I found the game existence while searching on Wiki then I decided to play on playdiplomacy hated it, and didn't play for awhile till I found this site and now I play all the time

yea i played there too. I found the look of it rather distasteful.

My dad mentioned it to me that he used to play it in chess club when he was in high school. We were talking about risk and he had remembered that he enjoyed playing a game called Diplomacy then. I seen a computer version of it at a pawn shop the following week. I learned the rules and then searched for online games as playing the computer was dull, found my way here.

My Dad fished out the game one Christmas when I was about eight years old. I was too young to play but I remember watching and finding it really interesting. Every Christmas after that I'd try to persuade everyone to play but they couldn't be bothered. My search for other players led me here :)

About twenty years ago my older brother introduced me to it. Looked really neat, especially the concept of everyone moving at the same time instead of taking turns. But didn't get to play because not enough people. Then about ten years later some folks at work were playing it by email and we played a half dozen games or so before too many lost interest. Then a couple of months ago I was directed to here from a discussion on a college football message board.

Saw a friend playing it, then, three months later, with nothing to do, remembered it, looked up the rules, and started to play crappily. :p

playdiplomacy's format and such was horrid. disliked the email notification system too.

Grade 9 social studies, the topic was WW1 and my teacher was super cool and let us play for half a school year. No notes no tests just diplomacy. A group of us got really into playing, even started to play before and after school. The coolest teacher and school year ever. 15 years latter found this site and hooked once again.

Fifth grade. I had a great teacher who introduced a bunch of 10 year olds to The Hobbit (which got us hooked so that we had a reading club thoughout Jr. High and read the entire trilogy), miniature combat simulations, and Diplomacy.

There were a group of us who already played chess and were getting into D&D so he figured we had active intellects and would enjoy the games while he used them to teach a bit about military history (he also introduced us to A&A).

He used our love of dragons and sword and sorcery to introduce us to a higher quality literature. Then he used the hype for Star Wars to introduce us to Starship Troopers and Martian Chronicles, and then told us all to read 2001 over the summer.

Horrible thing is, I cannot for the life of me remember his name. I hate my memory...

I played the game Axis and allies and saw an ad for diplomacy.

actually...I did hear about it at chess club.
But it was a required activity at my school and there were some other Dip players there.

It was a Christmas Gift from our family's psychologist in 1965 who thought the game would help me be more extraverted, learn to deal with people in a more flexible manner as well as be an outlet for repressed anger. She was right on all three.

My college friends were into it, and now so am I. My only problem is stretching out these games over months; I'd love to play a good solid game one weekend with just thirty minutes or an hour per turn, maybe with a break overnight if necessary.

@ jann: one of your wins is really interesting.

the one i'm talking about is the 700pt game where the other six players all went cd at the same time and never played again. you won by draw with 12 centers in 1903. also, with the exception of one of them, they all joined the site on the same day.

point grab?

anyway, back to the topic. i was introduced to diplomacy by my neighbor's cousins who had brought it with them on a visit. we may have played for the whole week they were there. after they left, me, my bro, and my two neighbors pooled our money and got our own board. we played pretty frequently until the elder of the group went off to college. until i joined here, it had been about 20 years since my last game.

First time I played Diplomacy was on my Commodore 64 almost 20 years ago. The interface was so terrible that my eyes were sore after each game. But I liked it :)

@trip

that was a fail attempt at a Diplomacy club with my friends. We met at my house for two days,and it ended like that. it was funny. We ended up playing Mario Party. I am alot worse at Mario Party than Diplomacy,ill tell you that.

My dad was deployed to Iceland when I was 9 years old. I spent a lot of the dark winter months at the base rec center. Upstairs we had a room where we played all sorts of games, and Diplomacy was one of them. I played it on and off over the years, and eventually ran out of people with any interest in it. Hadn't played for nearly 10 years before I got a group together and brought them here very recently.

I like to play chess, backgammon,Poker, and DEFCON . And my brother told me about the game, the first time we play a one vs one variant , and then I learned Diplomacy.

@ jann: lol, no worries, i don't know what gets into me sometimes. no offense taken i hope.

I got a link from my uncle to playdiplomacy.com

We played there for a while, and then he found this site, so we played on both sites for a while.

I stopped playing there, I even left a game about to be won by me to go CD.

He stopped playing altogether, and I'm still here.

@trip
of course no offense was taken,i wouldve done the same thing.

