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• 1492   [rate] [review]
  This variant seeks to recreate the uncertainty of the times when the world was largely unknown, by making the majority, of the playing board unknown to the players, who have to 'discover' it gradually like the early explorers.

• 1939   [rate] [review]
  World War II Diplomacy variant.

• Africa Diplomacy   [rate] [review]
  An African Diplomacy variant, in which rather than beginning with set powers, 10 players create their own powers by placing 4 pieces each on the map before movements begin.

• Ancient Diplomacy   [rate] [review]
  The Ancient Mediterranean is a five-player Diplomacy variant based loosely on the powerful empires that dominated the Mediterranean basin during ancient history.

• Balkan   [rate] [review]
  This site provides a history of the Balkans and introduces a Diplomacy variant.

• Blind   [rate] [review]
  In Blind Diplomacy, the players are not told where all the units on the board are - only where their own units are, what is in the adjacent spaces, and what is in their own home country and the spaces adjacent to it.

• Colonial Diplomacy   [rate] [review]
  Introduction to the variant, rules variation, resources and articles.

• Diplomacy Variants   [rate] [review]
  These pages at the Diplomatic Pouch contain rules, maps, articles and general web pages for over 165 Diplomacy variants.

• Exchange   [rate] [review]
  Each player is an investor; each major power is a corporation. The Investors each try to position themselves to be richest power at the end of the game, where wealth is a measure of their total % control of the winning corporation or drawing corporations.

• Fin de Siecle   [rate] [review]
  Global diplomacy in the late 19th century.

• Global Diplomacy   [rate] [review]
  This twelve-player variant takes place on a map of the world.

• Hundred   [rate] [review]
  Homepage for the variant as sold by Stupendous Games.

• Migraine Dip   [rate] [review]
  An eight-player variant laid out on a circular map. The map is symmetric about multiple axes, with each of the eight sections having identical (in some cases mirror-image) layout, to create a highly balanced variant.

• Modern   [rate] [review]
  A ten-player variant that takes place in modern times on a modified map.

• Necromancer   [rate] [review]
  A Diplomacy variant set in Tolkien's Middle-Earth.

• South America Diplomacy Variants   [rate] [review]
  Created by Erlend "Joe" Janbu. Features maps, ongoing games, Hall of Fame, and links.

• The Machiavelli Boardgame Site   [rate] [review]
  Contains material relating to the Avalon Hill boardgame and some related games.

• The Variant Bank   [rate] [review]
  Earlier the variant part of the Diplomacy Archive, now a separate site and a top-class variant archive.

• Versailles (Europe 1929)   [rate] [review]
  Information on the variants Versailles (Europe 1929) and Factional Diplomacy.

• War in North America   [rate] [review]
  Six-player semi-historical variant that takes place in North America in 1861.

• War in the Americas   [rate] [review]
  Set in North and South America, for 10 players. Features rules, articles, and Hall of Fame.