Hey /tg/, what system can you suggest for courtly intrigue, duels

L5R, House of the Blooded, any John Wick game.

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>>52130892
>L5R
Too much rewriting to do

>John Wick games
I am a little gunshy after what /tg/ has said about them.

>>52130925
You might as well read it to be sure. People here shit on everything.

>>52130925
Just saying, John Wick games revolve solely around courtly intrigue, seedy politics and strict etiquette.

>>52130925
Anon is right about the game themes as mentioned in >>52130956, but I agree, the prose and world is all fart huffing and self asspats about how not mainstream it is.

I would also suggest maybe looking through the archives, because there were some anons working on a ruleset/setting based on the Gentleman Bastards setting.

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>>52130870

http://www.mediafire.com/file/7j8tji2b6d72cu5/Courtesans+RPG.pdf

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>>52130956
>>52131002
>>52131726
Thanks for the imput guys. Got any pics or other suggestions?

>>52130870

There's one called "Versailles" which is explicitly set in France during the Sun King's reign. I suspect you could borrow lots of bits.

>>52130892
>any John Wick game

There are games based on John Wick? OP said "Pistols and Powdered Wigs", not "Dead dogs and Baba Yagas"

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>>52133439
Unfortunately, John Wick is also the name of a semi-prolific tabletop game designer. He's usually mechanically competent, but happens to be a terrible person.

>>52133360
>Versailles
Such a gorgeous and well done series, but the soundtrack was jarring. The only way it could be worse, would be if they swapped that synth BS with a Steve Aoki remix of an asthmatic beatboxing NSYNC covers.

I can also suggest the series "City of Vice" for gritty underworld drama, "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel" for high-society magic and the David Tennant Casanova miniseries for courtly conman hijinks.

>>52130870
This is musketeers era we're describing, yes?

Like, 1630s?

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>>52130870
>Does GURPS have a specific book like "GURPS: Pistols and Powdered Wigs"?

There's GURPS Swashbucklers, but that's for 3rd edition.

Also, pic related.

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>>52137190
>Not mentioning Social fu

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>>52130870

Honor & Intrigue.

wheel of time has good social mechanisms.

Rogue Trader fits the bill, too.

Spellbound Kingdoms a bit. Or take 7th Sea and fuck around majorly with it, or hack it to Fate or Savage Worlds, or whatever

>>52130956
I don't think House of the Blooded is a good game unfortunately

>>52133470
I don't think there's any evidence that he's actually a bad person. Bad GM, yes. Pretentious, yes. Deeply flawed designer, yes. But none of those are intrinsically terrible in terms of human-being-ness

>>52130925
His games are usually okay if you ignore his assholey tone and GM advice.

>>52135895
Op here : 1700s. Rococco/baroque

>>52133700
>Steve Aoki remix of an asthmatic beatboxing NSYNC covers.
I laughed for 10 minutes straight reading this. I will kill you last, clown.