I saw a Diplomacy game being played live (10 minute turns) at GENCON back in the mid '80s. Signed up for PBsM games (2 week turns) while I was there.

I was into board games from a very early age - my grandfather taught me chess.

My all-time favourite board game is Star Fleet Battles, with Battle Mech a close second. I also played Challenger (the club I was in had 3D hex terrain to scale to play it on too - v.expensive back then).

I still play adventure games as well; Cthulhu, Traveller and the like.

I played a couple of FtF games back in the late 80s/early 90s when I was a regular role-player/wargamer. Liked the game and the concept, but work and family got in the way. Rediscovered it through the FB app about 15 months ago, and have become (sadly) addicted..

My dad plays it by email, and it always interested me. So one day I decided to give it a go myself - after googling "online diplomacy," joining playdiplomacy.com before seeing the map and promptly leaving, I came here. I'd never played before, so my first game of diplomacy was on this website.

some friends heard about a highly intriguing "immoral" game that requires you to build trust and then back stab on your partner. we tried it at our first face to face game about 3 months ago. In my first game ever i played france and allied with england vs germany. i left england fight with germany and i moved on to take spa por and italian centers (by mistake we didnt place any italian units since we were 6 players so italy became an immediate target for austria france and turkey). i started a naval fight vs the combined forces of austria and turkey in italy which created a stalemate situation while england was fighting germany alone (germany in nap agreements with russia and austria but allied to noone). after some turns i experienced the first backstab when england stopped attacking germany and entered brest.
this was our first game when i completely trusted england (big mistake) and tried to play Napoleon fighting 2 powers alone far away from my home center. today i cant even believe i played like that.
anyway after that i googled for diplomacy sites, started playing at worldleaders at first because this site looked too pro and unfriendly. worldleaders ingame communication tools just suck so i left it and came here.
since then i ve played 40 games here and none face to face.
it's extraordinary hard to organise a 6 player game in real life...

A friend asked me to go to a game that he played in sometimes because one of their regulars couldn't make it. I had never even heard of it before then. Loved it.
Played a few times with them and then not again until I saw it on the shelf at my local hobby store. (Shout out to Dogs of Wargaming, Palm Bay, FL.)
Organized and played some full games with friends. Had to move (economy) and found this site right after playdip site (which was kinda down and wouldn't register me; their loss) and have been here since.

great thread...

Freshman year in College, one of the guys in the dorm asked me if I wanted to play "a game that JFK and Kissinger both played when THEY were in College" --- being an international relations major I said "HELL YA" havn't looked back since.

first few games in the dorms were awesome - no one knew what was going on, we had a few stabs in those early games that ended in my roommate being pissy with me for 2 weeks, and a couple borke up b/c of a stab in another game.... lol. so a lot of the kids decided the game was not good for their friendships so they stopped playing.

I continued with Cat23, a DC/Baltimore monthly FtF group, then later on diplomatic corp and then FB and finally here.

A friend has spent a year trying to organize a FtF and it has fallen through on many occasions. I downloaded the Windows game (Gasp, I'm a pirate! ^_^) I went through the tutorial to learn the rules. Started a game against computers on the hardest difficulty and won without a problem. Said screw this, uninstalled it, and a quick search online found and went directly to this site.

@Chess players - I haven't lost a game in 10 years so I haven't played in 5 years out of boredom of never finding a challenge. Someone want to help me with this ailment?

I first played at a friends place in canberra; I grew up playing risk/axis and a., and my friend thought I might enjoy it. Had a few games f2f since, played a string of games against the pc, and then found php

I keep forgetting about the PC games. During a dry spell of friends willing to play FTF, I played the old AH version on an XT with its glorious CGA graphics... cyan, mauve, black, and white... awful maps, awful AI, but I got my fix while I waited for Al Gore to invent the Internet, lol.

A year ago me and my friends played A&A sometimes, but it lasted quite long, and you'd have to wait for others to complete their turn. So, when - one way or another - I discovered Diplomacy, I was truly enthousiastic. I think I found it on the internet, because soon I was playing on playdiplomacy.com and here. After a while I left the first and have been playing here since. Last year I bought the board game, which has been used three times now xD. The salesman told me that 'this game could lose me my friends' (first time a salesman tells me not to buy things) but I don't really worry about that because me and my friends are already a bunch of threacherous bastards. Last FtF-game no one 'dared' to have an alliance, relations were constantly shifting and no one came further than eight centers, before being frustrated by others, LOL.