https://dokuwiki2.diplomania2.fr/ 2026-04-23T18:00:33+00:00 https://dokuwiki2.diplomania2.fr/ https://dokuwiki2.diplomania2.fr/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-11-22T19:08:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dokuwiki2.diplomania2.fr/history:dipcon_the_early_years?rev=1763838489&do=diff The DipCon Story The Early Years By Edi Birsan and Friends For over 33 years there has been a single Diplomacy Convention that has had universal hobby recognition as the DipCon. The place in the history of gamming conventions as a whole as well as the stories of its development and experiments have often been forgotten, this essay is an attempt to recall some of those times before they fade away. text/html 2025-11-22T19:08:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dokuwiki2.diplomania2.fr/history:wdc_a_short_history?rev=1763838489&do=diff A Short History of WorldDipCon an article of Iain Bowen Origins World Dip Con started off as an idea mooted by Simon Billeness in the US zine House of Lords as an idea that Britain could host a DipCon. This idea was quickly crushed as the idea of the North American Championships ‘crossing the pond’ proved to be anathema to the majority of the contributors to HoL. However, the idea didn’t go away as many people expressed an interest in attending a convention in the United Kingdom. From there, …