Heurism

Greg Costikyan is an old school board game guy, author, and so forth who still posts thoughts about games, gaming and the like here. This morning he posted a wonderful essay about a play by mail (that’s snail mail kids) Diplomacy variant called Slobbovia. I remember reading a recap of a Slobbovia turn in a game zine I bought WAY back in the day (lets say ’83). This essay made me smile, made me reminisce about the old school games. The good and the bad about the way we *used* to do things. Magic.

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Oh, and the rules set is available here.