on it. What about the supposed ‘short game’ where all the cards are dealt out at the beginning. It just leads to loads of mad deals in order to get sets. You can also always guarantee that someone will smash the board up when they get bored.

I once saw a game being played with real money. They used the game notes but the deal was that you gambled your starting money, which is ?1500 (I’m not joking, they actually did play with that amount of their own money). There was a time limit of 3 hours. My cousin lost fifteen-hundred fucking quid, the idiot twat. Some other guy walked away with around ?6000.

Any programmers among us want to whip this into a computer game? I remember loads of Shareware Monopoly programs when I was younger…

Shouldn’t Diva-Droid be one of the Utilities perhaps…

Your Series 4000 Mechanoid has gone down with droid rot, pay $?200 for a new head…

I like the idea of having series related colour groups, it’s almost as if Monopoly was created for an eventual Red Dwarf version…

we have a rule that whenever someone gets fined of charged that isn’t rent, the money goes under board in the ‘kitty’ (which is actually a small cat we placed there before start of play) and if you land on free parking then you get the money, i’ve just finished a game with my nephew (who’s 17) and we ended up with ?2,825 (my nephew has a fucking eidetic memory or something for these things) and it can make or break a game.

I’m in the process of creating something at the moment, i’ll keep you posted.