About Diplomatic Immunity
Diplomatic Immunity started as a card game about the one class of people the law cannot touch, and what they do with that. You are a diplomat with a secret Goal and a criminal streak. Get rich, build a record, keep your Heat under the Limit, and when your Goal is met, book your way out of the country while everyone at the table tries to stop you.
The game is designed and published by Beckham Enterprises LLC in Vacaville, California. The rules were built in the open across twenty-six versions, each one playtested at the table and in thousands of simulated games; the design log on this site records every change and why it was made.
The online table came first so the game could find its players: it runs in any browser, plays on phones, fills empty seats with computer players, and narrates itself. A physical edition, printed through The Game Crafter, follows on Kickstarter once there is a table full of people asking for it.
The satire is aimed at the diplomat class, never at a country. No character has a nationality; everyone is from your country, which is never named.