Workers' Girder! Getcher Workers Girder!
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
- You dash for growth - miss a downturn.
BigTom
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lol, PD variant of monopoly blatantly a fun idea and wouldn't be hard to do, just put a new skin on it with stuff like Firebox Cafe, TUC Congress Hall, squatted social centre (old kent road).. I dunno what else on there.. chance / community chest cards for loads of these things, and you're away. I'm going with cards though, cos it's easier to do print and play / print on demand stuff like that.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
have to ask, whats the mechanics? I see lots of dice. Its not RPG style is it? Wight Russian monsters to build your stats
BigTom
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nope, the dice are used to resolve paper sales and to work out what happens with members when groups split / at the end of a united front campaign.
Essentially, each round consists of a player starting a united front on an issue (stop the cuts, save the nhs, fight the fascists and stop the war) and other players decide whether to join that united front, start an opposing united front of their own or sit out the campaign and snipe from the sidelines.
Players call actions (paper sales, public meeting, demonstration etc) and have speakers at that action which generate more paper sales and/or attract new members to your party.
You can send disruptive speakers into events or hijack meetings entirely, you can split from groups and you can perform entryism maneuvers into larger groups then split from them in the hope of taking their members with you
Paper sales depend on dice rolls, and you use money to buy new cards (which have all the speakers and actions on them). How splits work out also depend on dice rolls.
Individual victory conditions are: 1) having the most members in your party and 2) selling the most papers. I don't know how to balance these yet, but clearly the emphasis must be on selling papers.
Collective victory condition is to get all players merged into a single party, which will lead the proletariat into glorious revolution! (I am designing this to be nearly impossible to achieve, obviously
)It's going to be a relatively fast moving fun type game probably for 4-12 players (doesn't seem to work very well with 2 or 3), rather than any kind of deepish tactical/strategy game. I think there is the space for a deeper tactical game based around the tension of individual / collective aims but having set out to make that I found a game which is different but good. Needs tidying up and I've got a few mechanics to add (gender/race balancing on the platforms definitely needs to happen)
It's good to have a lot of randomness in a game like this because it means skill differentials don't matter and tbh helps a game to be fun rather than just a mathematical calculation to work out the best way to optimise your score.
andysays
Love and solidarity
If it's to be an accurate reflection of the Trotskyist milieu that's pretty much mandatory, comrade.
Any chance of an online version?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
nope, the dice are used to resolve paper sales and to work out what happens with members when groups split / at the end of a united front campaign.
Essentially, each round consists of a player starting a united front on an issue (stop the cuts, save the nhs, fight the fascists and stop the war) and other players decide whether to join that united front, start an opposing united front of their own or sit out the campaign and snipe from the sidelines.
Players call actions (paper sales, public meeting, demonstration etc) and have speakers at that action which generate more paper sales and/or attract new members to your party.
You can send disruptive speakers into events or hijack meetings entirely, you can split from groups and you can perform entryism maneuvers into larger groups then split from them in the hope of taking their members with you
Paper sales depend on dice rolls, and you use money to buy new cards (which have all the speakers and actions on them). How splits work out also depend on dice rolls.
Individual victory conditions are: 1) having the most members in your party and 2) selling the most papers. I don't know how to balance these yet, but clearly the emphasis must be on selling papers.
Collective victory condition is to get all players merged into a single party, which will lead the proletariat into glorious revolution! (I am designing this to be nearly impossible to achieve, obviously
It's going to be a relatively fast moving fun type game probably for 4-12 players (doesn't seem to work very well with 2 or 3), rather than any kind of deepish tactical/strategy game. I think there is the space for a deeper tactical game based around the tension of individual / collective aims but having set out to make that I found a game which is different but good. Needs tidying up and I've got a few mechanics to add (gender/race balancing on the platforms definitely needs to happen)
It's good to have a lot of randomness in a game like this because it means skill differentials don't matter and tbh helps a game to be fun rather than just a mathematical calculation to work out the best way to optimise your score.
no room for the wheel of oppression?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The rev left has no truck with the bourgeois legal system. A more suitable punishment would be to form a platform , conduct a faction fight and miss three paper sales.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Hunger strike .
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
hey sandy, hey sandy
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Shouldn't that be "Go to Marxism. Go directly to Marxism. Do not pass a cashpoint. Spend £200 at the bookstall"?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Conway Hall and Quakers' Meeting House too!
A historian exposes your grandmother as one of Oswald and Diana Mosley's lovers. Pay £500 to each player as penance.
EDL members smash up Firebox after drinking mugs of Agitator. All players pay a £100 tithe for repairs.
It is revealed that you are part of the Proletarian Democracy working-class conspiracy for a Workers' Bomb. Go straight to jail. Do not expect a trial. Collect your prison blues from the screw with the bull neck and NF tattoos.
SpineyNorman
Inappropriate content removed
Your parents are exposed as being partners in a major legal firm, not miners from the Yorkshire coalfields as you have been claiming since you entered the left milieu. Lose 2000 prole points and pay £500 to move to somewhere nobody knows you to regain prolier than thou status.
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Once it's fully worked out it shouldn't be too difficult if someone wants to make an online version, I can't program though.
Sadly no, not at the moment anyway. Perhaps something for the future.
sptme
我打酱油的
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
Just out of interest, have PD had a split yet? I think it's about time for one. What factions are presently vying for dominance in the central committee? The workers demand to know.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
theres the vedge wedge iirc and then Youth Fight for Bombs but I think the latter is a front anyway. Will have to check my charts
rekil
to menny cranks
Workers Girder spring issue with hastily assembled (provisional) thatcher death cover.
Probably a bit NSFW actually.
Probably a bit NSFW actually.
rekil
to menny cranks
For a start and not counting special duties and seasonal detachments such as the Pantokommando.
Official Proletarian Democracy: Committee for the Proletarianisation of Time (OPD:CPT)
Advanced Proletarian Democracy for The Workers’ Bomb (APD – WB)
People’s Commission for the Bright Dawn of Proletarian Democracy (PCBDPD)
Proletarian Democracy (Posadist) (PD(P))
Proletarian Democracy (Provisional Fruitarian Faction) (PDPFF)
seventh bullet
sovietwave
Some, recently expelled, have taken to a strategy of electoral reform. Money to purchase the Sputnikmobile was stolen from the Workers' Bomb fighting fund.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
gosh
rekil
to menny cranks
The Davro pic was unnecessarily provocative, agreed.
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