The Embassy

If a game's worth playing, it's worth playing to win.  And if a game's worth playing to win, it's going to involve cheats. I really don't get it in Diplomacy.  There are no prizes, other than honorary ones.  Yes, there are titles, maybe a cheap trophy or two, but nothing more.  So why cheat? Well, often, simply because it's possible.  There isn't really much of a challenge to cheating in online Diplomacy ... except the "getting away with it" aspect.  But, with sites using more sophisticated methods of detecting cheating, the chances of getting away with it are small. Multi-accounting This is when a player uses more than one online account in a game.  This might be at the start of the game, or it may be to get back into a game a player's been removed from.  It's usually not allowed. It's clear that having one player controlling multiple powers in a game isn't fair.  Those powers are never going to be competing against ea...

A variant is a game of Diplomacy where the rules or context are different from the standard game as designed by Allan B Calhamer.  There are three types of variants: context variants, map variants and rules variants. Context Variants Context variants are those games that are played with a wider context.  They may be tournament games, other scored games, or remote format  games.  These aren't often recognised as variants as such, as variants tend to be within the other two types discussed below.  But the context the game is being played in will have an impact on how some players will play the game, and so they are certainly a variation of Dip. Maybe they should be called "variations" rather than variants but does it really matter? Map Variants Diplomacy has been adapted to different maps, or boards.  Not surprising as the general idea of the game, pitting competing powers against each other in a localised region and time in history, can be adapte...