Diplomatic Immunity
A card game for 3–6 diplomats · free online

Diplomatic Immunity

You are a diplomat. You are also a criminal. Reach your secret Goal, book your way out of the country, and survive one full round of everyone at the table trying to stop you.

3 to 6 seats. Friends join on their phones with the code. Empty seats can be filled with computer players.

Want the full rules? The narrated explainer: every turn step, Heat and Scandal, Favors, Departures, a full example game, every card and character.

The castEleven archetypes, two diplomats each, plus two Trainees. Each bends one rule and pays in another. Meet them all
3–6players, best with 4–5
30–45minutes a game
Freein your browser, no account
Botsfill the empty seats
Phonesjoin with a four-letter code
A secret GoalTwelve of them, one each. Nobody knows yours until you try to leave. Heat and ScandalEvery uncovered crime adds Heat. Reach your Limit and you lose half of everything. Votes, bribes and FavorsLaws pass by a show of thumbs. Money and Favor chips change hands first. Book your DepartureNine doors out of the country. Everyone gets one full turn to stop you. Twenty-four diplomatsEach bends one rule and pays in another, with a once-per-game Signature.
One turn, three stepsHalf a minute a turn once the table has the rhythm. The turn in full
1MorningThe first player flips the round's Headline. Cool one Heat, then draw two cards from the Street or Politics decks. 2AfternoonCommit crimes one at a time, or lay low. The table reacts: a Leak adds Heat, a Tip-Off cancels the crime. Cover the big ones. 3EveningPropose a Law and the table votes, play a Maneuver, pay Hush Money, or book your Departure once your Goal is met.
Twelve GoalsOne each, taken in secret. Yours names the three doors you may leave by. All twelve
Extravagance Goal cardKingpin Goal cardSpecialist Goal cardJack of All Trades Goal cardUntouchable Goal cardNotorious Goal cardPuppet Master Goal cardVendetta Goal cardEveryone Owes Me Goal cardPillar of Society Goal cardTell-All Goal cardQuid Pro Quo Goal card
In 75 secondsA crime, the table reacts, a vote, a Departure, the standings.
The tableOn a laptop or a phone. Tap a frame to see it large.
The table in the Morning: draw a card from the Street or Politics deck A Law is proposed and the table votes A player is Departing; the table has one turn to stop them Game over: the standings
Choosing a diplomat on a phone The Morning on a phone: draw from the Street or Politics deck Reacting to a rival's crime on a phone Voting on a Law on a phone A Departure on the board, on a phone The standings on a phone
Launch newsSteam, phones and the physical edition. A few emails a year.