Allen Calhamer, inventor of "Diplomacy", passes away

[Berzerker]

rip and thx for inventing such a simple and great game that doesn't involve luck

Boshko is at

http://forum.rpg.net/forum.php

playing Diplomacy games with a bunch of people if anyone is interested. They use weird names for the games so you'll need to search the site (I think he's Bosh there). I played one close to a year ago and the site is big so they probably still got games going.

Stab ya later

nasty game, I actually cant play it often because it degrades my soul.

[Sava]

Diplo sucks dick

It's a ****ing terrible game. He probably died of boredom.

[Berzerker]

sometimes the newbies who get a dagger in the back really hate the game

he was traumatized

[Sava]

is that gay code

[Alexander's Horse]

Diplo sucks dick

It's a ****ing terrible game. He probably died of boredom.

That post was bad it was good

[molly bloom]

Most important thing in your post... anybody that has actually played the game knows it's not hippy bull****, but a game where you must back stab to win.

A great game...

I had hours of pure enjoyment with this in my misspent youth. I'm beginning to dread Ming and I are growing strangely alike....




As Shakespeare memorably put it in Richard III-

“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face for all occasions”

which is a very useful skill in games of face-to-face Diplomacy.