Inspired by Lovedagger, I am suddenly feeling the urge to make

>>50420248
If it's a roleplaying game then be warned; players are generally not good at intrigue, they think they are but even a genius tier PC plan is only genius in context, in real life they're generally more like that Witcher 3 quest where Geralt, Lambert and Eskel get wasted.

>>50420284
This is very accurate in setting, if what little I've read about Imperial Austria is true.

>>50420248
>What's the proper procedure for inviting a fellow gentlemen to a duel of honor
You must wear weird goggles and sport a scar on one cheek. Nobody knows why.

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Interested in the culinary angle, if anyone knows what was considered good food back in the day.

Have a pic of a Habsburg prince.

>>50421215
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAT8aPK-RQ

>>50421398
Oh my. That's certainly inspirational.

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>>50421398
Not even OP, but I like this.

>>50421398
>Louis XVI ate 50 plates of meat a day
>So many nobles died while bathing after a heavy meal that most gave up on bathing altogether
I... I'm no historian, but that sounds like a fat pile of bullshit to me.

>>50420345
The goggles were introduced later to make sure you could get the appropriate scars on your cheeks without getting your eyes stabbed out.

>>50421741
Or really funny

>>50422749
This is genuinely appetizing

>>50420248
>>50420248
Sounds like a convention larp, of the social, non-boffer variety. Would probably get a lot of interest in that context.

>>50423374
What's a boffer?

>>50423833
The safety padding on the weapons.

>>50422749
While tasty looking, this all looks like peasent food, for the most part. Not super fancy noble food.

>>50420248
IIRC DH Ascension had a similar scenario. You can probably pick a couple ideas from it.

>>50421741
Be aware that when they say they 'ate a plate of meat' they mean 'picked delicately at it, eating a morsel or two before sending it away to become the focal point of a discreet servant fight over who gets to feed their family today.'

>>50426887
What was the name of the adventure?

>>50427753
Was pre-revolutionary France really as much of a decadent place as it's been made out to be? Just how much of that image is pure propaganda written by the republican winners?

>>50420248
Is this set during the Great Emu War?

>>50431634
I don't really get the connection. Austria, not Australia.

>Inspired by Lovedagger
This is when you should stop, take a deep breath, think back on it and trash the idea.

>>50430719
I don't remember, it's at the end of the Ascension book.
One Rogue Trader adventure also had various pirates eating disguting/dangerous food in an attempt to emulate high society dinners while showing how fearless they are.
The milder stuff will make you vomit everywhere if you fail an endurance test, the really impressive courses will give you tons of corruption and insanity points.

There's bits like that in a lot of adventures, i'll make a quick list.

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>>50431591
Solid question, considering so much of the period is propaganda from both sides. From "the royalty ate enough per capita to feed 50 peasants" to "the peasants were unwashed scrubs who ate stone and killed literally everybody".

>>50431591
It depe'ds on your PoV. Some nobles were pretty conservative, while others were completely decadent (google Sade). It also helps that the moral values of the time were completely different. Gilles de Rais cutting young peasant girls in his dungeon? Nobody cares. He fails to pay his debts? Captured, judged, executed.

You can read some french swashbuckling novels, it's pretty fascinating. D'artagnan raping milady and beating his servant in the three musketeers while being the epitome of french chivalry, nobles considering commoners to be subhuman in captain fracasse, and so on...

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>>50432391
>D'artagnan raping milady
Is this the infamous "rape in self-defense" rape threads constantly go on about?

>>50432391
Sade was a lonely, sexually frustrated teenager with mommy issues. He WROTE about a lot of depraved shit but by most accounts the most he actually DID was get rammed up the ass occasionally. He was a spineless coward and would never act upon 99% of the shit he fapped to.

He was basically 18th century /d/.

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>>50420294

>>50421398
The Supersizers Go Victorian and Edwardian Supersize me are also good sources for this depending on what time period you're focusing on.
Their focus is on British dining but I doubt your players will know enough about Austrian court dining to spot any inconsistencies.

>>50432410
Nope. He stalks her, disguise himself as her lover, and they have sex. Afterwards he brags about it to the lover, just to completely ruin her chances.

>>50432966
Well, he must've been one classy guy.

>No Blue Danube
/tg/ I am disappoint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDaJ7rFg66A

or how about some kaiser waltz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBLaMmxyibE

Radetzky March

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIbtOKahaVo

>>50421838
Suspiciously reasonable of Germaniggers

>>50433873
Damn, is there a classical piece Rieu didn't do just perfectly?

If you were to introduce supernatural elements into that kind of setting, which would you and how?

>>50436863
I'd be a lazy fuck and transplant some Adele Blanc-Sec-adventures to Vienna.

>>50437060
Got any details? Wikipedia is somewhat scarce

>>50437060
Alternatively, there are always Meyrink, Kafka and lesbian vampires from the east. Transsylvania was part of Austro-Hungaria back then after all.

>>50437101
Basically a somewhat butch woman is dealing with all sort of shit in Belle-Epoque Paris. Among it Satanist mass-murders (with everybody but the victims hailing from the very cream of the crop of society), ancient egyptean nuclear physicists coming back to life and being chill, giant horseshoe crabs and other prehistoric life running amok.

>>50437208
That sounds a bit extreme for what I was assuming would still feel like a pretty believable setting.

>>50438476
The series is pulpy, pretty wierd and happily oscillates between humorous and straight up horrifying, yeah.

His other book set in the period - The Arctic Marauder - has the same sort of slant. It's basically about a bunch of very dedicated mad scientists and the secret service agent that fucks with their plans because she enjoys trolling them immensely.

>>50438680
Anything subtler than that, though?

>>50439663
How about Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrel? Granted, it doesn't take place in Austria, but it does show how you introduce fantasy elements into a setting that's basically 18th century European high-society where the main concerns are fashion, the appearance of propriety and kissing up to the right duke without turning the universe on its head.

A magician is just a learned gentleman with a particular skillset.

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>>50439663
Since we're talking of franco-belgian comics:
"D", by Ayroles, is about some members of the Victorian high-society fiding themselves caught in a vampire hunt. The supernatural is pretty subtle in it.
It's really good, with a lot of interactions between characters hailing from very different schools of thought. The main character is based on Richard Francis Burton, too.
I have a major boner for Ayroles' work, so I might be biased.