• 2 Posts
  • 103 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: September 14th, 2023

help-circle



  • I think in games like Diplomacy and even Game of Thrones, you need to develop a pretty high level of trust to ally with someone which takes time and often initial acts of goodwill to grow. When that nurtured trust is betrayed it can be very jarring for some people that haven’t played a game like that before.

    One of my friend’s wives was a regular participant in our game nights. She played GoT with my game group one time and was the victim of a particularly nasty stab by one of the players towards the end of the 3-hour game.

    She uh, doesn’t join our game nights anymore :<


  • I heard one of the world’s top diplomacy players is actually plays honorably like 95% of the time. He makes deals with almost everyone early on and generally to their benefit more than his own since building repoire and trust with folks allows you a greater deal of leverage over more of the board. But that’s at the highest levels of play.

    I played a month long play by e-mail game once with some friends in college. About half of them no longer talk with me because of that game hehue.