I don't really know if it counts as a mod, sinse it's part of the game anyway.

I think there's actually a text file on how to do it that you can read using the "reader" accessary that came with win-poly.

all you do is write a plane text file with the name of each square on a sepperate line. Make certain the file's name starts with the words "monopolyboard" something like "Monopolyboardungeons and dragons, copy the file into the kitchinsink folder, and vuala!

Each board file only contains the names of the streets, railway stations and utilities, you can't rename anything else ----- unless you wentand mucked about in the actual programme I presume.
It's a nice feature, but I really do wish Jim Kitchen had included the ability to change the currency along with the board. While it's vaguely believeable to have a jale in Star wars or Lord of the Ring's monopoly (the Dungeons of Sauron?), but using dollars in those sort of settings just seems weerd to me.

Oh well, maybe Mr. Kitchen will include more customization in his next version update.

aeron,
i know one that is perfect for you,
i've played every game it has to offer, and i am writing my own game book to submit it to the website.
go to
www.ffproject.com
on this site you will find games text based, where what you decide to do at the start can mean death in the middle.
if you have had past experiences with this site, then there's a few new games on there.
but if you haven't then i suggest you start off with the small games such as
bad moon rising,
imputant peasent,
the cold heart of chaos,
midnight deep
and isle of the cyclops.
the larger ones are
hellfire,
riders of the storm,
bodies in the docks,
curse of the yeti,
trials of allebars tomb.
rebbels of the dark caverns.

enjoy!
hth.
brta

hi de,
well i got up to the white dragon fight won and died in the acid pool.
but i've completed allibars tomb though.
and the short ones too.
in my game book you'll see several of my favorite things.
1 high tech weapons,

2 settings from the ps1 doom game
3 characters and aliens from a model game called warhammer 40'000.

basically it's like shades of doom but with a more explained start.
your going to see why your team hasn't reported in a month and you find them gon and tyranids in there place.
you have to fight your way through the whole complex slaughtering tyranid troopers as you go.
it's called tyranid invasion.
as soon as it's done and my e-mail kicks in again i hope you enjoy it.
i'm also writing one called the blade of drakama.
a game where your town has been taken prisoner by the evil prince evander and taken into the chaos lands.
you must take up the role of chief blade of drakama round up re-enforcements from elves, dwarves and any other good creatures you find and attack the chaos lands.
again after i've finished it i hope you enjoy it.
brta.
archer

how do you "write" gamebooks?

hi dark empathy.
well, i don't know about concrete, i've tried to write several hundred lord of the rings style books before now, but because of long story lines and several choices i've given up or got too borred.
however, i am quite confident that as i've started tyranid invasion a game book which contains some of my own personal hobbies and likes that this one wont crumble like the others.
i am including in as many different tyranids as my knowledge knows, expect to see zone thropes and haurmagants too.
and somewhere the young adventurer may have to deal with a much bigger problem later in the book.
wink nudge.
but i won't say more here, you'll have to wait.
i am not certain if blade of drackama will develop, i'm having second thoughts.
i think instead i'll write one on a more sci-fi feel.
again, set on one of a number of games i've played.
it was called e-swat and was a sega megadrive game.
you were a secret agent or something and you had bionic implants.
the story isn't much more than that because i could never get past level 2.
but i'll base it on something like that.
sbrta
archer

cheers for the support.
i'll carry on with Tyranid invasion and just concentrate on just that one.
but i intend on doing a lot more high tech game books, the phantasy ones are alright, but i think there is more need for big guns and tanks in the ff world.
brta.

If you want spaceships you could try something based on the space side of things from Battletech. None of the mucking about with shields and some interesting ideas, like having to be positioned on la grange points to jump between systems. For those who don't know la grange points are points in a star system where the gravity from the star and planets cancels each other out to nothing, true zero g.

As for the tyranids, don't forget the carnifex and genestealers
I did have a misguided youth when I was interested in Games WOrkshop stuff, never again... Especially WH40K, it's a rip off.

dark empathy,
i have an idea, if you made your gb on the foundation of an interagalactic war then you could do a lot with it.
it is a main part of every book, so maybe you have to use your star ship to fight against mother ships and shuttle craft.
you know like
tentapod craft
armor 5
stamena 15

but that's just a suggestion, it's your own to do with as you wish.
and well, i guess your entitled to your oppinion cx2, but i've never really found 40k a "Rip off"
i don't really play the game anyway, i just set up battle scenes.
i have gone off it though, i got a load of magic warhammer, like lord of the rings stuff, and i am rather taken with that at the moment.
best reg
archer

I like the way that a British Command tower is more expensive than Germany ------ "If we can't beat them, we'll buy them!" ;D.

As reguards inter galactic war, that might be fun to do in the future, but for this book, I'd like to do something set just in tthe solar system. There's a lot of Sf set aroundinter-steller expantion,  and a few (mostly written in the 60's and 70's), that deal with colonizing the moon, Mars etc, but not half as much that deals with the in betwene bit.

there is actually a war in the book, but I won't say anything about that here.
I've changed the usual set up slightly, now as well as skill, staminaer and luck, you also have a tec stat. Failing a tec check isn't usually fatal but it can damn well help. Theres one rather nasty puzle I've got where you have to re-assemble a laser gun out of various parts, if you've missed one or two parts of the gun somewhere in he book, you might be able to cobble something together if you succeed a tec check (but the difficulty of the check increases if you've missed loads of parts).
There's not much ship combat in the book, but what there is is dealt with in the narative.I might be able to write some more this evening (assuming I can resist the temptation of Trek 2000 which I've only just perchased).

cx2,
i didn't mean to start an argument, i was simply just expressing my like for 40k, the hightech weapons and the vehicles of space marines are merely a good setting for my gamebook as i have a vaster knowledge of them than i do the medevil ones
i may do a game book dealing with goblin warriors and such, but my knowledge is very sketchy.
anyway, there is a cheat that i often use in game books online.
rather than make the wrong deccision and go and die, whenever i come to a choice, like "do you go through the left door, the center or the right"
i'll add that page to my favorites and check out all three choices.
i never did that with allebars, or riders of the storm, but hellfire and outsider are really hard.
i got all the way up to the fight with the governer in outsider, and won, with only 5 stamena left, and then what do i do?
i turn around and there's the nightshade phantom wanting to duke it out with me.
i just saved the page and logged off then, i still have the favorites link probably, with a lot of luck maybe i can trounce the git.
frown growl.
best regards
arch

hey, dark empathy, would you be interested in a streets of rage game book?
i played the game on my sega and i think that i could make a really good game book out of it.
what d'ya reckon
best reg