Allen Calhamer, inventor of "Diplomacy", passes away

[Imran Siddiqui]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9925327/Allan-Calhamer.html

We should have a Diplo game in his honor

[Straybow]

The father of modern wargaming, RIP

[Hauldren Collider]

Diplo sucks dick

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

[Wiglaf]

I hope his corpse is defiled.

[giblets]

I've never played it but any game named "diplomacy" must be hippy bull**** where you cooperate with the other players instead of compete.

[Ming]

I've never played it but any game named "diplomacy" must be hippy bull**** where you cooperate with the other players instead of compete.

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...

[giblets]

You MUST backstab to win? How are you supposed to backstab someone if they already know in advance that you're going to do it?

[Ming]

That's the secret of playing the game.. Knowing when to back stab, who you can trust and when not to trust them anymore.

A classic game!

[Wiglaf]

I once played diplomacy as Turkey and invited a hot girl playing Russia over for some negotiation and banged her, then backstabbed her. With my penis

[Dinner]

That was a great game.

[Dinner]

Diplo sucks dick

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

Do you ever get tired of being wrong?

[Dinner]

I've never played it but any game named "diplomacy" must be hippy bull**** where you cooperate with the other players instead of compete.

Nope, it's all about trying to guess what everyone else is going to do. It's the best diceless game ever written.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I once played diplomacy as Turkey and invited a hot girl playing Russia over for some negotiation and banged her, then backstabbed her. With my penis

[Elok]

You MUST backstab to win? How are you supposed to backstab someone if they already know in advance that you're going to do it?

It's set in pre-WWI Europe. Seven players make secret agreements to ally, invade, promise not to invade, etc. amongst themselves. There's absolutely no mechanism to enforce any of these agreements; it's a matter of guessing each others' plans and best interests from turn to turn. Then the action phase kicks in and everybody sends armies around willy-nilly. Never played it either, but I'm told it's Machiavellian fun for the whole family.

[Dinner]

Indeed it is. There are few things better than plotting with a guy, jointing making elaborate plans for a game long alliance and then... You stab the mother****er in the back and take some of his home supply centers.