Fantasy Congress

[Prudence]

Fantasy Football not your thing? Why not give Fantasy Congress a try!

You join a league, draft your players, and your players are "scored" by pushing bills through the various stages.

The seven basic stages through which your MCs must push legislation - and by which earn their points - are as follows:

1. Introduction in their Chamber (House or Senate)
2. Approval by Committee
3. Vote on the Floor of their Chamber
4. Introduction in the opposite Chamber
5. Approval by Committee in opposite Chamber
6. Vote on the Floor of opposite Chamber
7. President's Signature

Any interest in a LoT league?

[LSPoorEeyorick]

That's effin' hilarious.

[Alex]

So this is a "stereotypical liberal" version of the game where value is accrued simply by trying to create new laws regardless of real world need, value, or success?

In the Libertarian version your candidate accumulates points for:

1) Managing to get a press mention during your campaign.
2) Managing to get a press mention during your campaign and it isn't because you are bat**** insane.
3) Taking a stand and opposing legislation with outcomes you support but that by itself isn't good enough reason to do it.
4) Creating obviously stupid legislation but tricking your fellow legislators into supporting it because it has a nifty title.
5) Convincing one person that Ayn Rand was not the originator of Libertarianism.
6) Driving around with a bumper sticker that says "It's not my fault, you voted for those other guys."

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

So this is a "stereotypical liberal" version of the game where value is accrued simply by trying to create new laws regardless of real world need, value, or success?

Bwahaha, visual Alex mojo.

My "real world" fantasy league would include points for lobbyist gifts, logrolling, blackmail, getting elected saying you'll do one thing and doing another, brownnosing, scoring with interns/pages/other vulnerable hirees, persecuting others a la McCarthyism, and everything else that should not exist but does and has more bearing on everything than the things the above league includes. Of course I wouldn't play this game, the same way I don't discuss politics.

My "fantasy" fantasy league would just be too out there, I suppose.

[Tramspotter]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

5) Convincing one person that Ayn Rand was not the originator of Libertarianism.

Of course not she did not in fact even like Libratarianism and was the originator of Objectivism

But I don't count as I was already convinced.