14, in boys only school. born and living in auckland, new zealand.

Martin of Hong Kong, 19 years old, a first year law student in university.
The only kid in the family, meh.
Love music and sports, and mostly play as a goalkeeper in soccer matches :p

Rob from Chicago, Illinois. Married, no kids, one dog. Work as a civil engineer field inspector. 2 older brothers. Been playing baseball nearly my entire life, still playing in a men's summer league for fun

Ryan, thirty-something from Ohio, USA.
Spent a good part of my life travelling and getting smart, now I'm back in school getting dumb. I'm a musician and composer looking for patronage, playing diplomacy in the meantime. Nice to meet everybody.

Victor, 16, German...brother and sister, German father Russian mother...still in school :)

@g*d: The visiting high priest editorial side at the cartoon said to me decades ago that I had never Left the campus. Taught Latin at a preparatory school, rang bells in a university tower for pin money, saw the Riga Circus perform in Kiev while the Soviets held onto war-ravaged Ukrainians and barely fed them ... so it goes. Oh, I did see Kurt Vonnegut once on stage at a cathedral memorial service for the editor of the Paris Review. On my short list to-do: Sirens of Titan serving me big booster breakfast; get Laid sooner; someday work for a Living; finish the Iliad (If you haven't finished Shakespeare's Lear, you'll never die, as the Hungarian toast goes. Cheers
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Jacob, 21 year old student from Kansas, USA. Studying engineering, started playing diplomacy a month or so ago

Hey, my name is Charles (Talleyrand is my last name), I'm from Paris and I'm 259 years old.

I was ordained as a priest in my twenties, and later a bishop even though I wasn't much of a believer. I'm a womanizer and a classy conversationalist.

I worked for Napoleon as an awesome diplomat before betraying the hell out of that guy. Later, even though France lost, I negotiated a near-return to pre-war boundaries. Pretty sick.

More recently I have spent quite a while being dead. :(

@Talleyrandy: M'sieur, kindly explain your work for the Revolution what you did during the Terror and your support by the Bourbons. BTW, Ur Last surviving kinsman was a Parisian woman who was so wealthy she had to leave her Jay Gould estate buildings and grounds on the Hudson River to the public. And she left a bundle to her pet poodle.

Ethan, 19 year old archaeologist in training from Indiana, USA . Two sisters, 3 nephews and 4 nieces. I also know a great number of engineers in training but that is the hazard of being a Purdue student lol. Been playing diplomacy for almost 3 years now originally on Facebook, spent like a week on webdip before moving to olidip, so I moved over here when oli set up the new site

Teresa. Age, none of your business :-). I am married with two kids(Ashley being my girl) and a dog. I am a Mechanical Engineer at a local company near Syracuse, NY. I have been playing diplomacy since I was 13...a long time now that I think about it(sob).

Pete. Age 18, come the end of summer ill be 19. I'm a college student majoring in mechanical engineering with math and Russian minors. Live in illinois but go to school at Michigan State. Currently an intern at a medical supplies company in their project engineering department.
I was introduced to the board game by some friends in high school but we never actually finished the game. Started poking around online and found webdip but quickly migrated here for the variants :)

Hans. 17. Philippines. Accountancy at College.

Played Chess, then Game of the Generals, then Diplomacy.

Hey all, I'm Glenn, recently married to my beautiful wife Mariya whom I've know for 5 years. I work as an underwriter for Safeco insurance for the last year and some months, graduated from Seattle university with a bachelors in public affairs and minor in human resources. I'm 21 and have my house I just bought in December this last year. No kids because I don't need them for another couple years...I've been playin diplomacy since I was about 15 and love games where we can joke on global and get serious in the private chat. My father is Puerto Rican, my mother is Honduran/Palestinian. I have one twin brother who's middle name is also Glenn (my parents were creative, called me Glenn Stephen and he is Stephen Glenn). And a half sister whose name will remain a secret but has to do with a flower. I'm sitting on the bus on my way to work because it saves money, wearing black slacks and a cuffed shirt because I like to be classy sometimes....I think that's a good deal of info....

And butterhead...as Shelby is a unisex name, just so I don't keep calling you butterbaby, are you a guy or a girl? :S

Hey all -- I'm Ken Briodagh. I'm a writer for a b-2-b marketing trade magazine by day and a crime fighter/poet and fantasy novelist [more Stephen Donaldson than Tolkein] by nights and weekends. I'm married and have 2 daughters and 2 dogs. I grew up and now live again in Connecticut, but I went to college and spent many years living in Maine, near the Canadian border. Also, I'm a gigantic nerd who somehow didn't find out about Diplo until last year. I played like 2 games on Webdip and promptly bailed and have stayed here ever since. I've never played live, but I intend to do so ASAP. Live long and may the force be with the one ring to rule them all.

