Ive heard of Diplomacy variants; what are they?
Diplomacy variants are games that use the same basic rules as Diplomacy but a different map or, in some cases, altered rules. Variants can shift the game to a different historical period (ancient Rome or feudal Japan, for example), to a fictional setting (Middle-Earth or Barsoom), make the game larger or adapt it for more or fewer players, or add different types of units, money, and other special rules. Hundreds of variants are played online. Diplomacy can easily be modified to fit a game of almost any size, in almost any setting; that’s one of its great strengths. Playing a variant is a fun way to inject interesting new strategic problems into the game.
