About The Zine

Welcome to The Zine!

Allow me to take this opportunity to congratulate you on such a fine choice of reading material. You couldn't have done better, my friend. The Diplomatic Pouch Zine is working to become the pre-eminent magazine for the Diplomacy hobby. Your participation as a reader and contributor is necessary for this charter to be fullfilled. In addition to presenting some information which would be useful to even the most casual reader, this page discusses the ways in which you can -- and should -- get involved.

Legalities

Diplomacy and the Diplomacy logo are registered trademarks of Hasbro, Inc. All players of The Game should include Hasbro in their daily prayers. Without Hasbro, there would be no Diplomacy. Well, okay, that's not at all true, but we do owe a lot to Hasbro. We thank and praise Hasbro for their willingness to support the play of Diplomacy in any of a multitude of forums. On bended knee, we acknowledge their generosity in making available to us the rights to electronically reproduce and distribute maps. With humble and contrite hearts, we acknowledge that no person has a soul until they have purchased the Rules of Diplomacy from Hasbro, if not a complete gameset. We also believe that a copy of said rules should be enshrined under glass in every private household in the world. We respect the rights of Hasbro to these rules, and pledge never to violate these rights.

Publication Schedule

The Diplomatic Pouch Zine is published five times a year. These issues will be "named" the Spring Movement, Spring Retreat, Fall Movement, Fall Retreat, and Winter Adjustment issue. The submission and publication deadlines are shown below:

	Submission Deadline	Publication Date
Spring Movement Issue	March 1	March 31
Spring Retreat Issue	May 1	May 31
Fall Movement Issue	August 1	August 31
Fall Retreat Issue	October 1	October 31
Winter Adjustment Issue	December 1	December 31

This schedule is easy to remember using the following rule: the deadlines fall in every month which has 31 days but which does not begin with the letter "J."

The Adjustment issue is intended to be a larger issue than the Movement issue, while the Retreat issue may go to press without regular columns and may therefore be a smaller issue than the Movement issue.

Submitting to The Diplomatic Pouch Zine

Articles may be submitted to the Editor of The Diplomatic Pouch Zine at any time prior to the submission deadline for inclusion in the next issue of the magazine. Articles submitted in this way will be edited by the Editor only to correct misspellings and grammatical errors. Editing for content will not be done.

Submitters who wish their article to be reviewed for content should obtain from the Editor the name of one or more of the available submission editors, to whom the article should be sent for review. The names and addresses of the current submission editors are found below, and volunteers who wish to add themselves to the board of submission editors are always welcome. In rare circumstances, the Editor may exercise his reserved right to refer an article to an editor for comment and discussion before publication, but only after consulting with the author.

Submitters who wish their article to be reviewed for content anonymously should mail the article to the Editor with this request, and a single submission editor will be asked to review it and return comments to the Editor, who will in turn forward these comments to the author. Regardless of any comments made by a submission editor, an article may always be submitted using the first procedure described (that is, direct submission to the Editor for only textual editing). Submission editors are chosen by the Editor from among those leading lights of the hobby willing to offer their eye.

Articles in HTML format will be strongly preferred by the Editor, but ASCII text can be converted by the Editor by hand.

Enjoy the Zine!!