It feels somewhat strange to read that sentence: I ... went to university and Dip faded from my life. I wasn't the most involved of people at Uni. To some extent that was because the societies at Sheffield University in the early-80s weren't very interesting. There wasn't a Diplomacy Society... not even a board game society. And this was pre-internet effectively. In fact, it wasn't until the early-90s that I really got back into Diplomacy. At that point, I was in the early stages of my career (or what I thought would be my career) in teaching, had my own place with a loft bedroom-come-study where I did my work. One Christmas I wandered into a toy store and was perusing the board games. I spotted a copy of Diplomacy - a different box but, from the illustrations on the back, the same board and pieces. And it included a flyer about the postal hobby. Wait. What? Postal play??? If wtf had existed then, I'd have though...
A blog about the boardgame Diplomacy.