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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 5504498" data-attributes="member: 34175">I LOVE your ideas - in fact I had a similar thought last night as I was lying in bed "trying" to sleep - I was thinking 3 phase (garage, semi-pro/bar circuit/pro touring)  however, I was thinking that the first phase would be the longer version (do you know how hard it is to get signed), semi-pro the easiest to get "off track" so to speak, and pro straight forward but with the major set-backs like you described.  Also the "win" criteria is tracked on a separate "peg board" tracker like many of the Milton Bradly games of the late 70s early 80s.  Money, records sold, fans (dark/light/neutral), with the whole thing being tracked as "chart placement".Each phase you have to have a certain number of $, Fans and a record (demo tape for garage, independent, EP for semi-pro, and chart buster for for pro).  As a nice bonus your personal tracking sheet could be a plastic covered cardboard sheet that you can use China markers on, so you can personalize it every time like so:Band Name:    FuT (since I can't get the umlauts to work)Hometown: Dingleberry, IdahoGarage Demo (check box)  $20,000 (check box)Semi-pro  Independent EP (check box)  $100,000 (check box)Pro Chart buster (check box)  $1,000,000 (check box)   Fans # (D/N/L) (check boxes)The nice things about a three part game are the board is easier to make (old style thin box cardboard with two creases (thank you MB for your game master series),  it gets harder as you go, even thought the options are fewer (thank you Parker Brothers for Payday), the concept is unique and the visual are plentiful enough that major recording acts could release their own "version" like specialized Monopoly - (Metallica - the game, AC/DC - Highway to Hell, or whatnot).</blockquote>

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