On 6/7/2020 11:15 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 2:10 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On 6/7/2020 11:07 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: >>> On 6/7/20 2:03 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: >>>> Full credit: the version I played was written and GM'd by Arkady English >>>> (e was active in a couple nomics circa 2012, haven't heard from em in a >>>> while) I thought I had a copy of the old initial rules but can't find it, >>>> but pretty easy to re-write. >>>> >>>> It's really simple if you know Diplomacy: >>> >>> >>> Well this sounds really fun. I guess it's time for me to learn the rules >>> of Diplomacy... >>> >> >> Oh those are really pretty simple too, chess-level simple or simpler (with >> some edge cases that come up as you go). The hard part for most people to >> grasp is just how backstabby it really is, but I don't think Agorans will >> have trouble figuring that one out ;) >> > > Reading the discussion, there seems to be significant interest in > Diplonomic and it fulfills my basic criteria for what I was looking > for, so unless anyone has strong objections, I think I will proceed > with that for this year. I also think that Rumble and an FRC-style > activity could be fun, but we've done FRC in the past, and we can > always run intra-Birthday tournaments if we want. This coming week, > I'm going to start assembling regulations based off of previous > iterations of the Birthday Tournament and other versions of > Diplonomic, but if anyone has any strong thoughts about how Diplonomic > works best (particularly, if e's played it before), now would be a > great time to share them. >
Happy to help write if you want (and will definitely proofread), but it's pretty straightforward based on my previous email so I'm guessing you want to do the first draft? I think my only concern is that Diplomacy is pretty strict in terms of the number of players (7 is ideal, fewer than 6 doesn't really work IMO, more than 7 and you need to play on an alt map) and that has to be known before starting, so it's not as freely accessible as "anyone can join in the first 48 hours".
