From Extreme Christian Right Gaming comes the latest in Christian board games - Theopoly.
Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist participated in a telecast on April 24th that featured Evangelicals like Dr. James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, and Chuck Colson. Focus on the Family has also been running political ads to stop the judicial filibustering and Senator Ken Salazar accused Focus on the Family of wanting to "set up a theocracy."
This charge of imposing a theocracy is being increasingly made. Now that the Left is on to us that we want to impose a theocracy, why not be above board about it and play a board game proclaiming the fact.
Obviously with Christians participating in the political sphere this is proof that we want to take over the Country and rule it based on religious faith. Of course the Christian right is composed of hundreds of different Christian denominations with different ideas of what best to impose on the rest of the country, but we will cross that bridge once we take over.
In the meantime, own the latest craze in full force Christian gaming.
OBJECT...The object of Theopoly is to take over all the courts. The winner gets to impose a theocracy on the nation!
EQUIPMENT...The equipment consists of a board, 2 dice, tokens (no idols) such as a popemobile, chapel, and Ten Commandments, 32 appeals courts and 12 Supreme Court Justices. There are Dis/Grace and Christian Charity cards and 1.5 million in PAC money.
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527 Group Accountant...Select as Accountant a player who will manages the money for each players advertisement budget. If the Accountant plays in the game, he must keep his personal funds separate from those of the 527 group and is not allowed to coordinate with political campaigns.
THE PLAY... Starting with the Accountant, each player in turn throws lots. The player with the highest total or most political capital starts the play. He places his token on the corner marked "Go Pray", throws the 2 dice to cast lots just like the Apostles did to select Matthias. They then move the token in the direction of the arrow the number of spaces indicated by the lots. After he has completed his play, the turn to play passes to the right (moving to the left must be rigorously avoided). The tokens remain on the spaces occupied and proceed from that point on the player's next turn. Two or more tokens may rest on the same space at the same time.
According to the district court his token reaches, a player may be entitled to lobby legislators to get a judge through confirmation or spend money to buy ads to influence the public. If they land on a Dis/Grace square they must pick a card. Some cards give grace -some disgrace. For example:
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If a player lands on the "Go to Hell' square they they must move their token to the Hell square. They can not move from this square until they have shown repentance by throwing two threes - the
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