Alcuin is my real name - 53, been married 22 years, two stepchildren aged 29 and 36, each has a son. I work for the British Government (Department of Health) by day and by night I'm the lead singer of the Sweet Smelling Swampies and sometime singer and dulcitar player with Vaccination. I'm working on my second novel but have one novel, three screenplays and several hundred poems and lyrics still unpublished.

My real name is William, I'm 15 (16 in two weeks). I live in Minnesota (USA) with my twin brother, younger sister, and two parents. Currently in my second year of high school. I also love swimming and playing tennis competitively also playing french horn. I love Diplomacy!

Well, my name is Oliver, Age: 38, 2 children and a beautiful wife.
During daytime I have a small (15 people) company together with my father. We build artificial limbs, orthopaedic shoes for people with distorted feet, special insoles for shoes for smaller orthopaedic problems. Germany we call this "Orthopädietechnik", but I do not think there is an equivalent in the US.
After work taking care of my family takes most of my time. My boy is now 3.5 and my little girl 0.5 years old. A picture of these two is on the promo-page here: http://www.vdiplomacy.com/promo.php

I'm Emanuele (which is a male name), 42, from near Milan, Italy (but I lived in a lot of places, and I'm likely to move soon). I'm an astronomer, not married, no children.

a lot of engineers! Im Electrical

Matt from Brooklyn. I'm 36 and married. I'm a lawyer...so Yes, no soul here. I;ve been playing diplomacy since college and have enjoyed tooling around here and trying all the variants. If there's a variant you haven't tried yet, hit me up. I'm probably game.

@Oli Back in the eighties, I worked for the Disablement Services Authority, which was responsible for buying artificial limbs, wheelchairs, orthotics and artificial eyes for the NHS.

@goose- I'm a guy lol

Phil, age 41, born and raised and still living in the east valley suburbs of phoenix az.

Software engineer for life, but have been managing software engineers for the last 8 years. I have a bachelors in physics, and an MBA; both from Arizona State ... Go Sun Devils!

Barack, age 51, born and raised in Kenya; I don't remember it but my birth certificate says so.

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Made me laugh, I'm not sure if you are serious or not though... Hard to tell.

He's serious, his initials are BO, afterall

No, I meant about the being born and raised in Kenya part. That could start up a shitstorm.

If he is Obama, then all us Americans should be worried considering a 50% defeat ratio from our commander-in-chief. Don't tell me he's been too busy with domestic policy.

38. Lawyer. Play diplomacy on my phone when I'm in court and/or scratching my girlfriend's dog, who is a fabulous poodle. I realize my use of the word fabulous combined with the word poodle might raise questions. Poodles really are great, though.

I have yet to meet a poodle that doesn't think it's fabulous. Neurotic is probably my word of choice however..

Under 30, electrical engineer, married no kids, southwest USA, hobbies include essentially anything with the words 'strategy board game' in it..

It makes sense, bo is his initials, and body is a white sox fan. Lol

*bo not body stupid autocorrect

46, civil insurance defense lawyer in Columbus, OH, grew up in Cincinnati then went to William & Mary and then Ohio State law, married and two kids, oldest is going to Duke next year

14, still in school in north bay Ontario (CANADA).... I love hockey and video games ( mostly shooters and RPG's) got introduced to diplomacy by my brother... Actually started playing on playdip.. Then my brother showed me webdip and vdip, now I'm active on both :)

Ken, chair of a math department at a small school in Northern California. In my forties but first played Dip on a board when I was 13 (like AG). Married, three kids (two in college), mixed-breed dog, and a wife who is far more patient with me than I deserve.

Scott, 35, hopefully entering last year of a PhD program in Economics. I live in Minneapolis. Native Texan. Two older siblings. I never met them. They both died. My father was diagnosed with terminal cancer when I was 9 months old, so not more kids after me. My dad died when I was 21 which was a more than minor miracle. Never married. No kids that I know about. No pets. I have some ethical problems with keeping living animals as play things; although, I have no problems with eating meat. Math major as an undergrad. I went to Columbia. I was actually employed for about ten years between being a self-indulgent academic parasite. Funny story....in my first job out of college, I sent my boss to federal prison. She was subject to a $110,000,000 civil fine and my direct supervisor fled the country to avoid prosecution. I've since met two people here in grad school who had somewhat similar experiences in discovering financial behavior that was ill-advised.....both of them discovered stuff on a much grander scale than what I uncovered. I also worked very briefly as a sous chef for fun and to be able to say that I had done so. My employer has since been a contestant on Top Chef. She did not win. Played Diplomacy for the first time in the Spring of 2010. Decided to give up playing in the Summer of 2012. Obviously, I still read the forums for some reason.

And we miss you gopher! Come back please!