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Still Here!
“Well, it is five years since Richard Egan wrote that article and we are all (mostly) still here.” As opening lines go, this isn’t the most positive one could be but, given that the author of “Why Richard Was Almost Right”, Stephen Agar, shared some of Egan’s concerns, perhaps that is as good as it…
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We’re Doomed!
Private Fraser lives and breathes in all of us. If you live in North America, the chances are you won’t know what I’m talking about. Private Fraser was a character in “Dad’s Army”, a sitcom broadcast in the UK in the late 1960s and throughout most of the 1970s. I watched it as a kid. It was usually…
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Play Diplomacy Online!
It had been a while since my last dalliance with Diplomacy, but one day I thought: ‘I wonder…’ What did I wonder? ‘Is there a way to play Diplomacy on my PC?’ And there was – thanks to Hasbro’s computer game. However, I quickly realised that this was not the way to go. If ever there was a waste…
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Into the Hobbiverse
Wait! What? There was a ‘zine’ (a what?) for new players to Postal Diplomacy? I was in! In the previous post I wrote about the early days of my Diplomacy life. Face-to-face play wasn’t working for me. But here, on a flyer in a game of Diplomacy, was the key to quenching my Diplomacy thirst – playing by post! The…
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Beginnings
You never forget your first game. Well, actually, I have. But, to balance this epic failure on my behalf, I can safely say I have never forgotten my early experiences of playing Diplomacy. Face-to-face Diplomacy is a hard thing to get into. There may be some people out there who haven’t even tried to play it…
THE DIPLOMATICON 