Diplomacy Games

The guys interview Baron von Powell, legendary Diplomacy variant developer of 1900, Ambition and Empire and the College of Cardinals. Plus an Around the Grounds and more. Enjoy! Intro The guys are still at Felon’s Brewery in a back-to-back session. Kaner talks beer yoga (0 mins 30 secs) Amby switches to a Felon’s IPA while Kaner sticks to the Treehouse cider (1 min 30 secs) They move onto introducing the interview with Baron von Powell (2 mins 50 secs) Interview with Baron von Powell Amby explores the nature of Baron von Powell’s name (3 mins 30 secs) Baron shares how often he has played Diplomacy (4 mins 55 secs) Baron talks about postal Diplomacy (7 mins) Amby reflects on Baron’s views about Slack after his experience during the Tournament of Time at PlayDip  (8 mins 10 secs) Baron discusses his fascination with the game going back to the 80’s (10 mins) He goes onto talk about responding to an article in 1998 in Diplomacy World about improving Classic. He goes onto discussing how this became the